Category: Yahoo
RUMOR: Google search to be replaced with Bing on iPhone
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 […]
Read More | ShareYahoo Buys Associated Content for $100 Million
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 […]
Read More | ShareSearch Engine rankings – April
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 […]
Read More | ShareYahoo Australia launches entertainment news site
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 […]
Read More | ShareYahoo creates service to share text, links, photos & videos
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 […]
Read More | ShareYahoo analyses iPad users behaviour
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 […]
Read More | ShareYahoo! Messenger app for the iPhone updated
Yahoo has updated their Yahoo! Messenger app for the iPhone so you can now chat to your Windows Live contacts through the application.
Read More | ShareYahoo and Samsung ink deal
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 […]
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