Yahoo In Close Talks With AOL, Person Says San Francisco – With the twisting of events and hectic negotiations — Yahoo! Inc., trying to fend off Microsoft Corp.’s $44.6 billion acquisition offer, is on the brink of striking an agreement with America Online to combine the two struggling companies’ Internet operations, a source familiar with […]

Yahoo Buddies With Google To Fight Off Microsoft “Yahoo signs deal with Google, said to be in talks with AOL; Microsoft may bring in News Corp.” San Francisco – The Yahoo-Microsoft takeover battle took a series of dramatic turns, as Yahoo last night moved to outflank Microsoft, which is threatening to launch a hostile takeover […]

News Corp. Buys Large Stake In Utarget New York – Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. for a while now, owning Fox International Channels global online ad network, “.Fox Networks,” on Tuesday extended the chain by acquiring a majority of stake in “Utarget,” an European ad network that specializes in pop-under online video ads as part of […]

Yahoo acquires Indextools to compete with Google Analytics ? In an interesting development, Yahoo Inc, said on Wednesday that it will acquire all assets of Tensa Kft., more commonly known as IndexTools. Indextools is one of the older Web Analytics companies. It may be recalled that Google bought off Web Analytics company Urchin in 2005. […]

Former Google Exec To Lead WebTrends “After a long search of five-months, Web analytics company WebTrends Inc. has a new permanent CEO.” Portland, Ore. – WebTrends Inc., a leading provider of web analytics and online marketing solutions, has appointed former Google executive Daniel E. Stickel as its new CEO, the company announced Monday.

“Inching towards broadening its reach, Flickr if not in fact strike YouTube, Yahoo is adding videos to what has just been a photo-sharing site.” San Francisco — Yahoo Inc.’s well-known photo-sharing site is making a leap into video sharing, announced that in addition to its photo-hosting services, Flickr.com fans will begin to see more than […]

“The engine that hosts the company’s online applications suite will shortly be available by a limited number of developers, for testing their own Web services at their own pace…on Google’s servers.” San Francisco — In an exceedingly plausible move yesterday, Google Inc. took the wraps off a new hosted software platform offering developers access to […]

Imeem Scoops Up SNOCAP Music Service “What do you do when the company you bank on to help solve your copyright headaches is going to fall down? If you are Imeem and the company in question is Snocap, you buy it.” San Francisco – Imeem, the leading social media network, today disclosed the acquisition of […]

“Facebook’s 67 million users’ world wide can now chat with each other. The new functionality is being integrated gradually.” As promised, Facebook has opened up its much awaited chat and instant-messaging application this week. Although the opening is limited at this time, Inside Facebook was lucky enough to take a peek. It seems that the […]

San Francisco — The latest punch thrown in Yahoo!’s fight to stay relevant and avoid a take over by Microsoft is beginning to pull the wraps off an online advertising system that the company said would help it and its partners drive sales of graphical and other premium ads. Yahoo Inc. is releasing more-detailed plans […]