IFPI has sued Yahoo China over allowing users to search for, play and download pirate music without leaving its website…

“The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) hailed a recent Chinese court ruling that held Yahoo China responsible for acts of copyright infringement in the most populous country in the world…”

New York -- The popular American Internet company Yahoo! Inc. and Latin America’s leading mobile phone company “America Movil,” announced on Thursday that they have struck a deal to provide mobile Web services to 16 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The agreement calls for Yahoo’s oneSearch service to be the default on America Movil’s wireless carriers’ portals. Yahoo is also to offer localized versions of its oneSearch service for each region, while other Yahoo services are also likely to be added in coming months.

Yahoo’s push to bolster its B2B offerings continues: It has got a new content deal with CNBC.com…

Yahoo! Finance, the most popular business news Web site, on Wednesday announced that it will begin to show about 20 video segments each day covering the current action in the market from the business news channel CNBC.

Yahoo! India has launched a new Hindi news and current affairs site with the publishers of India’s most-read newspaper and news site…

In a marriage between a popular Internet brand and a leading newspaper conglomerate, Yahoo! India and the Jagran Group have finally launched their co-branded Hindi news and current affairs web portal looking to seamlessly integrate the Hindi content of Jagran with Yahoo! India’s online presence.

The deal with Jagran Group, whose Dainik Jagran news site accounts for 80 per cent of India’s online audience, will combine news and current affairs content from the media group with Yahoo!’s messenger, mail and search features on the re-branded Jagran Yahoo! India site.

The first free U.S. in-flight e-mail and instant messaging service will launch next Tuesday aboard a JetBlue flight leaving Kennedy Airport in New York…

In a welcome first for domestic airlines, JetBlue Airways Corp., is working with Yahoo Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd., plans to be the first U.S. airline to provide free in-flight Yahoo IM and email services to passengers packing WiFi-equipped devices, starting aboard its new “BetaBlue” Airbus A320 flight that takes wing Tuesday.

Developers at Yahoo built the Messenger client for Vista with the new operating system’s capabilities in mind, particularly the look and feel of Vista…

Last night, Yahoo opened the pre-beta preview version of “Yahoo Messenger for Vista,” with graphic features that appear to be more at home in the Vista environment than with XP.

Yahoo’s Flickr has announced a partnership with Picnik.com to integrate Picnik’s online photo editing tools into Flickr…

“The services are thanks to a newly minted partnership between Yahoo and Picnik, an online start-up that specializes in Internet-based digital photo editing…”

San Francisco -- Yahoo Inc. has just added photo-editing capabilities to its popular online photo-sharing service, Flickr, which it acquired in 2005, with free editing tools aimed at the growing number of shutterbugs who want to doctor their digital pictures.

San Francisco -- Japan’s largest online auctioneer, Yahoo Japan Corp., and the world’s largest, eBay Inc. of the US, said Tuesday that they will tie-up their Internet auctions business that could see customers of each site bidding on and buying items listed on the other, in a deal that will give eBay, the American auction titan, another chance to woo Japanese consumers.

The two companies plan to set up a Japanese-language website by the end of March 2008, a site within Yahoo Japan enabling its auction users to bid on eBay-listed goods intended primarily for the North American market.

Yahoo Widgets 4.5 offers a new platform for developers and a gallery for consumers…

“In a tech era dominated by Google, Facebook and countless hyped start-ups, one way beleaguered Yahoo! plans to stay relevant is by riding the Web widget wave…”

Yahoo Inc. on Thursday introduced an upgrade of its platform for building, finding and installing desktop widgets, adding features that the portal hopes will encourage more developers to embrace the Yahoo’s take on the mini-applications...

The Monday after Thanksgiving contained a hellish several hours for Yahoo and merchants on its order fulfillment platform…

What is one of the best ways for a web-based corporation to quell a user rebellion? Obviously - A transparent recounting of the issue and a mea culpa, of course.

One very non-economic reason for small businesses perhaps receiving less of the glory after Yahoo Shopping’s meltdown on Cyber Monday comes from Yahoo; it was only a matter of time before the web portal addressed the mob of angry merchants who missed out on sales.

Dynamic ads integrated in Adobe PDF to drive new revenues for content owners…

“Yahoo and Adobe will partner to allow publishers to run dynamically generated pay-per-click ads on PDF files posted on the Web or distributed via e-mail, opening up a new frontier in online advertising…”

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…”

“How popular can Internet be with the visually impaired? A lot, it appeared, as the visually challenged users in Bangalore navigated through the web with the help of a screen reader.”

Visually impaired people, who frequently need to use the Internet, find that the only option that helps them operate- speech software- is actually incompatible with a number of Web sites and is often slowed down by high graphic content on such pages.

Looking to avoid a similar legal mess to that of YouTube, Yahoo announced that it had reached a licensing deal with Sony BMG…

Yahoo and Sony BMG Music Entertainment have announced a licensing deal that clears the way for people to upload files with music or video content by the record company’s artists to Yahoo, the companies said Tuesday.

“The deal allows Yahoo to distribute Sony BMG content through applications and widgets that the portal’s users can embed in their own Web sites.”

Although the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium is facing growing challenges, local papers are still finding its ad partnership offering attractive…

New York -- Yahoo Inc. has added 17 more newspapers to its group of online publishing partners, giving the group added heft as it approaches its one-year anniversary.

The AP reports that Yahoo has added 17 new members to the consortium, including The Columbus Dispatch and 16 regional newspapers owned by The New York Times Co. have joined the consortium.

When it comes to mobile search, Yahoo has been making aggressive moves this year in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, and has worked with the Mobile Marketing Association to help develop and establish mobile Web advertising guidelines.

“Yahoo is racing to attract subscribers to Internet services delivered via mobile phones rather than computer browsers as rival Google unveiled a plan to offer software to create a new class of Internet-ready phones.”

Acquisition instantly makes search company a major provider of Web-hosted collaboration and communications…

Yahoo has been on an acquisition binge late, but mostly to expand its advertising business. Now Yahoo is buying its way deeper into the applications business with the acquisition of Zimbra for a reported $350 million, mostly in cash.

“Since the past five years, social networking sites, an online place where a user can create a profile and build a personal network that connects him or her to other users, have rocketed from a niche activity into a vast event that engages tens of millions of internet users.”

“And it seems that Yahoo is getting ready to get in the game.”

“Yahoo is expanding its news, blogging and social networking horizons through the acquisition of BuzzTracker and its new Facebook rival Yahoo Mash.”

New York -- Internet Search Company Yahoo Inc. announced earlier this week that it has acquired ‘BuzzTracker’, a news aggregation site, for an undisclosed sum, and named the site’s founder, Alan Warms, as general manager and vice president of Yahoo News.

London -- Yahoo Inc., which until now did not have an advertising deal with any of the big social networks, announced on Wednesday an exclusive partnership with Bebo to manage display advertising on the social networking Web site in Britain and Ireland, giving it access to more than 11 million sought-after users.

Yahoo! says the three-tier agreement marks Yahoo!’s first tie-up with a social networking site and will enable the internet firm to provide its advertisers with “substantially improved” marketing opportunities in the traditionally hard-to-reach 13- 24-year-old age group.