Rumours abound in the US suggest that Yahoo is the subject of a takeover bid from a number of private equity companies. As a result Yahoo’s share price has increased by approximately 6% suggesting that the rumours do have some substance with private equity firm KKR as well as media giant AOL. Since AOL’s merger Read News…
Yahoo In Takeover Bid?
November 11th, 2010 by Geoff
Yahoo Announces Huge Update’s Coming Soon!
September 17th, 2010 by Geoff
Blake Irving is the Chief Product Officer at Yahoo! Blake has recently made an announcement via yahoo’s blog regarding some of the new and exciting updates coming Yahoo that online users can look forward later on in the year. These updates come in with an extra effort to keep up to date with the latest Read News…
Yahoo’s Results Now Come From Bing
August 26th, 2010 by Geoff
Yahoo announced last week that they had begun changing their back end technology in Canada and US for Yahoo Search over to the Microsoft Platform and they released a statement today on both Bings and Yahoo’s search, that all free, organic search listings are responsible now by Bing. Senior VP, Shashi Seth stated in his Read News…
Yahoo Japan Switches to Google
August 3rd, 2010 by Geoff
Yahoo Japan has recently announced it will be switching its search technology and paid search provider to Google. You may wonder how this is possible. Well, Yahoo Japan is not wholly owned by Yahoo. In fact Yahoo only own 35% of Yahoo Japan and therefore does not have full control. Softbank, the Japanese internet provider, Read News…
Yahoo Japan Signs Deal With Google
July 27th, 2010 by Geoff
Yahoo Japan has today confirmed that it will soon be using Google’s search engine technology, rather than Microsoft’s which is used by its strategic partner Yahoo Inc. Yahoo Japan is 35%-owned by Yahoo Inc, however majority shareholder in the company is Softbank, which still retains a 40% stake. Yahoo currently has a 57% market share Read News…
Bing Increases Market Share
July 14th, 2010 by Geoff
Microsoft’s search engine Bing, has shown impressive results over the last 12 months, by gaining 12.7% of the market since its launch in June 2009. This is an increase of over 1.5% since January this year, and has risen steadily ever since. Google and Yahoo still dominate the bulk of the market, however todays news Read News…
Yahoo! Provides Real Time Search Suggestions
July 5th, 2010 by Geoff
Yahoo has launched new algorithm that give near real-time suggestions for enquiries for Yahoo! Search Assist. Google launched its real-time search in December providing the latest news and information from Twitter, news, blogs and other websites when searching. According to Linda Wang, Yahoo’s Senior Product Manager, search results on Yahoo will now show recent news Read News…
Yahoo Team Up With Nokia In New Mobile Deal
May 26th, 2010 by Geoff
Two of the biggest players in the internet and Mobile world- Yahoo and Nokia , have teamed up to strengthen their mobile and internet services in particular emerging markets. This comes after both companies have been under increasing pressure from rivals internet megastar Google and the increasing popular mobile and internet brand Apple. It is Read News…
