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May. 15, 2008 at 10:09am by Barry Schwartz
How Search Engine Redirect Users To Country-Specific Sites
Yahoo just started redirecting people in the UK who are trying to reach Yahoo.com instead to its Yahoo UK web site, something that Google has done for a long time. With the change, this seemed a good time to revisit how all the major search engines may intercept people trying...
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Apr. 21, 2008 at 8:58am by Greg Sterling
China Now Number One Internet Market, Surpassing US
The Chinese Internet has surpassed the US in terms of overall users. According to BDA China (reported in USAToday), there are more than 220 million Chinese Internet users (17 percent of the population) compared with 216 in the US (71 percent). This is simply a function of the huge scale...
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Dec. 21, 2007 at 9:04am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo China Loses Case On Linking To Unlicensed Music
Yahoo! Found Guilty of Mass Copyright Infringement from TorrentFreak reports Yahoo China lost the case over linking to unlicensed music in China. Didn't they already lose the case? Well, in April they were ordered to remove those links and ordered to pay 200,000 yuan. But they then appealed that ruling...
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Nov. 29, 2007 at 11:59am by Greg Sterling
Yahoo Seeks To Boost Europe Operation With New Hire
According to the Guardian, Yahoo has named former BlackBerry and Orange executive Kristof Fahy to be vice president of marketing for Europe. Fahy is a seasoned executive facing a challenging time for Yahoo, which has properties across Europe that are performing in an uneven fashion. The article goes on to...
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Nov. 16, 2007 at 9:26am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo China Appeals Ruling To Remove Links To Unlicensed Music
Yahoo China Appeals 'Deep Link' Ruling from Billboard reports Yahoo China is appealing the ruling for Yahoo China to remove links to the unlicensed music and pay record companies $27,000 in damages. Yahoo released a statement:...
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Nov. 13, 2007 at 8:42am by Greg Sterling
Yahoo's Big Asian Mobile Push
Yahoo put out a dizzying slew of press releases today aimed at highlighting its carrier partnerships and what it claims is its mobile leadership position. The core of these releases is the announcement of nine new Asian mobile operators, adding to the company's other Asian carrier relationships. Yahoo's oneSearch will...
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Nov. 6, 2007 at 3:52pm by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang Grilled By Congress On China, Offers Apology
News.com has live blogging of the "Yahoo! Inc.'s Provision of False Information" hearing by the US House Of Representatives today. Jerry Yang, Yahoo's CEO, and Michael Callahan, Yahoo's General Counsel, stood before congress to give answers on the information the company provided to China that lead to the jailing of...
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Nov. 6, 2007 at 9:16am by Greg Sterling
Alibaba IPO Reportedly As Big As Google's
The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both report on the IPO and first day of trading for Alibaba.com. The offering was the biggest IPO by any Chinese company and raised an estimated $2 billion. The market capitalization of the company is now nearly $26 billion. Yahoo owns...
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Nov. 2, 2007 at 8:55am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo's Executive Apologizes Over Imprisonment Of Chinese Dissident
Yahoo Executive Offers Apology to Lawmakers from the Wall Street Journal reports Michael Callahan, executive vice president and general counsel of Yahoo, issued a statement apologizing for providing incorrect information to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs over the jailed Chinese reporter. Part of the statement read: I neglected to...
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Oct. 25, 2007 at 9:40am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Launches Search Assist In UK
Yahoo has informed me that they have launched Yahoo Search Assist in the UK. If you go to http://uk.search.yahoo.com/ and conduct a search, you will see the Search Assist feature: Yahoo launched this in the US earlier this month....
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Oct. 24, 2007 at 10:19am by Greg Sterling
Congress May Penalize Tech Companies That Cooperate With 'Internet Restricting' Governments
Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft are all doing business in China. There's been bad PR and even congressional hearings for Yahoo about its cooperation with the Chinese government in the country's effort to censor the Internet and crack down on dissent. Turkey and Thailand have blocked YouTube, and so on. Now...
