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Yahoo Partnership Helps ABCNews.com Numbers Soar

Yahoo Partnership Helps ABCNews.com Numbers Soar

ABC News is reporting that their ABCNews.com portal witnessed a 98% increase in traffic in October when compared to September traffic numbers, an increase witnessed directly after the company signed a partnership agreement with Yahoo, Inc.  When the two company’s […]

Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft Engage In Display Advertising Agreement

Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft Engage In Display Advertising Agreement

Microsoft Corp., AOL and Yahoo! teamed up on Wednesday to offer advertisers the ability to buy non-reserved online display inventory from all three company’s. Agencies will still have the ability to choose who they partner with (Yahoo! Network Plus, AOL’s […]

Yahoo Wagers on iPad, Competes With Flipboard With ‘Livestand’ Launch

Yahoo Wagers on iPad, Competes With Flipboard With ‘Livestand’ Launch

After a delay, Yahoo has finally launched its Flipboard competitor Livestand, bringing much of the company’s copious content to the iPad. Like Flipboard before it, the app is tailored to take the content from across Yahoo’s third-party content network to […]

Yahoo Buys Interclick For $270 Million, Grows “Targeted Message” Reach

Yahoo Buys Interclick For $270 Million, Grows “Targeted Message” Reach

Yahoo! Inc. on Tuesday announced the acquisition of display advertising firm Interclick Inc. for $270 million. Under the agreement Interclick stockholders will receive $9 per share, 22 percent higher than the company’s closing price on Tuesday. The deal is expected […]

Yahoo Shares Slide On News Of “Special” Dividend Payments, Share Buyback Program

Yahoo Shares Slide On News Of “Special” Dividend Payments, Share Buyback Program

Executives at internet content firm Yahoo! Inc. have not officially decided to sell the company at this time and news of a possible “special dividend” payment or a stock buyback program caused the company’s shares to fall on Monday, leading […]

Ellen DeGeneres Hooks Up With Yahoo’s Shine

Ellen DeGeneres Hooks Up With Yahoo’s Shine

In a partnership announced Friday, talk show host and comedienne Ellen DeGeneres is hooking up with Yahoo’s female-oriented content network Shine. As Oprah Winfrey’s OWN Network struggles to find its way in a new digital age, it seems DeGeneres has […]

Google And Yahoo Launching Digital Newsstands Next Week [Report]

Google And Yahoo Launching Digital Newsstands Next Week [Report]

Yahoo and Google are both expected to unveil new digital newsstand apps next week according to a report by All Things D. Yahoo will hit first with their Livestand app launching on Wednesday followed by Google who will release their Propeller […]

Yahoo Bidders Balk At Confidentiality Clause That Would Stop Joint Bids

Yahoo Bidders Balk At Confidentiality Clause That Would Stop Joint Bids

Yahoo Inc. may be losing some potential buyers after the company’s demand for confidentiality this week essentially stopped the possibility for firms to discuss joint bids. Under current terms Goldman Sachs and Allen & Co, advisers to the Yahoo sale […]

Steve Ballmer Says “Luck” Kept Microsoft From Buying Yahoo In 2008

Steve Ballmer Says “Luck” Kept Microsoft From Buying Yahoo In 2008

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told attendees at the Web 2.0 Summit that Microsoft was lucky to be locked out of Yahoo buyout in 2008. Speaking to the crowd about his company’s original $44 billion bid he said “sometimes you’re lucky” […]

Jack Ma Says Cash Is Lined Up To Buy Yahoo

Jack Ma Says Cash Is Lined Up To Buy Yahoo

Alibaba founder Jack Ma announced on Monday that he has the cash needed to buy Yahoo, inc. It should come as no surprise that Ma made the announcement at an Alibaba company event on Monday since the CEO has long […]

AOL’s Tim Armstrong Trying To Merge Company With Yahoo

AOL’s Tim Armstrong Trying To Merge Company With Yahoo

Tim Armstrong is hoping Yahoo shareholders can see the value in merging AOL with Yahoo to create a massive content company. According to a Reuters source Armstrong believes selling AOL to Yahoo could save the combined company’s $1.5 billion in […]

Yahoo Reportedly Loses Hulu Bidding As Google Hangs On

Yahoo Reportedly Loses Hulu Bidding As Google Hangs On

The bidding process for Hulu is slimming down and reports are now circulating that Yahoo, Inc. has dropped out of the process after placing a big in the vicinity of $1 billion to $2 billion. The Wall Street Journal revealed […]

Microsoft Not Ready To Place Yahoo Bid

Microsoft Not Ready To Place Yahoo Bid

Insiders close to Microsoft announced on Wednesday that the company is nowhere near ready to place a bid for Yahoo! Inc. According to those same insiders Microsoft officials are planning to examine Yahoo’s financial information when it circulates later this week, […]

ABC, Yahoo Hook Up in Massive Content Deal

ABC, Yahoo Hook Up in Massive Content Deal

Finally some good news for Yahoo after a spate of tales of woe encompassing declining traffic and the high-profile departure of former CEO Carol Bartz last month. The second-banana search engine has inked a fairly large content deal with ABC […]