Online media firm reports sales that miss targets and cuts revenue guidance. But stock climbs after CEO discloses vital new technology is now running.
The small business and merchant marketplace is one that Web companies have long seen as a key to long-term growth of the Internet and e-commerce. Despite plunging prices for Web domains and hosting services, millions of small merchants still do not have a Web presence.

Yahoo! has started a beta trial of paid-for search results on its mobile internet service in the UK and US.
Internet giant Yahoo, lately said that it has launched a beta version of sponsored text advertising tied to mobile search in the United States and the United Kingdom, a move that gives the portal a jump on rivals Google and Microsoft.

The company introduced the new Mobile Sponsored Search product as a beta service offering advertisers text-based ads, an immediate wireless Web presence with a Yahoo-created landing page and a console to manage mobile marketing campaigns.

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 is letting web programmers get their hands on the core code for its e-mail program.

Yahoo Inc. is set to allow outsiders to create new services using the world's most popular consumer e-mail program, in the broadest move the Web has yet seen to enlist independent programmers to build a company's products for it. The availability of Yahoo's e-mail application code represents an effort to leverage the company's popular online portal and e-mail service.

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."

The Internet media company, Yahoo Inc. of late said it has struck a deal with Hewlett-Packard Co. to plant its Internet search engine on millions of computers in North America and Europe, the latest volley in a high-stakes battle with Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. In addition, Yahoo would be the default search portal when HP computers start shipping with Internet Explorer 7 later this year.

The alliance unites two companies trying to catch up to the longtime leaders in their respective fields.

Internet media giant Yahoo Inc. recently said that it had acquired Jumpcut, a site that provides simple-to-use online video-editing tools, in its latest bid to enhance its Web video services offerings.

The site, created by San Francisco-based MiraVida Media, lets users publish and remix video clips, Yahoo said on its Web site.

Internet search firm Yahoo is reported to be in talks to buy social networking website Facebook for $1bn (£527m).

Yahoo is reportedly in serious talks to acquire Facebook, a move that at least one analyst said would give the portal a needed boost in the fast-growing market for online social networks.

Web search firm’s new ad campaign will be its largest in two years; follows makeover to its home page.

As its rivals create a bigger buzz on the Internet, Yahoo Inc. is hitting television, radio, cinema and online advertising to remind people that its Web site remains on the cutting edge of technology and culture, the internet media company said in a statement.

Social Search May Be the Future of Online Search, but Is It the Future for Yahoo? The Internet is full of Answers.

The search and online portal operator will promote Yahoo! Answers with its largest advertising campaign in Britain since the dotcom boom.

Yahoo! of late announced a service that allows users to ask other people's advice, when looking for anything from a good hotel or bar to an apple pie recipe, rather than rely solely upon electronically generated search results.

Yahoo Inc. said it had signed a multi-year deal to have its search tools distributed on PCs made by Taiwan-based Acer. Yahoo is hoping the move will help its search engine and other online tools reach users long before they even log onto the Web.

"Users will definitely have customer-oriented solutions," said Acer spokesperson Alison Williams. Acer users will be able to search better, and have a more direct connection to the company's customer service department though a special link. They can also keep updated on upcoming Acer products though a unique module that distributes company news.

Portal teams with Vapps to allow Yahoo Messenger users to hold free VoIP conferences.

Yahoo Inc. is offering free group conference calling services from Vapps Inc. to the roughly 80 million users of Yahoo's instant-message and Web telephone-calling service, the companies said in a statement.

Plug-in from conference-call services and equipment firm will allow up to 500 simultaneous participants per call.

Yahoo has intensified the online battle for search engine devotees by releasing a prototype web-based e-mail service with slick online computer applications.

Web portal business Yahoo said that it integrated more features into its new Web mail client Yahoo Mail, as the portal made the beta service widely available in the United States and more than a dozen other countries.

The new version has a spiffed-up user interface and features that resemble familiar desktop applications, including drag-and-drop functionality.

New feature lets Yahoo users customize the login page to foil information-thieving phishing scams.

Yahoo Inc. lately said it is testing a sign-in seal that ensures subscribers they are visiting the Web portal and not a bogus site set-up by a phisher to steal personal information.

Phishing is one of the most common online threats. In May, just over 20,000 phishing Web sites--a record--were reported to the Anti-Phishing Working Group, the organization said. Phishing typically combines spam e-mail with fraudulent Web sites to trick people into giving up sensitive information, such as “Yahoo user ID and Password.”

Joint consumer Internet security service to help companies compete against rivals such as: Google and Microsoft.

Yahoo, in partnership with Symantec, launched an Internet security software suite dubbed Norton Internet Security and designed to protect online users from threats like viruses and spyware, the companies said in a statement.

Yahoo Inc. has recently unveiled an upgraded version of its top-ranked financial information site that features new stock charting tools, improved investor chat rooms and financial video news.

Yahoo is currently expanding the capabilities of its finance site, in a bid to expand the audience for its investor; the upgrade includes improved and more interactive tools, stock charts, among other features, to help the Internet giant maintain its status as king of the financial information websites, the Associated Press reports via the New York Post.

Motorola, the world's second-biggest maker of mobile phones, is to embed Yahoo services on tens of millions of phones.

Yahoo is extending its reach into the mobile realm by inking an agreement with wireless technology specialist Motorola that will put a variety of services, including Web search, e-mail, and personal contact lists at the fingertips of phone users.

US Internet search giant Yahoo has launched a video-sharing service in a move that it hopes will enable it to capitalize on a hot online trend being blazed by the popular young YouTube website.

The Internet media giant aims to recapture share in the fast-emerging market for viewing videos online -- the year's hottest Internet trend -- where Yahoo has lost ground over the past six months to upstart video search company YouTube.

Yahoo! is being sued for allegedly paying to trigger adverts when a dating site's name is typed into Google.

The owner of Lovecity.com accuses Yahoo!, which also runs a dating service, and three other companies, of infringing its trade marks.

Internet search titan Yahoo unveiled new "front doors" to the world with the online debut of its revamped web portal, customized for the cultures of each of its markets based on the search patterns of its 188 million users.

The redesigned page includes more interactive features that reduce the need to click through to other pages to review the weather, check e-mail, listen to music or monitor local traffic conditions.