Yahoo has been busily shopping around its assorted businesses—but it's also on the lookout to make an acquisition of its own. Chief Technology Officer Ari Balogh tells Reuters that Yahoo wants to buy a company that would let it become a larger player in social networking.
Yahoo has won a legal battle over removing nude photos that an Oregon woman claimed her boyfriend posted on its Web site without her knowledge or permission.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said again this week that he was interested in some sort of search partnership with Yahoo . But a funny thing happened: Yahoo's stock dropped slightly, a sign that perhaps the market is getting weary of the CEO's vague expressions of interest .
Search-marketing tech firm Efficient Frontier is getting its third CEO in just five years: former *Yahoo* sales vet David Karnstedt. Karnstedt joins the company from Redpoint Ventures, where he'd served as executive-in-residence for about six months.