San Francisco -- Just earlier this week, we reported that Yahoo will discontinue development on its revamped mobile application for the Blackberry in favor of the iPhone, but very soon released an update to its iPhone app, offering another important resource to mobile searchers at their fingertips, and this time in the form of Yahoo's Mobile 1.1 for iPhone and iPod Touch app, which now includes voice-recognition search capabilities to compete with Google's iPhone app.

Yahoo's mobile app enables iPhone users to speak their Yahoo queries, as well as integerating everything you need to keep connected with e-mail, social networks, news feeds, messenger, video, and other Web-based features to the iPhone into a single window.

New Delhi -- Internet search major Yahoo on Thursday launched its Digg-clone service called Yahoo Buzz in India, making it easier for Buzz users and followers to submit, vote and comment their friends and keep track of the whole Buzz community's activities as the site is now sporting a new look.

Yahoo Buzz allows people to vote and comment on the news stories they find most interesting in order to help shape the headlines on Yahoo!'s homepage.

“Yahoo! Buzz is a great example of how we can combine popular stories with the wisdom of real people to determine what is most engaging and relevant to our millions of users,” Yahoo! India Head of Audience Frazier Miller said in a statement.

Sunnyvale, California -- Few months back, Yahoo unveiled a number of mobile products and services such as: oneConnect, oneSearch, mobile web and few others. Also, the web pioneer earlier this year launched Yahoo Mobile in an attempt to harmonize the mobile user experience. But recently Yahoo said it will discontinue development on its mobile application for the Blackberry in favor of the iPhone.

Yahoo Mobile was unveiled in three versions earlier this year: an application for the iPhone, a browser version and an application that ran across hundreds of smartphones, said Adam Taggart, head of product marketing for Yahoo's mobile group.

After carrying out a beta test of the smartphone application, Yahoo has decided to discontinue its mobile app for the Blackberry and other smartphones in order to focus exclusively on its recently relaunched iPhone app.

Sunnyvale, California -- The rivalry between Yahoo and Google over the analytics arms race has been escalated a bit further on Friday as Yahoo released an upgraded version of its Web Analytics interface with new looks and features now available free for search and display advertisers and supported by Yahoo's account team.

Organizations employing search and display advertising to promote their Internet marketing campaign may be interested to hear that Yahoo! We Analytics is now available to them for free.

In a Yahoo! Search Marketing blog post, editor Jeff Sweat said search advertisers can use the tool to track the performance of their ad campaigns.

Sunnyvale, California -- Struggling search portal Yahoo, in its continuous management revamping found someone new to manage a collection of its most important offerings. The company has appointed digital-media veteran “Bryan Lamkin,” who previously worked at Adobe Systems and two venture capital firms, will join the Sunnyvale-based corporation with the title “senior vice president of Applications Products,” the group that manages some of its highest-profile products and is an essential element of the Yahoo Open Strategy.

This is perhaps the most important change that occurred in the recent weeks is the replacement of SVP Scott Dietzen–who has been in charge of all communications and communities products at Yahoo–by former Adobe Systems exec Bryan Lamkin.

Sunnyvale, California -- Yahoo Inc.'s chief of communications Brad Williams, has left the company, according to reports appeared at the weekend on The Wall Street Journal, quoting sources familiar with the issue. The development is the latest in management reorganization orchestrated by Yahoo's new CEO Carol Bartz.

Yahoo's hard-liner chief executive Bartz had reportedly decided to eliminate Williams' position in recent days, according to the newspaper, which cited people briefed on the move. The report credited one of those sources with saying that Williams had been laid off.

Williams, who joined the company in 2008, had been serving the Sunnyvale, Calif., company as senior communications executive since the departure of Jill Nash earlier this year, was notified of Bartz's decision. He was previously a spokesman for eBay Inc.

Sunnyvale, California -- Yahoo Inc., on Thursday announced that it is closing down its free GeoCities site, one of the pioneering web services that hosted personal home pages for consumers, which it acquired at the height of the dot-com boom for more than $4 billion 10 years ago, ending an era of self-expression on the Web that has largely been replaced by social networks and blogs.

A posting on Yahoo's Help Page for GeoCities stated that the service was no longer accepting new customers and that it will be closing down later this year, with more details about how individuals can save their data coming this summer.

The move comes just a few days after Yahoo said it would reduce nearly 700 workers, or 5 percent of its workforce.

