Sunnyvale, California -- Yahoo owned Flickr continues to attract a vast community of more than 85 million devotees and photo enthusiasts each month around the world. The popular photo-sharing site Flickr on Wednesday has rolled out a dramatic makeover to the layout of its site's photo display page, by transforming the default picture size larger, revamping the navigation scheme and consolidating capabilities and information under fewer menus and sections.

New York -- Rumors swirling around that ink cartridge manufacturer Hewlett-Packard has made an alliance with Yahoo on a test related to delivering targeted advertisements printed for the company's latest line of web-connected printers.

HP just last week unveiled its new line of Web-connected printers that allows users to download web pages without linking to a computer, and print images sent from a mobile device using printer-specific email addresses. Furthermore, the Yahoo advertising network will deliver targeted ads for the content on those printouts.

Sunnyvale, California -- Continuing its penetration into the social-networking realm, and its announced partnership with Facebook, Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc. will soon introduce new ways to view content from Facebook Inc. across its websites, according to people briefed on the matter, as it aims to prevent Yahoo users from defecting to the social network, according to the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.

Sunnyvale, California -- Needless to mention that in recent times hordes of engineering talent has been defecting from Yahoo, some are sticking around the Sunnyvale, Calif. campus and moving up. Yahoo has tapped a cloud computing veteran “Raymie Stata” to chief technology officer to fulfill the role vacated by Ari Balogh when he left the company in April, the company announced Thursday.

Sunnyvale, California -- There is a good news and more good news for Yahoo fans this week: the company is cautiously preparing to jump into Twitter-like social networking offerings in a remarkable way by utilizing its massive population of e-mail subscribers as a base for sharing information on the Web, and while doing so, while it is trying very hard to avoid the privacy-related blunders made by titans Google and Facebook in recent months.

Los Angeles -- Since last December, Yahoo is continuing its love affair with a treasure-trove of Facebook-related features added to Yahoo! Mail, another move towards deeper integration; now, the company rolling out a new feature that would allow Facebook enthusiasts to view, comment, and integrating Facebook news feed items directly into Yahoo Mail, actions that will sync with your activity on Facebook.com.

Sunnyvale, California -- Another longtime Yahoo executive “Tapan Bhat,” who has been with Yahoo for more than five and who has extensively managed the Internet giant's most important homepage, late last week announced that he is quitting the company, according to an All Things Digital report.

Sunnyvale, California -- Internet pioneer Yahoo seems to be on a tear has agreed to a deal with Zynga, makers of the monumentaly popular Farvmville and Mafia Wars games on Facebook, the alliance will see Yahoo integrating Zynga games across Yahoo's broad range of sites and service offerings, that includes Yahoo's home page, Yahoo Mail, and Yahoo Messenger, which is a significant indication that Zynga will not need Facebook alone to thrive.

Sunnyvale, California -- Barely days after Yahoo's futile attempt to snaffle New York-based Foursquare for more than $100 million, and just a day after announcing a new mapping alliance with Nokia, Yahoo on Tuesday announced that it has acquired Koprol, an Indonesian Internet service that lets people use mobile telephones to instantly connect with nearby people and places.

Sunnyvale, California -- Web pioneer Yahoo Inc. and cell phone maker Nokia on Monday announced an alliance that will empower the Finnish phone giant providing map services to Yahoo customers on both PCs and mobile devices, while the Sunnyvale Internet company provides mail and chat services for Nokia customers around the world, seeking to regain market share lost to rivals like Apple Inc and Google Inc.

Sunnyvale, California -- Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz has scheduled a press conference in New York for Monday, when it may soon announce a partnership with Espoo, Finland-based mobile phone manufacturer Nokia, and is expected to reveal a “Project Nike”. According to the latest information on the matter, the duo might announce a partnership to deliver Yahoo email, search and other applications and services to Nokia handsets, yet nothing is official.

Sunnyvale, California -- Yahoo has agreed to acquire Associated Content, an Internet portal that commissions and publishes articles and other content from its vast stable of 380,000 freelance contributors to write commentary and informational articles on a broad range of subjects, in a major push by the Internet portal to offer more original content.

Santa Clara, California -- Yahoo Inc. won approval Tuesday night from the Santa Clara City Council's 7-0 vote for building a sprawling three-million-square-foot in the heart of Silicon Valley, “an ambitious project envisioned in the midst of the company's ongoing turnaround effort.”

Sunnyvale, California -- On the heels of a disappointing $100 million ad campaign, which Yahoo unveiled late last year, is having another go at revitalizing its brand with a second big-budget advertising campaign, hoping to gain traffic to its home page and win back share in the Internet-search market with a new ad blitz that takes a shot at larger rival Google.

Sunnyvale California -- Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc. on Monday forged a strategic partnership with mobile handset manufacturer Samsung to dispense more of its Internet services on Samsung mobile phones from the South Korean giant, including those running Samsung bada and Android platforms, in a fresh attempt to wrest dominance from Google.

Sunnyvale, California -- Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc., on Wednesday rolled out a pilot program called “More Sponsors,” as part of the Sunnyvale, Calif., company aims to improve search results that meet the needs of those who use its engine -- place more PPC links in Yahoo Search Results, David Pann, Yahoo's vice president of search advertising, said in a statement.

New York -- Yahoo! has acquired a new domain name called “Me.Me,” for its Yahoo Meme micro-blogging service -- as a part of its strategy to compete with Twitter.

With its earnings swelling up in Q1 2010 over Q1 2009, and things appear to be looking good for Yahoo with improved ad spending, this will serve as a nice add-on for its Yahoo Meme service which was supposed to take on Twitter. The Me.me domain name will, naturally enough, tie in to Yahoo's micro-blogging site, Meme.

Sunnyvale, California -- Well, that was pretty quick. Barely two weeks after Yahoo announced that Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of products Ari Balogh, who earlier this month said would be leaving for “personal reasons,” the company quickly nabbed Microsoft old-timer “Blake Irving” as replacement for Balogh, Yahoo said Monday.

Sunnyvale, California -- Do you think you are a movie buff who has seen all the classics? -- Yahoo! Movies, one of the prominent movies websites, has released today its list of “100 Movies to See Before You Die: The Modern Classics,” arranged chronologically and they are all notably familiar from awards circuit coverage focused on the last 20 years of cinema from Hollywood and beyond, to name a few such as: James Cameron's 3-D gold mine “Avatar”, Quentin Tarantino's “Inglourious Basterds” and Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow's “The Hurt Locker.”

Sunnyvale, California -- As Yahoo relentlessly strives to re-establish itself again, the person in charge of the technological side of the company has stepped down after just over 2 years. Yahoo Inc.'s CTO and EVP Products “Ari Balogh,” who joined Yahoo in early 2008 is stepping down, the company said on Thursday.