In a conference yesterday, representatives from Yahoo gave a live demonstration to reporters and analysts of new features of their principal Web applications that they believe will attract new users. Included on their list were ways that Yahoo plans to improve search.

We were surprised when Bartz, Yahoo’s CEO said .. Read Further »

MicroHoo (Yahoo-Microsoft) deal was supposed to monetize Yahoo search — that’s what we thought. But now it looks like it was more than just a Bing deal.

Within last few days, we observed something new. Yahoo! is  now encouraging Firefox users that they’d be better off switching to the “new, safer Internet Explorer 8″.

A Drastic Change?

It’s one of the rare moments when a Big alliance is formed by 3 heavyweights to fight Google’s attempt to create what could be the world’s largest virtual library.

Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo are in talks to sign up to the Open Book Alliance being spearheaded by the Internet Archive. They oppose a legal settlement that could make Google the main source for many online works.

“Google is trying to monopolise the library .. Read Further »

The Microhoo deal is finally out of the news and Yahoo has finally happily settled in the grave built by Microsoft.

In an interview with Carol Bartz, Yahoo’s CEO, and she uttered a quote that lead to industry-wide disagreement.

When we think about Yahoo, Google, what do we think first?

Ms. Bartz places Yahoo’s position in a rather different light. “We have never been a search company,” she said. “It is, ‘I am on Yahoo. I am going to do a search.’”

What? Am I wrong or …?

Yahoo, according to Ms. Bartz, simply feeds search results for people who have grown curious while reading one of its .. Read Further »

Steve Ballmer had been looking into this deal with sky high hopes and desperation. But a bad news was awaiting to settle down his excitement. The Wall Street reacted negatively to Yahoo’s plan to hand over its Internet search and advertising reins to Microsoft.

“Nobody gets it,” he said about the deal, unveiled Wednesday after more than a year in the making.

Under terms of the 10-year deal, Microsoft’s Bing search engine and adCenter platform will power Yahoo’s search-based advertising business, while Yahoo’s sales team will handle both companies’ .. Read Further »

On the outside, the deal between Microsoft and Yahoo, is not related to Open source, means nothing to it. but there’s a hidden story that finds an analogy.

FACT:

It’s not a merger. Yahoo’s open source projects remain Yahoo’s, though their opensource driven search goes offline for long decade Hibernation. This is totally opposite to the Oracle-Sun deal, where Sun’s open source projects were said to be behind Oracle’s interest.

But, Yahoo isn’t all strong on the other sides. Yahoo’s open source projects are now held by a company that is cash poor. The company will be under enormous pressure .. Read Further »

The rumors had been living for Microsoft-Yahoo deal since a year now. Last year, Microsoft failed to impress the shareholders, and could not settle with a deal to buy Yahoo.

Since then, we have seen a bunch of news about Micro-hoo! deals. With no final news coming out, it was getting fishy. But today, the deal was finally announced: Microsoft and Yahoo! have finally Married under a Deal - strictly limited to internet search and advertising.

This move, as per the companies, is supposed to help both in their competition with Google. The deal covers a whole chunk of things, but the most important one is that .. Read Further »