Yahoo: General
Yahoo 2016 Year in Review: ‘2016 Election’ top search term & ‘Election Day’ No. 1 news story
Yahoo says "Donald Trump" ranked as its second most popular search of the year, while "Hillary Clinton" barely made the top 10....
Yahoo Wants To Syndicate Search To 600,000 Mobile Apps
Flurry gives Yahoo massive mobile reach and developer access. ...
Yahoo Rolls Out Search For Its Android Launcher Aviate
In February, I wrote that the glaring omission from Yahoo’s Android launcher and “intelligent homescreen” Aviate was a...
Yahoo Replaces Google As Default Search Provider in Firefox
Yahoo and Mozilla just announced a “strategic five-year partnership that makes Yahoo the default search experience for Firefox in the...
Yahoo Gives $10 Million To Help Develop Next-Gen Siri And Better “Contextual Search”
Several years ago, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, as a then Google employee, spoke about the perfect search engine that could anticipate your needs...
Yahoo To Shutter AltaVista, Axis & Several More Products
Out with the old. Out with the new. Yahoo’s latest round of spring cleaning includes the shut down of one of the web’s oldest search...
Yahoo Clues, App Search & Other Products To Shut Down April 1
Marissa Mayer is tightening Yahoo’s belt. Since taking over as Yahoo’s CEO, she’s spoken repeatedly on the need to zero in on...
No CEO News Emerges From Yahoo Shareholder Meeting
You can’t blame Yahoo’s board for being a little bit gun shy. After all, eight out of 11 directors are new this year — three...
Report: Scott Thompson To Step Down As Yahoo CEO, Ross Levinsohn To Step In
Kara Swisher at AllThingsD is reporting that embattled Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is going to step down for “personal reasons.”...
Yahoo In A Fight For Its Life
According to Reuters on Tuesday next week the already embattled new Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson will lay out his vision for the company. The...
Google Valentine’s Day Logo Features Tony Bennett’s Cold Cold Heart
Google has a pretty sophisticated logo, aka Google Doodle, today on their home page for Valentine’s Day. Also celebrating with special...
It’s Official: PayPal President Scott Thompson The New Yahoo CEO
AllThingsD reported late yesterday that PayPal president Scott Thompson would likely be named CEO of Yahoo. It’s now official; Yahoo just...
Yahoo Product Runway: Livestand And IntoNow
Yahoo held its second now annual “Product Runway” event, mc’d by product chief Blake Irving. Irving was assisted by some...
Google’s Halloween Logo Made Up Of 6,000 Pounds Of Pumpkins
There is a special Google logo on Google for Halloween today, the logo is a video of Google’s Doodle team carving the Google logo out of...
As Buyers Circle Yahoo, Will It Be Carved Up?
Now that it’s for sale, there are several reports indicating multiple buyers are interested in some or all of Yahoo. Among the names...
With Carol Bartz Out As CEO, Yahoo Needs To Find Its Own “Steve Jobs”
The not-so-shocking news came yesterday afternoon that embattled Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was fired. When Bartz came to power in January 2009 I...
Google’s 2011 Mother’s Day Logo & More Logos
Today is Mother’s Day in the United States and many many other countries and for the special day, Google and the other search engines have...
Yahoo Snaps Up Video Check-In Start-Up IntoNow
How badly does Yahoo want to skip ahead to the forefront of media and social check-ins? Badly enough to spend a reported $20 to $30 million to...
Google’s Interactive Earth Day Logo
Today on Google’s home page is a special interactive Google logo for Earth Day. Earth Day this year falls out on Good Friday and for the...
St. Patrick’s Day Logo Not On Google.com
This is the first time in years that Google does not have a St. Patrick’s Day logo on the Google.com home page. Google does have a special...