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Yahoo Checkout Service Suffers Outages

It appears that Yahoo has thrown some cold water on the hot online shopping day known as Cyber Monday…

“Yahoo might not be as active in marketing their payment services as PayPal and Google Checkout are but they are still heavily used by shoppers in the US market…”

Yahoo Adds CBS News to Video Lineup

Yahoo Inc. and CBS Corp. -- have agreed to show news clips from 16 CBS stations in markets including Denver, New York and Los Angeles.
CBS and Yahoo will share advertising revenue generated by the clips, which will appear on Yahoo's news site, the companies said in a statement. Videos from CBS, the top-ranked U.S. television network, will soon appear on Yahoo.

Yahoo! Integrates with Six Apart to Provide Blogging Solution

Six Apart, a provider of weblog software, yesterday announced that Yahoo! Web Hosting is now offering its MovableType blogging software, bringing easy installation, speedy performance and full customization to businesses and independent professionals seeking to maintain high-traffic blogs on a scalable and reliable platform.

Under the agreement, Yahoo Web Hosting customers will be able to create blogs using Six Apart's MovableType software.

Yahoo Rolls Out “#HashOut” A Social Media Talk Show

Sunnyvale, California -- In a surprising move, internet pioneer Yahoo unveiled plans for an upcoming web-streamed talk show Monday that will be hosted by some notable guests, including “Lost” co-creator Damon Lindelof and journalist Maria Shriver.

Yahoo Releases Interactive Recipe, Shopping And Entertainment Search Tools

Sunnyvale, California -- Relentlessly striving to keep pace with its competitors, and as the holiday season is just round the corner, internet pioneer Yahoo is tweaking its search experience today, has revealed some new vertical search features creating a new ribbon near the top of results with photos and interactive elements for queries about recipes, shopping and entertainment searches.

Yahoo Names Time Inc. Exec “Wayne Powers” To Replace Joanne Bradford

Sunnyvale, California Amid upheaval in Yahoo's ad sales operation, and to thwart critics who continue to hound Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz for an unstable management team, the portal company has hired "Wayne Powers," a former Time Inc executive, to revive its slumping ad sales business as its North American ad sales senior vice president.

Yahoo Rolled Out Most Advanced Mobile Homepage For Hispanic Users

Sunnyvale, California -- Based on its commencement of the world's most advanced mobile homepage, Yahoo on Thursday unveiled a “Yahoo Mobile en Español,” a Spanish-language mobile homepage that is customized for the specific needs of the U.S. Hispanic subscribers, offering a highly attractive mobile Internet experience and setting a new industry standard, in a move to court the growing US Hispanic population.

This Spanish-language edition of the Yahoo Mobile home page, which is available on more than 1,900 mobile devices, also includes search services, editor-selected content and news updates.

Users can also combine their favorite content and services from across the Internet to build a personally relevant mobile experience, keeping the things they care about at their fingertips, and enhancing their ability to:

Yahoo Unloads Euro Comparison Shopping Service Kelkoo To U.K. Private-Equity Firm

Sunnyvale, Calif., -- Yahoo, that purchased European comparison-shopping site service Kelkoo for about 475 million euros ($579 million) four years ago, has reportedly disposed of its wholly owned subsidiary for less than 100 million euros to U.K. private-equity firm “Jamplant” this holiday shopping season, Kelkoo founder and former chief executive Pierre Chappaz said Friday.

Chappaz wrote about the deal (in French) on his blog but again, Yahoo has not confirmed anything yet officially.

Robert adds: Yahoo UK confirmed the sell off to us. First sign of the sell-off came when Yahoo re-tooled Kelkoo’s Grenoble, France, HQ in September as an R&D centre. Chappaz refused to name the price but said it was “below 100 million euros” - that means Yahoo makes a loss of at least 375m ($472m) euros (not including any profits in made in that time, of course). Chappaz said: “The difference is the price of management incompetence that led Yahoo’s (stock price to fall) below $9.”

New Insight Into Yahoo! Panama

New in-depth research on Yahoo’s Search Marketing system, Panama, provides interesting information that’s of benefit to marketers.

Yahoo’s new Panama search marketing platform is a vast improvement over the Internet giant’s previous system, but small advertisers have not benefited to the same degree as their large counterparts, according to an independent report.

The report, based on an analysis of 25 campaigns, was done by New York-based Reprise Media, the search marketing firm acquired in April by ad holding company Interpublic Group...