Posts Tagged ‘Yahoo’

Yahoo closes down for the holidays

Technology.am (Dec. 22, 2009) — Nearly all Yahoo employees will be off next week due to compulsory office closings–though they’ve had ever since April to figure out what to do.
It will be silence on First Avenue next week, as Yahoo shuts down for the holidays.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that Yahoo is closing [...]

Bing and Google both budding, at yahoo’s expenditure

Technology.am (Dec 16, 2009) — Even with the danger of Microsoft’s Bing, Google continues to take a larger share of the search engine market. However Bing is budding, too; it’s Yahoo that is trailing behind.
According to comScore’s November statistics (via eWeek), Google and Bing are basically having a feeding whirl on Yahoo’s vanished market share. [...]

Microsoft, Google uncover Climate Change Web Apps

Technology.am (Dec. 15, 2009) — Microsoft and Google have built Web applications intended to underline environmental problems coinciding with the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen that run through Friday.
Microsoft is functioning with the European Environmental Agency (EEA) to utilize its Bing Maps, Silverlight multimedia technology and Azure cloud platform to demonstrate how climate change is [...]

Yahoo, Microsoft confirm search contract

Technology.am (Dec. 08, 2009) — Yahoo and Microsoft have finalized their contract to install Microsoft as the private search provider for Yahoo’s network of sites, the companies announced Friday.
The deal, first reached in July, still wants to be accepted by the US government prior to it becoming official. However the companies said in October that [...]

Yahoo, Microsoft settles upon search contract

Technology.am(Dec. 05, 2009) — Yahoo and Microsoft have finalized their conformity to install Microsoft as the special search provider for Yahoo’s network of sites, the companies announced Friday. The deal, initially reached in July, still needs to be accepted by the U.S. government prior to it becomes final. But the companies said in October [...]

Yahoo brings Facebook Connect within its sites

Technology.am (Dec. 02, 2009) — Yahoo is bringing Facebook into just about each and every one of its Web sites, allowing users to keep posted to their Facebook status and share news matter with friend’s exactly from the Yahoo page.
The company announced the amalgamation of Facebook Connect across numerous key Yahoo Web sites including Mail, [...]

Drop.io Launches “Attach Large Files” on Yahoo Mail

Technology.am (Sept. 11, 2009) — NY-based file sharing service Drop.io announced a partnership with Yahoo Mail that will allow Yahoo Mail users to send attachments up to 100 MB in size through a new app named “Attach Large Files”.
Drop.io will store all your files on their cloud, so recipients can see what [...]

Yahoo introduces In-Line Play in Video Search Results

Technology.am (Aug. 27, 2009) — Users want instant gratification when searching for videos, now Yahoo has announced a larger inline video play feature, which allows users to play the videos directly on the video search results page.
The feature allows searchers to view videos directly on the search results page instead of taking them to [...]

Microsoft, Amazon and Yahoo unite against Google Book Search

Technology.am (Aug. 21, 2009) — Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon have banded together against a legal settlement between Google and the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers.
They have signed on a coalition, called Open Book Alliance that will oppose to Google’s digital book ambitions, which will also persuade a US federal judge to think [...]

Microsoft and Yahoo in 10-year Web Search Partnership

Technology.am (July 29, 2009) — Microsoft and Yahoo reached a long-awaited partnership Wednesday in a bid to challenge Google’s dominance in online search.
The focus of the deal is on sharing revenue between the two companies. Under the 10-year deal, Microsoft’s new Bing search engine will power Yahoo’s searches, while Yahoo will handle the advertising sales, [...]