Sunnyvale, California -- Yahoo Inc.'s board of directors are busy exploring possibilities of trimming down its 40 percent stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. to about 15 percent and dispose of its 35% ownership position in Yahoo Japan, in a complex deal estimated at $17 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

Los Angeles -- It was only a matter of time, social networking website Facebook glanced at Yahoo's traffic, laughed and sped past topping off a fine year for the company and the website, as Santa bestowed the company the title of "third largest website ever".

Sunnyvale, California -- It seems like Yahoo has not done eliminating “non-core” services quite yet. “10 Million Dollars Down the Drain!” The company says it is going to shutter another popular blogging widget MyBlogLog next month, leaving more than a few people scratching their heads.

Still remember MyBlogLog? way back in 2006, it was one of the most popular social networking tool for bloggers because of one simple reason -- it allowed bloggers to put a face on their blog visitors. 

Bangalore, India -- Internet search pioneer Yahoo Inc. has acquired a 30 percent strategic stake in Chennai-based firm specializes in tele-information search service, Info Network Management Company (INMAC), for an undisclosed amount...

Yahoo! Inc. has plans to launch “Search Marketing Solutions,” with plans to launch up to six new portals in regional languages and acquire or enter into partnership with an Indian company, a company executive said.

"There are plans," Yahoo! Search marketing general manager Sandeep Deshpande said adding that there are no definite dates for launch at this stage.

Yahoo! Inc. has plans to launch “Search Marketing Solutions,” with plans to launch up to six new portals in regional languages and acquire or enter into partnership with an Indian company, a company executive said.

"There are plans," Yahoo! Search marketing general manager Sandeep Deshpande said adding that there are no definite dates for launch at this stage.

"We are looking at a lot of Indian languages for search."

Finally! It appears Yahoo Site Explorer: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com is now a reality. Yahoo gives the heads-up to everyone here on its Yahoo Search Blog.

Yahoo Site Explorer a beta search application is a place to see which pages Yahoo has indexed. After clicking Explore URL you will find the number of pages found in the Yahoo Index and also the number of in links. You can sort pages by ‘depth,’ submit URLs, and quickly export the results to CSV format...

London -- Apparently aiming to capitalize on the increasing number of mobile apps on the market, internet pioneer Yahoo on Wednesday officially unfurled an App Search engine for iPhone and Android apps, essentially a discovery engine that helps UK users navigate the 500,000-plus apps in both the App Store and Android Market and access reviews.