Yahoo Takes Turn In Front Of House Subcommittee (WebProNews)

Friday, June 19th, 2009

Yahoo wants you to know that it values your privacy as much as – or possibly more than – Google.  Yesterday, the Mountain View-based giant got a bit of a head start in terms of describing a hearing titled “Behavioral Advertising: Industry Practices and Consumer Expectations,” but Sunnyvale has now published its take.  Anne Toth, Vice President of Policy and Head of Privacy at Yahoo, testified in …

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Report: Google public policy head to join Obama (CNET)

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Andrew McLaughlin, Google’s director of global public policy, is reportedly leaving the search giant to be the deputy chief technology officer for the Obama administration.

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Google dropped idea of buying newspaper: CEO (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Google considered buying a newspaper but dropped the idea, the head of the Internet search giant said in an interview with the Financial Times published on Wednesday.

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Yahoo, Alibaba Relationship Frays Under Bartz (PC World via Yahoo! News)

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Relations between Yahoo and Alibaba Group, which controls Yahoo’s China operations, have soured since Carol Bartz took the helm of the online search giant, a source close to the relationship between the companies said Tuesday.

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Yahoo, Alibaba relationship frays under Bartz (Computerworld)

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

IDG News Service – Relations between Yahoo and Alibaba Group, which controls Yahoo’s China operations, have soured since Carol Bartz took the helm of the online search giant, a source close to the relationship between the companies said Tuesday.

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Yahoo May Build Data Center in WNY (WKBW-TV Buffalo)

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

Internet search engine giant Yahoo Inc. is looking to establish a data center in Western New York. Governor Paterson’s office confirms that they are talking with Yahoo executives and trying to convince them to do business in this part of the state.

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Google tightens bonds with YouTube users (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Google is routing YouTube users further into the online search giant’s Internet world.

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Old Japanese maps on Google Earth unveil secrets (AP via Yahoo! News)

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

When Google Earth added historical maps of Japan to its online collection last year, the search giant didn’t expect a backlash. The finely detailed woodblock prints have been around for centuries, they were already posted on another Web site, and a historical map of Tokyo put up in 2006 hadn’t caused any problems.

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Google puts flu tracker to work on swine flu (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Using a new tracking tool, search engine giant Google said on Wednesday it saw a spike in searches for information about flu among people in Mexico last week even before news of the outbreak became widely known.

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Why Google Wants You To Google Yourself (Time Magazine)

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Google profiles are the search giant’s fiendishly clever attempt to turn your egosurfing pain into their gain

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