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Yahoo! Improves Product and Recipe Search Experience
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has fixed up their search engine to be more interactive for the holidays. The search features has Yahoo! content integrated with search results for shopping and recipes on top of the search results.
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Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, Twitter, AOL, and eBay Oppose Proposed Legislation About Copyright Regulation
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) executive chairman Eric Schmidt has been vocal about proposed legislation regarding online copyright regulation today and said that the PROTECT IP Act in the U.S. Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act in the U.S. House of Representatives would censor the Internet. This bill is intended to combat pirated movies and music and allow copyright holders and law enforcement officials the ability to cut off websites.
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Categories America Online, AOL, eBay, Eric Schmidt, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo!
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Yahoo! Acquires Interclick For $270 Million
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has acquired InterCLICK Inc (NASDAQ:ICLK), an advertising targeting and optimization software company for $270 million. What makes this deal interesting is that for the last few months, Yahoo! was rumored to be ripe for an acquisition themselves. InterCLICK’s data targeting and advertising optimization technologies will be rolled into Yahoo!’s own platforms. InterCLICK will allow Yahoo! to pool their inventory into premium packages.
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Apple Hires Yahoo!’s Head Of Data Center Operations, Scott Noteboom
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has hired Scott Noteboom, the head of Yahoo!’s data center operations. Noteboom worked at Yahoo! since 2005. Noteboom managed over 10x growth of Yahoo!’s data centers. Apple’s data center operations has been ramping up at a quick pace, especially when they launched the iCloud service. [GigaOM]
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Jerry Yang: Yahoo! Has Other Options Besides A Sale
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) co-founder Jerry Yang said today that the company board of directors is considering multiple options about what to do with the company. “The intent going in is not to put ourselves for sale,” said Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang at the AsiaD conference. “The intent is to look at all the options.” Yahoo! is made of three components: Its core business, Yahoo! Japan (Softbank), and its share in Alibaba.
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Yahoo! Reports $1.072 Billion In Q3 2011 Revenues
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has reported their third quarter financials today. Yahoo!’s revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs was $1.072 billion for the third quarter of 2011. This is a 5% decrease during the same time last year. Yahoo! beat Wall Street analyst expectations of $1.09 billion.
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Yahoo! CTO Raymie Stata Steps Down
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) chief technology officer Raymie Stata has stepped down from the company. Raymie will be replaced by Ash Munshi. Below is a statement from the company:
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Leaked Memo From Yahoo! Indicates Company Hired Allen & Co. For Acquisition Help
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) recently fired CEO Carol Bartz. To explain the decision made by the board, Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang sent out a memo to employees explaining what has been happening at the company. The memo indicates that Yahoo! hired Allen & Company to field “inquiries from multiple parties that have already expressed interest in a number of potential options.” Below is the memo:
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AOL, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Partnering On Ads
The three rival companies AOL, Inc. (NYSE:AOL), Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) are partnering with each other on ad sales. The three are partnering in an effort to effectively compete against Google. The three companies are also aiming to gain back ad spending that ended up in the hands of other ad networks.
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Carol Bartz: Yahoo “F—ed Me Over”
Carol Bartz was recently fired from the CEO position at Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO). Carol Bartz was quoted as saying “These people f**ked me over.” Yahoo! Chairman Roy Bostock called Carol Bartz on her cellphone to fire her. Bartz was in New York speaking at the Citigroup technology conference the next day when she was supposed to call Bostock at 6PM. She called Bostock at 6:06PM and he started reading a lawyer’s prepared statement to fire her.
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Categories Carol Bartz, Roy Bostock, Yahoo!
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