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Sunnyvale, California -- Relentlessly striving to regain its lost glory, prominent internet portal Yahoo on Wednesday made substantial visual improvements to its image and video search functions, that will receive a boost through an alliance with Getty Images that will see up to 20,000 new photos added to web searches daily. (more…)

Sunnyvale, California -- After all the hassles Yahoo has suffered in the past month, the company is finally making moves on a legitimate plan to consolidate its resources on a handful of successful products and services crucial to its bottom line. Yahoo, last week shuttered its fledgling Livestand for iPads, in what it stated was the begging of a product clean out intended to make the floundering Internet pioneer more nimble. (more…)

Sunnyvale, California -- In bold move to regain its long lost glory in the Web navigation business, Yahoo tonight is launching Yahoo Axis, a mobile browser and search tool that adds some new twists to a crowded space.

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Sunnyvale, California -- Barely a day has passed following the news that Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is stepping down due to controversy over his resume embellishments, Yahoo Inc., on Tuesday announced Genome, a new data-intensive advertising platform designed to help marketers navigate the wilds of the “big data landscape” on the way to more precise ad targeting and personalization, at Internet Week in New York City.

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Sunnyvale, California -- In a surprising turn of events, Internet pioneer Yahoo's apparently endless leadership struggles reached another crossroads on Sunday, May 13 when the executive board terminated the brief tenure of its latest CEO Scott Thompson, after a discrepancy in his credentials, the third CEO in three years to leave the Internet company struggling to define its future and replaced him with Executive Vice President Ross Levinsohn as interim chief executive.

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Sunnyvale, California -- In an attempt to encourage more people to watch television live, Yahoo's IntoNow unveiled a major partnership with ABC on Thursday, in order to offer a second-screen sweepstakes around the final two episodes this season of the prime time show Revenge. (more…)

Sunnyvale, California -- With all the turmoil that has surrounded the once-dominant internet portal since the past several years there may still be hope for the company. Besides, chopping off 50 of its properties as new CEO Scott Thompson looks to make the popular company a litter learner and more nimble. Yahoo this week announced an expansion of its small business promotion platform, presenting them with a new marketing dashboard that is designed to allow the analyzing of website data to maintain a firm grasp on a business' exposure across social media and other promotional platforms.

 

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Sunnyvale, California -- Struggling internet pioneer Yahoo Inc. took the lid off a new slew of video programming during its Digital Content NewFront presentation in New York on Wednesday, unveiling a new web series starring veteran TV anchor Katie Couric, as well as luminaries like Tom Hanks, Anthony Zuiker, and other growing number of television and Hollywood personalities jumping into the online video world.

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Sunnyvale, California -- Open source is the crux of the development community in today's technology space where web applications is a booming segment. In order to keep pace with its rivals, Yahoo early this week announced the availability of Mojito, an open source JavaScript framework developed with Web developers in mind, which is part of its Cocktails set of offerings.

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Sunnyvale, California -- In an attempt to appease privacy advocates and consumers alike, the Internet pioneer Yahoo joins the likes of Apple, Google and Microsoft in instituting the consumer privacy technology on their Websites. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo on Thursday announced plans to implement a “Do Not Track" solution across its products by early summer. (more…)