Category: Yahoo
Australians getting more involved in Social Media
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Over the past year in Australia users going to social media sites and forums have increase 36.1% over the year. This means that social media usage is overtaking search engines as the most visited web destination by Australians. Facebook has benefited more of our adaption to social media. Facebook accumulated 56.4% of all social networking [...]
Yahoo Australia buys Sports Tipping Site OzTips
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Yahoo!7 – the Australian arm of Yahoo has acquired a Australian sports site OzTips.com OzTips is Australia’s largest online sports tipping sites which allows users to create private tipping competitions between friends / colleagues/ family etc. This now doubles the audience Yahoo!7 sports has. Yahoo!7 is purchasing OzTips from the parent company NextGen.Net Pty No [...]
Bing added to Opera Browser
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Microsoft has completed a deal with rival internet browser Opera, making Bing one of the default search engines in the browser search field. If you want to download the latest version of Opera 10.60 Beta goto: http://www.opera.com/browser/next/ Google will still remain as the Default search, but getting Bing infront of Opera users is a good [...]
Are we addicted to the internet?
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The internet is a tool many of us use everyday for work or personal reasons. In fact we recently celebrated the internet becoming 20 years old. Fact is the first 10 years of the internet slowly gathered new users. The last 10 years – user numbers have exploded! It is reported now 1 in 8 [...]
Nokia and Yahoo Partner
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Yahoo and Nokia have created a partnership to create cross-platform opportunities for each-other. Yahoo will become the global provider of Nokia’s Ovi e-mail and messaging system, which is available on all late model Nokia handsets. Nokia will power and use Yahoo’s popular maps service both online and on all mobile phone handsets. In 2009 Nokia [...]
Google says Microsoft is clever, smart and well funded
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It is clear as crystal the battle between Google and Microsoft (with Apple in there too) in one of the internets great rivalries. Google CEO Eric Schmidt has made comments on Microsoft’s entrance to the search market saying the software giant is ‘well-funded, smart and clever’. Google holds a high majority of the search market [...]
Yahoo and Facebook partner
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Yahoo and Facebook are forming a partnership whereby Yahoo Mail users can view their friend updates inside their Yahoo Mail account and login to Facebook. Yahoo will also enhance its Yahoo Profiles service to incorporate social media updates. Yahoo Profiles is a service whereby Yahoo users can connect with each-other and share basic information like [...]
Google crowns Facebook 1st in page views, Yahoo 2nd
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Google has recently released more internet traffic data from their Google Adplanner / DoubleClick system. According to Adplanner, Facebook is visited by 540 million people monthly – which is around 35% of the internet population. Yahoo network is visited by 490 million visitors per month – 31% of the internet population. On Facebook approximately 570 [...]
RUMOR: Google search to be replaced with Bing on iPhone
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There have been many rumors amongst tech news publishers that Bing will replace Google as the default search provider on the iPhone once OS4 is rolling out to devices globally. This is kind of expected especially considering that Google’s Android has been stealing market share from the iPhone over the last several months. Apple apparently [...]
Yahoo Buys Associated Content for $100 Million
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Yahoo has purchased Associated Content, a US media company for US$100 Million. Associated press is a media company where contributors get paid to create and submit articles, videos, stories, audio and images on any topic or subject. Currently there are over 350,000 Contributors and 60,000 subjects. This is a smart acquisition for Yahoo as they [...]
Search Engine rankings – April
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As Australian search engine data is not as freely available we look at the US market data courtesy of Neilson company. In April 9.72 billion online searches we run. Google had 65.7% market share at 6.4 billion searches. Yahoo had 13.4% market share at 1.3 billion searches. Microsoft’s Bing had 12.2% market share at 1.2 [...]
Yahoo Australia launches entertainment news site
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Yahoo Australia has launched a news service called The Hype that reports on all celebrity and entertainments news around Australia and globally. Yahoo launched a similar service in the US in 2007 called OMG which has been very successful and generating a high readership. The Australian service pulls content from Yahoo!7 Movies, Yahoo!7 Music, Yahoo!7 [...]
Yahoo creates service to share text, links, photos & videos
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Yahoo has created a new service called Meme that allows users to share text, links, photos & videos with their contact list of followers and people they follow. The service is very similar to Twitter but no doubt Yahoo will add in some extra features unique to the service. I am sure the service will [...]
Yahoo analyses iPad users behaviour
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In a recent blog post Yahoo has given some very interesting information on usage rates by iPad users looking at Yahoo media. Yahoo found that iPad usage on Yahoo Finance, Sports, News was on average, 100% higher than, ie double that of other users. Usage was for photosharing service Flickr was nearly 150% higher. It [...]
Yahoo! Messenger app for the iPhone updated
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Yahoo has updated their Yahoo! Messenger app for the iPhone so you can now chat to your Windows Live contacts through the application.
Yahoo and Samsung ink deal
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Yahoo have partnered with Samsung to distribute their services on millions of Samsung devices around the world, such as: Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Front Page, Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! Flickr, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Contacts, Yahoo! Calendar, and Yahoo! Weather. It is good to see Yahoo partnering up with mobile hardware providers, something Microsoft [...]
My name is David Cowling and I am the Founder and Chief Editor of Social Media News AUS and I also run my own 
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