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Tuesday, May 29, 2012 12:34 pm
With an estimated 70 million people using the internet in the Middle East and an additional 50 million expected to come online in the next three years, the Arabic speaking region is very important to Yahoo! That’s why we invested in the Yahoo! Maktoob portal nearly three years ago, and why we’re entering into another [...]
Full ArticleTuesday, May 29, 2012 10:49 am
Get ready to get Plugged In! Today, Yahoo!, along with Ford, launched “Plugged In” on Yahoo! Screen featuring celebrity hosts and the all-new Focus Electric, Ford’s first all-electric, gas-free passenger car. Check it out at http://screen.yahoo.com/pluggedin/ Tune in every Tuesday as three teams of two people compete in celebrity-hosted challenges in the biggest cities across [...]
Full ArticleFriday, May 25, 2012 11:31 am
It’s undeniable that people everywhere will eventually use the Web more on connected devices like phones, tablets and TVs than they do on PCs. Because of this, we at Yahoo! believe it’s important to foster innovation amongst the mobile and TV developer community. We want to encourage development of apps that communicate across all your [...]
Full ArticleFriday, May 25, 2012 11:30 am
As announced during our most recent earnings call, we’ve decided to discontinue or consolidate a number of products across Yahoo!’s technology platforms over the course of 2012. Platform consolidation enables us to put many Yahoo! properties onto common key platforms and technologies to make everything more scalable and nimble. And when we discontinue products, it [...]
Full ArticleThursday, May 24, 2012 11:00 am
This week, we’re introducing not just one, but two innovative new mobile experiences. Yesterday, we announced Yahoo! Axis, a whole new way to search and browse the Web on iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Today, Yahoo! is bringing a new travel experience to market — Yahoo! TimeTraveler, the ideal app for people who find themselves [...]
Full ArticleWednesday, May 23, 2012 9:00 pm
Today we’re excited to launch a whole new way to search and browse the Web across any device—Yahoo! Axis. It’s an innovative new mobile browser and desktop plug-in that gives people visual search results (as they type), ultimately providing a more direct path to whatever they’re looking for online. Think of it as a personal [...]
Full ArticleTuesday, May 22, 2012 2:07 pm
Earlier this month, Yahoo!, the creator and leader in hosting innovative Hackdays, teamed up with world advertising and marketing leader WPP for the agency’s (and Yahoo!’s) first-ever Agency Hackday in New York City. Challenging WPP’s developers and designers from all over the world with either solving a problem in the digital media marketplace or creating [...]
Full ArticleTuesday, May 22, 2012 10:00 am
A key milestone in the evolution of the Internet is just around the corner with the World IPv6 Launch. IPv6 is the next generation Internet Protocol, the underlying network that connects us on the Internet. Yahoo!, along with many other leading web sites (including Bing, Facebook, and Google), will be adding IPv6 support permanently. This [...]
Full ArticleThursday, May 17, 2012 1:10 pm
Today, two of the biggest movie stars on the planet, Will Smith and Josh Brolin, visited our London office to meet staff and competition winners and take part in an exclusive interview for Yahoo! Movies. As part of the UK’s ongoing partnership with Sony Pictures, Yahoo! UK was named the exclusive online media partner for [...]
Full ArticleTuesday, May 15, 2012 12:15 pm
On May 7, Yahoo! employees in our Sunnyvale headquarters partnered with the Lincoln Intelligence Project in their search for “America’s Best and Smartest” company. The event provided an opportunity for Yahoos to earn “points” for the company and donations for our chosen charity by learning more about Lincoln’s newest line. The Event For one day [...]
Full ArticleFriday, May 11, 2012 12:46 pm
Ad Tech of the Week: Pirates! Take Over Yahoo! Kids Sony Pictures plunders the Kids homepage with a full page overlay for its new animated summer movie treasure. Arrrrrgggg you ready for summer movie season? We hope so because Sony has set sail to a silver screen near you with a galleon for all ages [...]
Full ArticleThursday, May 10, 2012 7:12 pm
It’s no secret that Yahoos are full of great ideas – and they are ready to prove it! Every quarter some of the greatest minds at Yahoo! come together for a 24-hour hackathon that merges coding, collaboration and creativity to find Yahoo!’s next best products, features and designs. This techie slumber party, otherwise known as [...]
Full ArticleThursday, May 10, 2012 8:00 am
Do you dream of living the exclusive life of a Hamptonite? Well, that dream can soon be your reality. ABC and IntoNow from Yahoo! are teaming up for a first-ever, second screen sweepstakes around ABC’s hit prime-time drama, Revenge. One lucky fan will win a get-away for two and live the life of a Grayson [...]
Full ArticleTuesday, May 8, 2012 1:22 pm
Four years ago, Kyle was fighting for his country as a Marine in Iraq. But when a roadside bomb left him seriously injured, Kyle was faced with the challenge of returning home to his family without the use of his hand, which was severely damaged by a bomb and later amputated. Suddenly, Kyle found himself [...]
Full ArticleMonday, May 7, 2012 10:40 am
Each month nearly 50 million fans come to Yahoo! Sports, the No. 1 leader for online sports coverage, to find up-to-the-minute news, scores, and stats – and college fans are no different. College sports fans depend on Yahoo! Sports’ college destination Rivals.com, the dominant provider for team sites and recruiting coverage. Rivals already offers the [...]
Full ArticleFriday, May 4, 2012 10:26 am
Acura unveils its RDX compact crossover SUV with a syncronized rich media roadblock on Movies that’s hardly Lilliputian. As a crossover vehicle, Acura’s second generation RDX (“intelligently built for the size of your life”) is big enough for Brobdingnag while compact enough for Lilliput. So it’s appropriate that the miniature inhabitants of the latter land [...]
Full ArticleThursday, May 3, 2012 2:45 pm
With Earth Day past us, our commitment to environmental responsibility is top of mind here at Yahoo!, so we thought we’d share some little-known facts about our energy consumption: 56% of Yahoo!’s electricity demand at our data centers is met with renewable energy Yahoo! has built some of the world’s most efficient facilities with a [...]
Full ArticleThursday, May 3, 2012 11:00 am
April showers bring May’s… Product Pulse! Flickr is having a busy month rolling out a series of new product updates and features — from introducing a new way to upload photos on your Android, to ensuring that Flickr users get proper attribution for their photos posted to Pinterest. Love Yahoo! Screen’s original hit web shows? Stay tuned [...]
Full ArticleWednesday, May 2, 2012 1:41 pm
For one night every year, journalists, celebrities and politicians collide for the annual White House Correspondents dinner. This star-studded event is one of Washington’s most eagerly anticipated events – and this year, Yahoo! had front row seats. Yahoo! News enjoyed its first-ever appearance at the 98th annual White House Correspondents Dinner on April 28th – [...]
Full ArticleWednesday, May 2, 2012 6:00 am
A free offering that changes the way small business manage their online marketing and reputation Today, Yahoo! Small Business launched the Yahoo! Marketing Dashboard, a free tool that helps entrepreneurs discover new marketing opportunities to grow their businesses, while getting a comprehensive picture of their marketing results, online reputations, and website performance, all in one [...]
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