Aug
27

Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo! buck Google book settlement (BusinessWorld Online)

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WASHINGTON -- Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo! joined an alliance yesterday opposing the legal settlement which would allow Google to digitize and sell millions of books in a move the Internet giant dismissed as "sour grapes."
Aug
10

Yahoo! Finds More People Coupon Hunting Online (Progressive Grocer)

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According to Yahoo!, its new Yahoo! Deals Web site, which offers shoppers coupons, information about promotions, sales, and tips on saving money, the service aims to fill a surging demand for cost-saving ideas. Company research showed that searches for the term “printable coupons” are up 50 percent this year vs. the same time in 2008 and up 135 percent compared to 2007.
Aug
9

Yahoo comes full circle (Independent Online)

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Yahoo invested billions of dollars in its Internet search engine during the past six years before realising it made more sense to entrust the job to an outsider.
Aug
1

Yahoo’s Search Pad will organize online searches (Grand Forks Herald)

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Yahoo launched a new feature to its searching service this July called Search Pad, which can remember and organize your information as you comb cyberspace looking for answers. Save time & money! J S HOME INSPECTIONS - Ends Aug 16, 2009
Jul
30

Behind Microsoft-Yahoo: The Online Economics of Scale (New York Times)

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In their persuasion assault on Wednesday, Carol A. Bartz and Steven A. Ballmer repeatedly explained the Microsoft-Yahoo deal using a term from classical economics: “scale.”
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