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Oct. 23, 2007 at 8:22am by Greg Sterling
Alibaba.com Set For High Flying Chinese IPO
In what is widely expected to be the biggest technology IPO since Google and the biggest Internet IPO by a Chinese firm, Alibaba.com is ready to sell just over 850 million shares on the Hong Kong stock exchange. Those shares could fetch as much as $1.49 billion. Yahoo owns 39...
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Oct. 18, 2007 at 7:18am by Danny Sullivan
Did Dalai Lama Award Cause China To Redirect Google, Yahoo & Microsoft Search Traffic To Baidu?
Reports have been coming in that people trying to reach Google, Yahoo and Microsoft from within China or via Chinese ISPs are being redirected to Baidu. Some have accused Baidu of hijacking the traffic, but we think it's likely that China is upset with the US over the award it...
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Oct. 9, 2007 at 11:38am by Greg Sterling
Report: Yahoo To Purchase 10 Percent Or $100M Of Alibaba IPO
According to various reports, Yahoo is going to buy either a 10 percent stake or $100 million worth of the forthcoming public offering of B2B site Alibaba.com on the Hong Kong exchange. The company already owns a significant minority stake (39 percent) of Alibaba Group, the parent of Alibaba.com. It...
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Sep. 4, 2007 at 7:18pm by Greg Sterling
Yahoo Acquires Ad Network BlueLithium
This afternoon Yahoo announced that it was buying US-based ad network BlueLithium for $300 million in cash. Founded in 2004, the company has 10 offices globally and claims more unique US visitors than Google, MSN, AOL and eBay. It also claims to be the fifth largest US ad network and...
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Aug. 29, 2007 at 6:36pm by Greg Sterling
Send To (German) Car: The New Local Search Front
Google CEO Eric Schmidt said at one point that one of the reasons Google wanted to get into radio advertising was that the company couldn't reach users during the morning or afternoon commutes. That's all changing very quickly. Both Google and Yahoo have almost simultaneously announced in-car mapping and local...
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Aug. 28, 2007 at 8:56am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Asks Court To Dismiss Jailed Chinese Reporter Case
Yahoo to Court: Dismiss Torture Case from the New York Times blog reports that Yahoo is requesting that the court dismiss the lawsuit brought by jailed Chinese reporter. Chinese reporter Shi Tao was jailed and allegedly tortured by the Chinese government after Yahoo provided evidence against the reporter to the...
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Aug. 27, 2007 at 10:13am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo China & MSN China Sign Controversial "Self-Discipline Pact" With China
Yahoo!, Microsoft ink web pact with Chinese government from The Register reports Yahoo China and MSN China have signed a pact with the Chinese government that "encourages" rather than requires bloggers to identify themselves to the companies with real names, contact details and for the companies to censor material. Reporters...
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Aug. 16, 2007 at 9:05am by Barry Schwartz
Qihoo Wins Unfair Competition Suit Against Yahoo China
Qihoo lawsuit win closes chapter in dispute with China Yahoo from Interfax reports Qihoo has won an unfair competition lawsuit against Yahoo China. Yahoo China has to pay Qihoo $9,210 and post an apology on their home page....
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Jul. 19, 2007 at 11:12am by Greg Sterling
EU May Require Google To Expire Cookies Even Sooner
News.com reports on a positive but cautious response from the European Union to Google's previous announcement that it would reduce its data/cookie retention time to two years. A prominent member of the EU's Article 29 Data Protection Working Party told ZDNet that there would be discussion regarding whether Google had...
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Jun. 12, 2007 at 3:33pm by Barry Schwartz
Stockholders Vote Down Yahoo's CEO Compensation Cut & China Censorship Proposal
Yahoo shareholders defeat exec pay/perform link from Reuters reports Yahoo's shareholders have defeated proposals to cut Yahoo CEO Terry Semel's salary and to practice anti-censorship policies in China and establish a human rights committee....
