Category: Yahoo
Yahoo To Purchase Tumblr For $1.1 Billion USD
There are several reports coming out of the US that the Yahoo board has approved a deal to purchase Tumblr for $1.1 Billion USD. Update: This has now been confirmed by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer via her own Tumblr blog (how nice:) This is a big move on Yahoo’s part, to purchase a stand alone [...]
Read MoreYahoo Implements Google’s Rel = Author
As I was running a few searches on Google yesterday, I noticed this interesting change for Yahoo News. It seems they have implemented Google’s Rel = Author markup on some of their news properties in the United States. Here is a pic of the search results: This is an interesting move by Yahoo, but not [...]
Read MoreMarissa Mayer is the new Yahoo CEO
Can this be right? One of Google’s top executives poached by Yahoo? It’s happened, Marissa Mayer – the former VP of Maps and Local at Google is now CEO of Yahoo Inc. This is obviously going to be a very challenging position for Marissa, no doubt one of the main reasons why she has taken this [...]
Read MoreYahoo Adds Google+1 Button to News
We saw recently Google rolled out a new +1 button for their social network, Google+. Many webmasters around the world have added this button as it can now impact search results for Google web search users, especially people who run Google searches logged in to their Google account. In an interesting move, Yahoo Australia and [...]
Read MoreYahoo Co-Founder Jerry Yang Resigns
Yahoo has announced that Jerry Yang, one of the origional Co-Founders of Yahoo over 17 years ago has resigned from Yahoo’s board of directors. Yahoo recently appointed a new CEO, Scott Thompson who was previously President of Paypal. Jerry Yang co-founded Yahoo in 1994 with Stanford friend David Filo. According to Alexa.com Yahoo is the [...]
Read MoreMicrosoft Acquire Yahoo, Take 2?
There are rumors floating around that Microsoft may be looking to make another bid to acquire Yahoo Inc. In 2008 Microsoft put forward a bid of $44 Billion, which the Yahoo management team rejected. This lead to Yahoo stock price tumbling and Jerry Yang who was CEO (and also Founder of Yahoo) was removed from [...]
Read MoreYahoo7 builds and launches new Oztips site
Over the past couple of months it seems Yahoo has had some issues with the Oztips site. I’ve had many people come to me and explain their frustration with an unreliable and inaccurate tipping service. I have been told of tipping competitions that have been ruined by Oztips providing the wrong stats about games, players [...]
Read MoreLooking back, Yahoo Australia’s purchase of OzTips
It was an interesting move around 1 year ago when Yahoo Australia purchased sports tipping website, Oztips.com. Due to Yahoo’s strong market position as a leading sporting news publication in Australia it was a strategic move to get its news users moving across and complementing their sports tipping service which can be played amongst family, [...]
Read MoreYahoo sells Delicious to YouTube Founders
Yahoo has now sold their social bookmarking service, Delicious, to YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. There has been a fair amount of speculation that Yahoo was looking to sell off Delicious as they continually withdrew resources from the Delicious project. Regardless the site continues to get high traffic (Alexa rank: 239) and it [...]
Read MoreMobile Search Market Share Statistics, April 2011 – Australia
Today let’s have a look at the Mobile Search Market share amongst the leading Search Engines being used in Australia. The 3 main search engines used in Australia are (obviously): – Google – Bing – Yahoo Here is a graph showing the current market shares: As you can see Google has over 99% of the [...]
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