As the tech world awaits an announcement from Yahoo and Microsoft on their web search and advertising partnership, I’m wondering how such a partnership can achieve its end goal – to loosen Google's stranglehold on the highly lucrative internet search market.
Gmail users may soon lose easy photo sharing, but Yahoo could be the real loser. Which is odd since Yahoo is the aggressor, purchasing the Xoopit photo sharing tool and apparently closing the service to new Gmail users.
Late yesterday, Yahoo announced that it had acquired Xoopit--a company known for its photo management tools--and said it plans to integrate the service as a new feature in Yahoo Mail. Xoopit is the company behind My Photos, a third-party application for Yahoo's e-mail service, but Xoopit is perhaps best known for its file management Firefox add-on for Gmail.
In less than a week, Microsoft could reach an alliance with Yahoo that could compete better with Google in online search advertising, according to media reports.
Smartphone browsers are good enough to deliver Yahoo Mobile, so the search provider has killed off an on-device software version of the product that it was beta testing.
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