Sunnyvale, California -- After taking stock of its profits that plunged nearly 80 per cent as advertisers cut spending amid the recession, Chief Executive Carol Bartz, on Tuesday assured as she delivered first-quarter financial results that Yahoo! will jettison five per cent of its worldwide workforce. The 5 percent job cuts will be different this time, the company said.

But reviewing her first full three months in charge, Bartz, the group's new chief executive, asserts that these job cuts are nothing like the job cuts made by the beleaguered web giant at the end of last year, although admitted that it was “not immune to the ongoing economic downturn”.

Sunnyvale, California -- Struggling Internet pioneer Yahoo, ditched one more of its unfruitful service to overcome the deteriorating economy. Yahoo, of late announced the closure of their Jumpcut online video service, and telling users to head to Flickr for making any new uploads.

In December, Yahoo announced disabled new video uploads, but that they “will be keeping the Jumpcut site up and running for the foreseeable future.” But now the company said that it will be closing the site in about two months.

That is the finesse of new CEO Carol Bartz, who is hard at work axing many of Yahoo's similarly lagging services.

Hence the shutting down Jumpcut is no surprise. Yahoo, with its own financial issues compounded by the recession, is under pressure to cut expenses. She has reportedly been preparing plans to sell off Yahoo's lackluster HotJobs employment listing service, for example.

San Francisco -- Walking a tightrope in the midst of economic downturn, dodging every obstacles while attempting to achieve stability, the struggling Internet powerhouse, Yahoo Inc. is planning its third major round of job cuts in 14 months, and the first since Carol Bartz became chief executive in January, which could affect several hundred employees, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times reported.

The layoffs could make a severe blow to several hundred employees company-wide on top of 2,400 jobs trimmed last year. The layoffs could be announced as early as next Tuesday, when Yahoo reports its first-quarter financial results, according to the source familiar with the matter, who wished to remain anonymous because of the issue's sensitivity.

Sunnyvale, California -- Shares of Sunnyvale, California based, Yahoo Inc. gained more than 7% in Nasdaq trading on Monday, amid speculation late last week that the company is in serious discussions with Redmond's software giant Microsoft Corp. about a possible search and online-advertising partnerships.

The Wall Street Journal and The AllThingsD blog reported Friday that Yahoo's Chief Executive Carol Bartz and Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer have been discussing the possibility of commercial integration between the two companies in the future, including the possibility that Yahoo would assume responsibility for sales of the companies' display advertising, and similarly Microsoft would assume responsibility for their search advertising business.

San Francisco -- Yahoo nowadays is paying some sincere attention to its Yahoo Search BOSS suite of development tools with a new variety of data available through its service, on Thursday said that it would be extending the Boss program to include new sources and better organizational capabilities, and has added Delicious to the mix, empowering those using the search results for storing and sharing Web address bookmarks.

Developers who wish to develop their own search services should now be able to play with three latest tools related to personalized Delicious content, language filters, and news stories' dates.

Yahoo Search BOSS is essentially an open source search platform which can be utilized by developers, start-ups and large companies to mix and mash Yahoo Search into their own custom offering, to foster innovation in the search industry.

Sunnyvale, California -- Yahoo Inc. on Thursday announced that it is expanding its cloud computing research efforts in academia and has made alliances with three more U.S. Universities, including adding new developer tools to its service for building custom search engines, BOSS.

The three new universities being added are: The University of California at Berkley, Cornell University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst will join Carnegie Mellon University in using Sunnyvale-based Yahoo's cloud computing cluster to conduct large-scale systems software research and explore new applications that analyze Internet-scale data sets, ranging from voting records to online news sources, the company said in a statement.

The cluster has approximately 4,000 processor-cores and 1.5 petabytes of disks.

Sunnyvale, California -- Standing shoulder to shoulder with its arch rival, Yahoo Messenger has finally made it way to iPhone application on the iTunes App store today, which functions more than just allow you to chat with your buddies. With this latest offering, users of the Yahoo Messenger application will be able to IM no matter where they are.

The application's feature offers the next best thing to online IM, and it is all bundled inside a slick and easy to use interface.

The latest Yahoo! Messenger is free to download, and instantly enables you to plug into your Yahoo network for instant messaging on the go. It also allows you to chat with friends, see their status, share photos, share links, choose emoticons, and even view recent conversations.

