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Yahoo urged to help free Chinese dissident
AMNESTY demanded that Yahoo help free a journalist serving a 10 year sentence after the portal provided evidence to Chinese commissarsThe organisation said Yahoo provided account...
Rumor of the day: Yahoo buying Digg?
Yahoo is at the center of the latest rumor sweeping the blogging world Several sites are reporting that the media company is getting ready to acquire Diggcom, an online news...
Yahoo decides it can compete with Google after all
SEARCH OUFIT, Yahoo, has backed down on a statement made by its top officers that the company was conceding its number one spot to Google Susan Decker, Yahoo's chief financial...
Play that funky music, Yahoo
Yahoo got its music juices flowing Monday, announcing the acquisition of Webjay, a Web site that allows people to publish music playlists online It's a small deal...
Yahoo Plugs Directly Into Television
Yahoo Inc unveiled its strategy for moving from the PC to the living room TV The entertainment portal announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nev, that it plans...
Yahoo mail beta gets mostly rave reviews
Yahoo on Friday expanded its new mail beta to a broad group of both free and Mail Plus users around the globe, a spokeswoman confirmed The long-anticipated new service features...
Yahoo Launches VoIP Service Linked To Web Features
The crowded VoIP sector is getting another major player Yahoo Inc, which is entering the field with a service that in many ways is cheaper than Web phoning pacesetter Skype, and...
Yahoo launches cheap voice service
Yahoo is expanding its voice services, adding features that will let customers make calls to and from PCs and phones for a penny per minute The move puts the Web portal more...
Yahoo Brings Web 2.0 to E-Commerce
Yahoo on Tuesday launched a beta of a social commerce site dubbed the Shoposphere The site will allow users to browse listings of products, called "Pick Lists," that other users...
Yahoo Offers Some Keys to Maps
Yahoo unveiled the next iteration of Yahoo Maps, adding new interactivity and features An overview map shows the area of the main map in its greater context of surrounding towns...
Yahoo Upgrades Mapping Service
Yahoo Inc has redesigned its online maps to make it easier to get driving directions to multiple destinations and find local merchants--the latest move in the company's duel with...
Yahoo boosts prices on music service
Yahoo is boosting the price of a key part of its digital music subscription service, after launching it six months ago with a price tag startlingly lower than rival offerings The...
Yahoo Bars Illicit Chat Rooms
Yahoo is slamming the doors to chat rooms with names that may promote sex between adults and minors as part of an agreement with law enforcement agencies The announcement comes...
Yahoo Inc. Acquires Upcoming.org
Yahoo Inc has acquired Upcomingorg, an online event planning site that's expected to infuse the Internet powerhouse with more content about local communities The Sunnyvale,...
Yahoo jumps on the library bandwagon
Yahoo is getting into the book digitizing business, albeit on a slightly less-ambitious scale than the currently stalled Google Library project The Open Content Alliance,...
Calif. Company Hits Yahoo with IP Suit
Move over Microsoft and Google California-based Nuance Communications, makers of voice automation technology, said on Friday they planned to sue Yahoo in order to prevent the...
Yahoo to digitize public domain books
Yahoo is launching a library-digitization project to rival Google's controversial program Yahoo is working with the Internet Archive, the University of California and others on a...
Yahoo Moves Into the Hot Zone
Yahoo's latest online news project is called "The Hot Zone" and is billed as a much-needed look at war-torn regions that have drawn scant mainstream media coverage But the title...
Yahoo Search Gets Instant Answers
Yahoo on Thursday unveiled a new beta feature on its Web search that checks to see if there is a single, relevant result to a query and pops up the answer in a "search bubble"...
New Yahoo Mail beta to be unveiled
Yahoo was set to unveil on Wednesday a limited public beta of its new Yahoo Mail service, featuring a new interface more like that of a desktop e-mail application and faster...
Yahoo Polishes E-Mail Search Tool
Taking a cue from Google's Gmail, which emphasizes search over sorting, Yahoo has expanded the search functionality offered by its Web mail service To start, Search results are...
Yahoo unveils new e-mail search functions
Yahoo on Tuesday announced the phased rollout of new search functions for the company's free Web-based e-mail service New features include the ability to search e-mail header,...
Yahoo! Redefines Hosting Service
Yahoo! has recently taken a step towards furthering consumerism by redesigning its hosting service to suit its small business merchants The revamped service emphasizes...
NCSA Steps Back from Yahoo Debate
The NCSA distanced itself over the weekend from a study posted on its Web site that called into question Yahoo's claims of a larger search engine index than rival Google The...
Yahoo Music Service Officially Launches
Yahoo! Music Unlimited, the company's subscription music service, has left beta and Yahoo is preparing a massive marketing blitz to promote its new offering Powered by the Yahoo!...
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