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Yahoo Messenger
Downloads Yahoo Messenger is a free service that allows you to see when friends come online and to send them instant messages. It also can alert you to new e-mail in your Yahoo Mail or Yahoo Personals accounts, or when you have upcoming events recorded in...
[June 1, 2009, 18:59]
Yahoo matches Gmail gigabyte - but only in China
News Yahoo has increased the storage limit of its free email service tenfold in China, but users elsewhere may not get to enjoy the same benefit anytime soon. While Gmail's trials are confined to a select group, Yahoo's upgrade will be extended to all...
[July 29, 2004, 16:30]
Yahoo desktop search goes mass market
News Yahoo is set to push its Desktop Search program into general availability on Wednesday. Yahoo Desktop Search includes a new feature called LiveWords, which allows people to highlight text within documents and click a button to search for those...
[September 28, 2005, 10:05]
Yahoo snatches up email search company
News Yahoo has quietly purchased email software company Stata Labs, in what could be an investment in a coming PC search tool to rival those of Google and Microsoft. Yahoo apparently bought the underlying technology of Stata Labs and does not intend to...
[October 22, 2004, 9:10]
Yahoo accused of poaching speech engineers
News A California court has temporarily barred about a dozen engineers hired by Yahoo from working on interactive speech technology at the search engine after the company they recently left filed a lawsuit accusing Yahoo of trying to steal trade secrets.
[September 30, 2005, 10:40]
Yahoo buys Flickr
News Yahoo has purchased online photo-sharing service Flickr, less than a week after the Internet giant launched a beta test of a new blogging tool. Joanna Stevens, a spokeswoman for Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo, confirmed the deal Sunday but did...
[March 21, 2005, 8:25]
Yahoo fixes Messenger transfer flaw
Talkback I just ended up sending a file into the Yahoo! OK. black hole. Where does one go to either retrieve or delete the file?
[February 23, 2005, 17:53]
Yahoo and Adobe ally on search
News Yahoo and Adobe have formed a partnership to attempt to keep pace with Google and Microsoft in the search arena. Under the deal, Adobe is adding a toolbar to its Acrobat software that will link to various Yahoo online resources including its search...
[October 25, 2004, 16:45]
Yahoo not supporting Firefox after all
Talkback This article and statement refers to Yahoo's site services which doesn't make it an issue of code interaction; rather the actual site is in question. But that fact aside, Yahoo Music (LaunchCast, whatever.does NOT work under Firefox.
[March 25, 2005, 9:28]
Yahoo gateway blamed for lost customers
News Online brokers sometimes grumble that portal sites charge too much money for the audience they deliver, but now the relationship between brokerage Web Street Securities and portal site Yahoo has turned downright sour.
[November 6, 1998, 9:16]
Yahoo increases 'deep Web' search effort
News Yahoo began testing a service late on Wednesday that allows people to perform simultaneous searches for information contained within subscription-based Web sites. Yahoo Search Subscriptions will allow search access to seven different subscription...
[June 16, 2005, 10:45]
YAHOO Mail too!
Talkback I've been unable to log into my Yahoo mail account for a whole day now. That's just great now that I've routed all my other email accounts through there.
[November 29, 2005, 10:30]
Yahoo, Google 'irresponsible' in China
News Human rights organisation Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has accused two of the biggest names in search -- Yahoo! Such sites disappear from the Chinese language version of Yahoo and a Yahoo-parented search engine, Yisou, while a local search...
[July 27, 2004, 16:45]
Yahoo announces mobile search
News Yahoo added a search feature for cellphones on Wednesday, just a few weeks after rival Google launched one of its own. While Google SMS uses text-only messages to deliver its results, Yahoo's new mobile service offers localised search results, maps...
[October 28, 2004, 8:44]
Yahoo!- GeoCities merger depends on 'pooling of interests'
News Yahoo! Yahoo! Yahoo! The Accounting Principals Board, Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as Yahoo! No pooling, no deal, said Yahoo! The Californian company also voiced concern that the recent...
[February 26, 1999, 16:39]
Yahoo opens up dead Marine's email
News Complying with a court order, Yahoo agreed to give the family of a US Marine killed in Iraq access to the soldier's email. On Wednesday, an Oakland County probate court in Michigan ordered Yahoo to give the contents of the email account to the...
[April 22, 2005, 12:40]
Yahoo! to buy Broadcast.com for $5.7bn
News The leading gateway to text -- and graphic-rich Web sites, Yahoo! That's what Yahoo! The merger is designed to "turbo-ize" Yahoo! Yahoo! Yahoo! Although Yahoo! has been developing a broadband initiative dubbed Turbo Yahoo!
[April 1, 1999, 10:09]
Yahoo faces Flickr rebellion
News Hundreds of members of photo-sharing network Flickr have a nasty message for its new corporate parent Yahoo. In the tradition of acquisitive Internet companies, Yahoo has quietly given notice to users of Flickr, which it bought in March, that it...
[August 30, 2005, 11:20]
Yahoo talks up Open Strategy
News At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, chief technology officer Ari Balogh says he's working on "rewiring Yahoo from the inside out" through a developer platform called "Yahoo Open Strategy". The goal of Yahoo Open Strategy is to help Yahoo's front...
[April 25, 2008, 12:37]
Yahoo! chief executive: Searching for a survivor
News Former BMG Entertainment head Strauss Zelnick has turned down an opportunity to take the helm at Yahoo! Yahoo! The refusal, which came less than a week into a high-profile executive search to replace outgoing Chief Yahoo!
[March 29, 2001, 8:51]
