Yahoo! Updates

Yahoo! Japan posts record profits
Yahoo! Japan has posted record profits for the fiscal second quarter. The company continues to gain from improvements in online advertisement and auctions.
Yahoo! Japan has posted a 22.1 percent jump in net profit to 13.60 billion yen in the most recent quarter. These profits are on revenues which itself rose 24.5 [...]

http://broadbandforum.co/1255/yahoo-japan/
 
Yahoo! to give out $50,000 as reward in a video talent show
Google might have managed to acquire YouTube.com but Yahoo! has taken the initiative by inviting users to upload videos showcasing their talents.
Web users and a panel of judges would vote on these videos and the winner of this contest would win $50,000 and [...]

https://broadband.forum/4580/yahoo-talent-show/
 
Yahoo! Video sharing now targets European market
Internet Company Yahoo! has said that they are now launching country specific portals of their Video website in Europe.
They have now launched local Yahoo Video websites in France, Spain, Germany and Italy.
The company said that each of these websites is being customized to the individual country’s [...]

https://broadband.forum/4620/yahoo-video-europe/
 
Yahoo! launches Yahoo! Food
Internet giants Yahoo! has launched its own Food section as it aims to increase its readership and stay ahead of the competition including MSN, AOL and Google.
The company is now launching a food Web site which would feature recipes and videos of celebrity chefs.
The service would also allow users to share and [...]

https://broadband.forum/4628/yahoo-food/
 
Yahoo! Autos Green Center: Portal on alternative-fuel vehicles
Internet giants Yahoo! has announced the launch of a new section devoted to automobiles which runs on alternative fuel.
This section has been named Yahoo! Autos Green Center. The company promises that the visitors to this section would get comprehensive, unbiased, data about such vehicles available in the market.
They [...]

https://broadband.forum/4634/yahoo-autos-green-center/
 

Yahoo! planning to expand mobile telephone advertising network
Internet Company Yahoo! has said that they are now planning to expand its mobile telephone advertising network.
They would now test out more visually appealing messages. This comes after the company began delivering short, written messages to mobile phones. It used the same algorithms used by its Internet [...]

https://broadband.forum/4658/mobile-advertising-network/
 
Yahoo! planning to acquire Bix.com
Internet Company Yahoo! has announced their plans to acquire Bix.com website, which allow web users to create online contests.
This could soon become yet another service offering from the web’s most popular website, which is facing intense competition from Google, MSN and AOL.
Mike Speiser, Bix.com’s president and chief executive confirmed that [...]

https://broadband.forum/4718/yahoo-bix.com/
 
Yahoo! working with seven newspaper groups to share online advertising
Internet giants Yahoo! has said that they would soon start working with as many as seven newspaper groups in the country to share online advertising. This might help the newspaper companies to get an entry into the more profitable online advertising.
News report claims that this [...]

http://broadbandforum.co/1397/yahoo-n...ne-advertising/
 
Xie Wen quits as the president of Yahoo! China
Yahoo China has announced that their president Xie Wen has resigned from his position in the company. Surprisingly, Wen had taken up this position just 40 days back.
Wen was the chief executive of Chinese financial Web portal Hexun.com before he joined Yahoo! China as the president.
The company [...]

http://broadbandforum.co/1452/xie-wen-quits/
 
Nokia planning to offer more Yahoo! services on their mobile phones
World’s leading mobile phone maker Nokia has said that they would be providing more Yahoo! powered services on their mobile phones.
The two companies are now expanding their collaborating and now Nokia would offer services like e-mail and messaging on new Nokia phones.
These new services would [...]

http://broadbandforum.co/1465/nokia-p...fer-more-yahoo/
 
Mixd: Yahoo! also launches their own social networking service
Internet giant Yahoo! has launched an experimental social networking service for their users. This service allows mobile-phone subscribers the ability to send text messages and share videos and pictures.
However, they have not really promoted this service like their other services. They are instead targeting college campuses around [...]

https://broadband.forum/4774/mixd-yahoo/
 
Witness News: Reuters and Yahoo! now accepting user submitted content for news items
Internet giants Yahoo! are collaborating with news service Reuters to launch a new service, which accepts content from the web users, which can be used on their news reports.
They are going to launch this service named Witness News that would accept photos taken [...]

https://broadband.forum/4803/witness-news/
 
Yahoo! to reorganize in order to compete better with rivals including Google
Internet giants Yahoo! have revealed a reorganization plan, which places Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker as a potential successor to the company’s CEO position.
The company also aims to make their internal structure simpler as they aim to compete with rivals including Google and MSN.
Susan [...]

http://broadbandforum.co/1511/yahoo-to-reorganize/
 
Yahoo! targeting Filipino web users with Pinoy Connect project
Internet giants Yahoo! has announced a special project aimed at servicing Filipino overseas workers. This project has been named “Pinoy Connect” and it would include a special website designed to meet the requirements of Filipinos who are working abroad.
This new site would be hosted on their Philippines [...]

https://broadband.forum/4817/pinoy-connect-yahoo/
 

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