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Yahoo!, through its 40% share of Chinese search engine Alibaba.com supports one of the largest marketplaces trading in shark fins. So said the president of the Sea Shepherd Society towards the end of an interview on WebmasterRadio.FM’s RainMaker ear read more »
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George Oats is one of the personalities active in the Flickr community. While on tour jumping from country to country talking about Flickr Commons, he gets a phone call from his boss to say he got laid off. read more »
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Very,very sad.
I've been following the Yahoo! Twitter feed updates over the past hour or so from employees/ex-employees and you can see real-time tweet updates of the layoffs.

Simply go to search.twitter.com and type in "#Yahoo".

Good luck to read more »
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Should Yahoo be allowing teens to trade information on ways to get high? Yahoo does. Should it be stopped? read more »
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Stay here and get straight to my answers? For really real? read more »
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With Yahoo's CEO down, Microsoft's going for Yahoo again, but this time they are interested only in Yahoo's search business. And I guess they would be able to complete it smoothly this time.
Udpate: Just saw that Kara from Allthingsd.com says these read more »
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Yahoo! has sold Kelkoo, the European comparison-shopping service, to an unknown English private equity firm called Jamplant. Some reports say that Kelkoo was sold for under 100 million Euros. read more »
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The incoming CEO, whoever he or she is, is in a similar position as US President-elect Barack Obama — inheriting something of a mess. Yahoo has a great brand and assets but there’s less margin for error than there was before the recession kicked in read more »
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Post about Yahoo trying hard to find a buyer, at Web 2.0 Summit. read more »
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After 9 months Yahoo! is pulling the plug on Yahoo! Live.

It was interesting to watch, but with money the way it is for them right now it's an obvious cost cutting spot.. read more »
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The new web service from Yahoo, the Web analytics service is now launched and is going to be a good competitor to Google Analytics. read more »
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Now merchants can enable analytics to capture full referral data, internal search keywords, step-by-step checkout conversion rates and filter and segment all of this to find meaningful actionable insights that translate into more revenue for their s read more »
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Yahoo blatantly rips off Searchme in a recent presentation! Anybody know why, or is this a desperate cry for help? read more »
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we'll see if this unified platform is a game changer or not. read more »
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Yahoo! is a company that could offer so much more to users, but so far, it’s allowing itself to slowly implode, and that’s going to be of benefit to nobody. read more »
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Yahoo! has officially opened the doors of their social service called Buzz. This is a very well done service which you can drive traffic to a site or blog. Will this service kill Digg and other social communities? read more »
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Digg's competition is heating up -- Yahoo! Buzz has now extended its network to include more publishers, but with one catch. read more »
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I have just received a message from Yahoo Buzz saying that their Buzz service now is open to public, not limited to big bloggers as in its Beta private. If you have signed up for this, you should see the message like this read more »
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At adtech Chicago, Rebecca Paoletti, Director of Video Strategy for Yahoo!, says her company's failure with video search ads is an “across-the-board” situation for all search engines. Google, however, said that wasn’t so. Was it an large oversight b read more »
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6 easy steps to 301ing your Yahoo! store. read more »
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Yahoo who have released BOSS (Build you Own Search Engine) which allows 3rd party developers to build apon a Yahoo api and produce their own search engines. The Cuil developers spent a great deal of time, effort and money producing Cuil, so what did read more »
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Pablo Palatnik, author at Search Engine Journal, covered a really good article that explained that Yahoo!, come the end of August, will be providing their users with a way to remove advertising from their services while logged in.

I think that i read more »
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"If absurdist playwright Samuel Beckett were still alive he might be tempted to write a drama about the Microsoft and Yahoo non-merger..".

Showing remarkable precognition he already did, it was called "Waiting for Godot". read more »
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Yahoo! Inc. company reports that all proposed members of the company have been approved on the annual meeting of stockholders. Jerry Yang remained as CEO of Yahoo, while Carl Ichan became one of the members of the Board of Directors.

Roy Bostock, read more »
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After all the posturing, this is it? Have I missed something? If Yahoo had a plan to make itself more of a player, why have they waited to implement it? Was the Microsoft deal so one sided that it was actually a good idea to turn it down? Two major read more »
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