Posts Tagged ‘yahoo’

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October 8, 2008 - 1:24 pm PDT - by Adam Ostrow12 Comments

Back in April, Yahoo acquired IndexTools, a provider of analytics software based in Hungary. Today, that service has re-emerged as Yahoo Web Analytics, and is being offered as a limited beta to customers of Yahoo Small Business – the company’s suite of tools for helping small [...]

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September 18, 2008 - 4:47 pm PDT - by Rob Diana 4 Comments

During the Microhoo debacle, everyone was wondering who was going to buy Yahoo. While all eyes were on that, Yahoo has been quietly going about its business. Their business now seems to be wanting to become the [...]

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By RANDALL STROSS
 
Published: September 20, 2008
GOOGLE controls about 70 percent of the search advertising market. Doesn’t that give it a monopolist’s ability to set prices as high as it wishes?

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Brad Smith of Microsoft said Yahoo’s gains would be at the cost of American businesses.

It does not. [...]

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by Michael Arrington on September 21, 2008

Randall Stross at The New York Times goes to bat for the Google/Yahoo search marketing deal, saying there’s “nothing to fear” from the two companies linking their search products. I believe most of his analysis is wrong, and he also skips the publisher side of the market [...]

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by Michael Arrington on September 17, 2008

Yahoo will begin bucket testing a new version of its home page this evening with small percentage of users. The company’s last home page redesign was more than a year ago, and earlier this year Yahoo began integrating third party content onto the site via their new [...]

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By Miguel Helft
In the early hours of Monday morning, the World Association of Newspapers posted a lengthy communique on its Web site calling the Google-Yahoo advertising partnership anti-competitive and urging regulators to block the deal. According to its Web site, the World Association of Newspapers represents 76 national newspaper associations [...]

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By Julian Sanchez | Published: September 16, 2008 - 10:35PM CT
John McCain has caught his share of flak for not knowing his way around e-mail. But as his running mate has been discovering over the past week, being a bit too clever with e-mail has its pitfalls as well. As Sarah Palin seeks [...]