Sunnyvale, California -- Yahoo Inc. is continually attempting to smarten up its diminishing services to attract more users is opening up to include third party services to its own. Yahoo is joining hands with other online music providers, will launch a revamped version of its music service today, which will include Artists Pages that will be customizable with modules from competing services like iTunes, Amazon, Last.fm, Rhapsody, Pandora, and YouTube, and more exciting stuff is on the way, too, as the Internet giant tries a fresh approach to getting an edge in the evolving digital music business.

The new version of Yahoo Music, planned to be introduced today, adds up paid and free music services available on the Internet, allowing Yahoo users to access and interact with the services directly from the Yahoo site.

New York -- Recapturing its lost charm, search portal Yahoo has quietly revealed major changes to its Yahoo Image Search service this morning with a friendlier interface that displays larger images, and makes it easier to browse related thumbnails and the user experience is now better than Google Image Search.

The image search home pages, both for Google and Yahoo are basically the same: A query window with a few sample images below. However, Yahoo's images are culled from current events.

Sunnyvale, California -- Yahoo is continually busy overhauling its entire team under the new CEO, while its user interface engineers ventured onto try out something that is little different and experimental. Yahoo today released a new Adobe-powered application called “Sideline,” that brings Twitter's real-time search engine to the desktop.

Sideline, announced on the Yahoo user interface blog, the Adobe AIR powered application empowers users to create lasting real-time references to specific Twitter searches that can be grouped together in Sideline's tabbed interface. It also has the potential to handle advanced queries like specific brand or names, and refreshes the application with new references automatically. How does it do this? It pulls keyword mentions from Twitter, of course!

The application is meant to be a display house for using Yahoo's UI Library on top of Adobe AIR, and additionally it is best for real-time search client for Twitter in its own right, with a number of interesting advanced search features.

San Francisco -- Yahoo today unveiled a revamped mobile portal, an open and highly-personalized mobile starting point to the Internet, on both the mobile Web and as an Apple iPhone app, designed to help consumers stay up to date on the latest events, stay connected and stay informed through their mobile devices on a number of different social networks. The new portal employs search at the forefront and then offers full customization so that users can add widgets from third party sites such as Gmail and eBay.

The revamped mobile portal would soon replace the present http://m.Yahoo.com portal but not Yahoo!'s oneSearch search engine. Additionally, the company will screen the Yahoo! Messenger application that is shortly-to-be-released for the iPhone, which will provide iPhone users in the United States with the No. 1 Messenger service in the country.

Announced at Mobile World Congress in February, Yahoo! Mobile for the Web is can now be accessed through more than 300 devices around the globe with HTML-enabled mobile browsers by visiting http://new.m.yahoo.com, while the Yahoo! Mobile iPhone app is now available in the Apple iPhone App Store.

Sunnyvale, California -- Search engine pioneer Yahoo Inc. is all set to burn-down more fat today by closing its travel bargains website FareChase, a service that assisted users find travel bargains, and will begin redirecting users to its main travel site instead, spokeswoman Bahareh Ramin said in an e-mail, part of its plan to tighten the company's focus and cut costs.

Yahoo acquired FareChase in 2004. The service that enabled customers search for prices on flights, hotels and cars.

“Stopping FareChase will allow us focus our attention on strategic products and features on Yahoo Travel,” Ramin said.

The service helped customers perform comparative searches for pricing on flights, hotels, cruises and cars, but it was apparently not enough of a strategic product enhancement for Yahoo Travel, hence the company is discontinuing it altogether to tighten its focus and cut costs in these difficult times.

Sunnyvale, California -- With the ongoing shuffling of management under the leadership of recently appointed CEO Carol Bartz, Yahoo! Inc. announced that it has tapped Silicon Valley's seasoned marketing executive, “Elisa Steele” as its new chief marketing officer, effective today.

Steele will be responsible for managing the global marketing operations for the ailing search giant, as well as its marketing functions including brand marketing, audience marketing, corporate communications, insights, policy and privacy, community affairs, and related central teams. She reports to Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz.

Bartz has made reviving the Yahoo brand a top priority since joining the company in January.

“It is one of our biggest assets,” Bartz wrote in a blog post in late February.

“Mention Yahoo practically anywhere in the world, and people yodel. But in the past few years, we have not been as clear in showing the world what the Yahoo brand stands for. We are going to change that. Look for this company's brand to kick ass again.”