March, 2008
Yahoo! Helps Women ”Shine” With New Website
Yahoo! today announced the launch of Yahoo! Shine (http://shine.yahoo.com), a new website for women that aims to provide the information most relevant to their daily lives. The site offers nine categories ranging from Fashion & Beauty to Parenting, and will feature content from many of the most popular lifestyles publishers, including Conde Nast Publications and [...]
Yahoo!, MySpace and Google to form non-profit OpenSocial Foundation
Yahoo!, MySpace, and Google today announced they have agreed to form the OpenSocial Foundation to ensure the neutrality and longevity of OpenSocial as an open, community-governed specification for building social applications across the web. Yahoo!’s support of OpenSocial and role as a founding member of the new foundation are landmarks for the rapidly growing specification which [...]
Yahoo! Investor Presentation Details Financial Plan
Yahoo! today filed an investor presentation that details the Company’s three-year financial plan and strategic initiatives which are expected to roughly double operating cash flow over the next three years from $1.9 billion to $3.7 billion and generate $8.8 billion in revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs (revenue ex-TAC) in 2010. The financial plan was first [...]
Yahoo! Research Opens Israel Lab
Yahoo! today announced that it has launched a new research lab in Haifa, Israel — its first in the region. The Yahoo! Research Israel Lab will be led by Dr. Ronny Lempel, a renowned information organization and retrieval expert who will report directly to Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates, vice president of Yahoo! Research. The Yahoo! Research [...]
Google Closes Acquisition of DoubleClick
Google announced today that it has completed its acquisition of DoubleClick, a company that offers online ad serving and management technology to advertisers, web publishers and ad agencies. Eric Schmidt, Google’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said, “We are thrilled that our acquisition of DoubleClick has closed. With DoubleClick, Google now has the leading display ad [...]
Yahoo! Extends Deadline for Nominating Directors to Board
Yahoo! today announced that it has amended the Company’s bylaws to extend the deadline for nominating directors to Yahoo!’s board from March 14th to 10 days following the public announcement of the date for Yahoo!’s 2008 annual meeting of stockholders. As the Company has not yet announced the date of this year’s annual meeting, the [...]
Yahoo! onePlace™ Revolutionizes Mobile Content
Yahoo! continues to enable the global mobile ecosystem with the unveiling of Yahoo! onePlace™ – a revolutionary mobile content management solution. Following the company’s achievements in reinventing mobile search and mobile communications, Yahoo! onePlace is designed to be an essential tool to enable consumers to better manage the wide selection of content available across the [...]