Archive for August, 2009

Yahoo unit wins webcasting ruling (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Friday, August 21st, 2009

A federal appeals court in New York, in a victory for Yahoo Inc, on Friday ruled that a webcasting service that provides users with individualized Internet radio stations need not pay licensing fees to copyright holders of the recordings it plays.

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DivX says it has settled lawsuit with Yahoo (AP via Yahoo! News)

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Video technology company DivX Inc. said Wednesday it has settled a lawsuit over a license and distribution deal with Yahoo, and raised its financial outlook for the third quarter.

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Bing rings up search gains, dinging Google, Yahoo (USA Today)

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Microsoft Corp.’s souped-up Internet search engine gained a little more ground on industry leaders Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. in July, according to data released late Monday.

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Microsoft and Yahoo challenge Google: Bing it on (The Journal News)

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft finally persuaded Yahoo to surrender control of the Internet’s second-most-popular search engine and join it in a daunting battle – taking on the overwhelming dominance of Google in the online advertising market.

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Yahoo partnership extends reach of Centre Daily Times (Centre Daily Times)

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

A McClatchy-Yahoo partnership has expanded the reach of Centre Daily Times to 80 percent of online u

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Microsoft, Yahoo Partnership Has Better Chances Against Google (redOrbit)

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

The new partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft opens new opportunities for both companies to increase their search market share, although they face an uphill battle against industry-leading Google, according to Web analysis firm comScore.In a report issued on Friday, comScore said that while the combined search share of Yahoo and Microsoft is still far behind the share held by Google, their …

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Google users loyal: comScore (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

The planned Microsoft-Yahoo! online search tie-up has promise but must overcome people’s fierce loyalty to market king Google, industry tracker comScore said Friday.

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Yahoo pitches paid mail to slow spam (V3.co.uk via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Yahoo is proposing a new paid mail service as a way to sidestep spam.

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Microsoft and Yahoo Need to Focus on Search Users? Loyalty (Search Engine Journal)

Friday, August 14th, 2009

comScore is running an interesting look into the June search data of Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. Overall, the analysis is pointing to the possibility of the combined forces of Microsoft and Yahoo easily catching up with Google’s overall search dominance or at least of becoming more competitive against Google. Citing June search market data, comScore’s study showed that combining Microsoft and? …

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The Gap Between Google and Rivals May Be Smaller Than You Think (New York Times)

Friday, August 14th, 2009

It?s no secret that even with their recently-announced alliance , Yahoo and Microsoft will lag well behind Google in the hugely profitable search and search advertising business. How far behind?

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