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Yahoo Right Media Exchange To Show AOL Inventory

Yahoo and AOL announced a partnership where AOL will use Yahoo’s Right Media Exchange to provide access to AOL inventory as part of the display ad agreements announced last year. “The inventory AOL makes available under the display advertising agreement…

Yahoo! Adds New Calendar: Cleaner And Easier

For those of you who care, Yahoo is updating their Calendar. Apparently Yahoo has been listening to users suggestions and is incorporating a lot of the intuitive design from Yahoo mail. Here’s an example of the new look below: The…

Super Bowl Search Stats From Yahoo: Pats Beat Giants, Eli Beats Brady

The Yahoo search blog has just released a trove of search stats regarding all things Super Bowl, and it’s clear that if the Super Bowl could be decided by search volume the New England Patriots would have this thing in…

Super Bowl Ticket Searches Up 731% At Yahoo

When last Sunday’s NFC and AFC championships concluded and the Super Bowl matchup became clear, some sports pundits and social media users wondered if people could get truly excited about a matchup that had already occurred within the last 5…

Yahoo Mobile Apps Wave Goodbye

Yahoo announced that it will no longer be supporting a number of its mobile apps. These include: Yahoo Meme (iPad/iPhone), Yahoo Mim (iPad), Yahoo Answers (Android), Yahoo AppSpot (Android/iPhone), Yahoo Deals (iPhone), Yahoo Finance (Blackberry), Yahoo Movies (Android), Yahoo News…

DMARC: Major Web Players Join Forces On Antiphishing Standards

Fifteen major companies have joined forces on a “technical working group” called DMARC to develop new standards to help reduce the threat of spam and phishing emails. DMARC stands for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance. The companies involved include:…

Google, Yahoo Form Group to Tackle Phishing

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL have joined forces to thwart purveyors of phishing — those emails that attempt to trick users into giving up personal information.
The companies, along with financial services providers Bank of America and Fidelity Investments…

Yahoo!, like Google, aims for “mobile first”; kills several apps for a cleaner slate

On the Yahoo! Search Blog, the company has announced a focus on “mobile first” and the related discontinuation of several of its mobile apps for iPad, iPhone, Android, and Blackberry, citing the fast pace of change in the mobile space. “Our plan…

Search Engines Given Code Of Practice

It looks like the copyright police are at it again. This time they are in a secret meeting with search engine companies making demand of them. In a document obtained by TorrentFreak, it has come to light that copyright holders…

Yahoo Q4 Earnings Released

Yahoo released their 4th quarter earnings today, and for the most part met expectations. They reported earnings of $0.24 per share, which amounts to no change from Q4 of 2010. Yahoo’s fourth quarter revenue declined 3% – $1.17 billion in…