My primary email is Yahoo! Mail and therefore I have been dying to see the integration of Notes, Contacts, Calendar and Mail get better (After all, it has been years since Google calendar came out with AJAX). Unfortunately, Yahoo Calendar’s new Beta, released October 8th, is not even catching up to its already far-ahead competitors.
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We’ve Sensed It. We’ve Seen The Signs. Now… It’s Happening. - The Happening (2008)
It was expected, that melting WallStreet will hurt everything in its vicinity and now it is happening in the valley. Wikia.com, a community based plateform for wikipages, has laid of 30 percent of its 43 person workforce on Monday, according to ValleyWag. [...]

Yahoo is changing it’s strategy in an attempt to woo users to it’s online properties. The Associated Press is reporting that the Sunnyvale-based company has been looking at allowing more content from other Web sites.
Yahoo plans to open up more with the first major redesign of its home page since May os 2006. The changes [...]

Yahoo and Verizon have reached an agreement to provide a Yahoo portal for customers of Verizon’s FIOS Internet and High Speed Internet services.
Verizon’s 50 Mbps (megabits per second) downstream and 20 Mbps upstream FiOS Internet connections is through the company’s all-fiber-optic network and is the fastest available in [...]

After a tumultous 6 months, it is sweet victory for Jerry Yang, CEO of Yahoo! Inc. In the annual meeting of stockholders held on 1st of Augist, Yahoo stockholders re-elected all of Yahoo!’s nominees to the Board of Directors.
Roy Bostock, Chairman of Yahoo!, said, “We now look forward to executing on our strategy and continuing [...]

Delicious’s much awaited makeover was finally launched on Thursday, making the site for storing, describing, and sharing web bookmarks; faster, easier to use, and with much better search abilities. The site, owned by Yahoo, is being re-branded from del.icio.us to delicious.com, however the old name and associated URLs will continue to work. So why new [...]

Yahoo today announced it’s financial numbers for Q2 2008. The company had revenues of $1.798 billion and operating Income - $101 million. Revenues were up 6 percent increase compared to the same period in 2007. Net income for the second quarter of 2008 was $131 million or $0.09 per diluted share compared to $161 million [...]

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Revenue of $15.84 billion for the Q4 - ending June 30, 2008, an 18% increase over the same period in 2007.
Operating income and diluted EPS for Q4 were $5.68 billion and $0.46 - growth of 42% and 48%, respectively, over the same period in 2007

$1.1 billion charge in Q4 related to the expansion of [...]

Yahoo! has announced that Yahoo! Games will offer ad-supported downloadable games from the top casual games publishers. With more than 400 ad-supported games available to users by the end of the year, Yahoo is creating new opportunities for advertisers ad well as enabling low cost and free games for users.
“In game advertising is a win-win [...]

Adobe is working with search leader’s Google and Yahoo to index dynamic Rich Internet Application’s. The SWF format is openly published and static SWF files are already indexed by search engines. However, dynamic content is currently not indexed due to the state information stored in them, which keep changing during the life time of the [...]

Sports enthusiasts have news from Yahoo to cheer about. Yahoo! Inc. has announced that the Bejing summer Olympics 2008 will be coverted through a new site from Yahoo! Sports - http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics. The site will provide up-to-the minute coverage from Yahoo! Sports’ editorial team and include videos and photos.
The online tools for sports enthusiasts include

Beijing torch [...]

Internet advertising impressions grew by 14.7% in the first quarter of 2008 when compared to the same period in 2007. Sponsored search link advertising and rich media led drove overall growth. This is good news for Google, the online search industry leader which leads the competition in sponsored search. Yahoo is a distant second with [...]

New York Times is reporting three more executives will be leaving Yahoo! shortly.  Today’s news along with recent departure of some other executives leaves Yahoo network division headless in the wake of failed Microsoft bid to acquire Yahoo.

Mr. Qi Lu is executive vice president of the search and advertising technology group. He oversaw engineering efforts [...]

In a press release today, Yahoo announced that talks between them and Microsoft have concluded. The two companies are going their own separate ways. After talks had broken down previously between Yahoo and Microsoft over the sale price for Yahoo, there was pressure from billionare investor Carl Icahn for the two companies to resume talks.
Since [...]

Yahoo issued a statement in response to the announcement by Microsoft Corporation that it is continuing to review potential transactions with Yahoo!
Yahoo confirmed with Microsoft that it is not interested in pursuing an acquisition of all of Yahoo! at this time. Yahoo! and its Board of Directors continue to consider a number [...]

Dear Jerry:
After over three months, we have reached the conclusion of the process regarding a possible combination of Microsoft and Yahoo!.
I first want to convey my personal thanks to you, your management team, and Yahoo!’s Board of Directors for your consideration of our proposal. I appreciate the time and attention all of you have given [...]

Yahoo just announced their Q108 financial results. Revenue for the quarter was $1.82 billion compared to $1.67 billion for Q107 - and increase↑ of 9%. Excluding the traffic acquisition costs, revenue for the quarter was $1.35 billion compared to $1.2 - an increase↑ of 14%
GAAP income for the quarter was $542 million. Excluding [...]