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,
, and
put two key pieces of their plan in place to connect TVs to Internet-equipped widgets this year.
Samsung agreed to support the technology inside of selected 2009 TVs, and Adobe said that it would port a version of its Flash Lite technology to the Intel Media Processor CE 3100, a key component in Yahoo Widget Channel-compatible set-top boxes.
In August 2008, Intel and Yahoo made a
to co-develop the Yahoo Widget Channel, a technology Read the rest of this entry »

In January, Yahoo and Intel plan to show off their new Yahoo Widget Channel at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) which plans to bring online interaction and social networking capabilities to digital TV watching. The Yahoo Widget Channel will showcase the ability to view Flickr albums with friends while watching television, serve targeted ads to the end user and order videos on demand via Yahoo.
For Yahoo, it’s establishment of the Widget Read the rest of this entry »

Yahoo!
is trying moving further in.
bought an additional 6.8 million shares of the Internet search engine over the Thanksgiving week to up his stake in
Yahoo!
) to 5.5%, or 75.6 million shares, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The enlarged holding in Yahoo! is likely to fuel speculation that Icahn is trying to take over the company now that the co-founder and chief executive has said that he will step Read the rest of this entry »

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Yahoo Hires MSN's Dossett to Oversee U.S. Web Sites (Update2)
Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) --
, owner of the second most
popular U.S. Internet search site, hired
away from
Microsoft Corp. to oversee U.S. Web sites aimed at consumers.
As a senior vice president, Dossett will report to
, the executive vice president of U.S. operations,
Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo said today in a statement.
Dossett earlier served as the general manager of Microsoft's Read the rest of this entry »

Yahoo to cut 1,400 jobs
NEW YORK (AFP) — Yahoo announced plans on Tuesday to lay off at least 10 percent of its workforce, some 1,400 employees, as the weak economy cut deeply into third-quarter profits at the struggling Web company.
Yahoo said net profit for the third-quarter of the year was 54 million dollars, or four cents per share, down from 151 million dollars and 11 cents per share during the same period of 2007.
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) would cut costs, and probably a lot of people. Some of those estimates have been as high as 3,000. Now,
that the specifics of the move may be announced during the earnings release later this week. According to the paper, "The exact number of jobs to be eliminated remains unclear, though it is expected to exceed the 1,000 jobs that Yahoo announced it was cutting in January."
Forget Yahoo!. The news means that an entire portion of the media industry Read the rest of this entry »

Yahoo Inc. is drafting significant cost-cutting plans to try to reverse its fortunes from the inside.
The Sunnyvale, Calif., Internet company is expected to disclose the cost cuts as soon as Tuesday, when it reports quarterly earnings, say people familiar with the matter. The cuts will involve layoffs, among other things, these people say.
The exact number of jobs to be eliminated remains unclear, though it is expected to exceed the 1,000 jobs Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Microsoft has no interest in acquiring Internet firm Yahoo, a company spokesman said Tuesday, after the chief executive of the software giant was quoted as saying a deal still makes sense.
"Our position hasn't changed. Microsoft has no interest in acquiring Yahoo. There are no discussions between the companies," the Microsoft spokesman said.
The Redmond, Washington-based company issued the statement after Microsoft CEO Read the rest of this entry »

By EDISON D. ONG
"We now have a ‘highway’ to the world! You are no longer confined to selling to your own world," says Eric Hsu, senior manager, Yahoo! Search Marketing, Yahoo! Southeast Asia.
He adds, "Never before has there been a channel that allows you to search for anything in the world. (Internet) Search is the indispensable local and global highway."
Expressing bullishness on the future of Internet search, he reports, "Globally, Read the rest of this entry »