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Yahoo’s Late Entry in Video Content Won’t Matter, Believes Vishal M
2012-02-07 07:10:00 We had recently reported about the Yahoo’s entry into Video Content Delivery for Indians. Mr. Vishal Maheshwari [VS] spoke to Pravda Godbole [PG] of Business Standard. Below are some excerpts. PG inquired exactly what we had been wondering. Won’t the late entry prove the reason for being sidetracked? VS reasoned that it won’t because Yahoo is not just a simple Video sharing website. Its proposition is to offer “strictly original, fully licensed video content”. Yahoo believes there is a huge demand for “premium licensed video content in India”. Yahoo has taken the first initiative to offer just that. How does Yahoo go about doing that? As a premium video destination, Yahoo will not wait for up loaders. Further Yahoo, won’t simply bombard its users with random videos. Its Content Optimization Relevance Engine (CORE) will offer personalization, helping users discover content of their interest. Content like full-length movies, Bollywood, sports, news, lifestyle...
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Yahoo To Start Inserting Ads To Its Media Content. Get Ready For Commercial
2012-01-24 07:59:00 Yahoo! will soon offer Marketing agencies an opportunity to insert their advertisements into Yahoo’s multimedia content. A while ago, Yahoo had made foray, albeit late into the world of online streaming of movies. Yahoo, at that time claimed it was doing so to offer original & professionally created content to its audiences. Now we know why it had intended to do so. At that time it even offered a web-exclusive release of Super-K an animation film. Yahoo had been planning this for quite some time. We had first reported Yahoo’s spreading of its wings in Sep 2011. Hence this should not come as surprise. Especially when Ad-spends in India, though are rising, the online display advertising business is a dismal 3.7 per cent of the total budget allocated for putting across products & brands. With gross under monetization of this lucrative, yet untapped field, Yahoo! has as its audience of about 30 Million Internet users who regularly consume online video content. In terms of c...
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War Of Search Giants: Bing Beats Yahoo To Snag Second Place
2012-01-16 11:03:00 In the war of search engines comScore has revealed that Microsoft’s Bing has just surpassed Yahoo! Search. Bing & other MS sites fielded 2.75 Billion search requests as against Yahoo’s 2.65 Billion. In terms of US market’s share it was 15.1 % against 14.5% respectively. However, these two are nowhere near even when clubbed together against Google’s 12 Billion search requests or a whopping 66%. We tried to analyze the reasons for this upsurge: Yahoo has signed a 10 Year deal with Microsoft. With this deal Yahoo has tried to save money by relying on Microsoft to provide the bulk of its search technology. Microsoft actually gained from this deal by getting more requests to process and analyze over time. What this meant was Microsoft got ample opportunity to understand search preferences & trends. The Bing program has been bleeding money to the tune of US$ 7 Billion. This news could offer some solace to the company that heavily relies on Windows Operating Software &...
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Baby Name Hoaxes ? Barack, Yahoo, Yasir
2012-01-11 11:00:00 Monday’s post mentioned fake requests for baby names, so today let’s continue the theme and talk about fake baby names. I know of three: 1. Carter Barack Obama Sealy In November, 2008, Colorado father Roger Sealy told the Boulder Daily … Continue reading →
Iran reports nuclear progress as sanctions loom ? Yahoo! News
2012-01-01 21:59:00 Iran announced a nuclear fuel breakthrough and test-fired a new radar-evading medium-range missile in the Gulf on Sunday, moves that could further antagonize the West at a time when Tehran is trying to avert harsh new sanctions on its oil industry. U.S. President Barack Obama signed a law on Saturday imposing tougher financial sanctions to ...
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Will Google, Amazon, and Facebook Black Out the Net?
2011-12-30 20:41:00 Is this what you want to see when you click on your favorite web site? It could happen, especially if Hollywood and the recording industry have their way. Will Google, Amazon, and Facebook Black Out the Net? In the growing … Continue reading →
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Yahoo Offers Shared News Through Facebook Integration: Following Google&rsq
2011-12-27 10:38:00 A new “Activity” feature launched by Yahoo will feature news stories read & shared by friends through Facebook. A move closely resembling Google’s +1’d content that featured articles read & shared by Google’s users, Yahoo, which recently supported Microsoft, seems to have put the ubiquitous “Like” button of Facebook to good use. It today announced a deeper collaboration with Facebook whereby it offered a deeply personalized, social news experience to over 7 million unique visitors of Yahoo! India News. Yahoo! Activity, as the feature is called, is an opt-in service, which lets users discover news articles their friends have read and automatically share what they are reading with their Facebook network, in a seamless manner.“As the world’s most popular online news destination, Yahoo! News delivers the most compelling content on the Web through a combination of local editors, advanced technologies, and now, your friends,” said Blake Irving, Chief Product O...
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Second Sign-in Verification Login to secure your Yahoo Mail [Beta]
2011-12-25 11:03:00 Google has started the 2-steps verification login since February 2011. It is a wonderful security feature and it is a great relief to many that have their sensitive personal and business data rely mostly on Google services. To those who …
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Yahoo Ponders Over Reducing It’s 40% Stake In Alibaba
2011-12-23 12:45:00 Internet giant Yahoo is considering selling a part of its stake in Alibaba, recent reports say. The recently troubled company has a 40% stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and is mulling over the prospect of cutting down the share to 15%. Yahoo had acquired a 40% stake in Alibaba, based in Hangzhou, eastern China, for about $1 billion in 2005. Alibaba, China’s biggest e-commerce company, wants to re-purchase its share in a tax-free manner from Yahoo. The deal values the assets at about $14 dollars a Yahoo share, pitching the Yahoo stake at about $17 billion. Yahoo would also sell off its stake in Yahoo Japan Corp. Alibaba doubled its efforts to buy back its share after the September sacking of its CEO, Carol Bartz, who had opposed the sale. With the change in management, the deal is moving forward, reports say. If it could, Yahoo would have wanted to hold on to it for a few more years. China’s e-commerce is entering a period of structured growth. Alibaba, through its Ta...
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Yahoo Hub: Nuevo servicio de mensajera instantnea para mviles
2011-12-12 14:40:00 Si tienes un telfono inteligente te habrs dado cuenta que existen muchos servicios y clientes de mensajera instantnea que permiten comunicarte con tus amigos y familiares. Yahoo no quiso quedarse atrs en este aspecto y present Yahoo Hub, una aplicacin de mensajera instantnea que podrs utilizar casi en cualquier telfono, permitindote hablar con tus amigos ... Artículos Relacionados Instantbird: Un nuevo cliente de mensajera instantnea Messenger y Mensajera Instantnea para Celulares Rene mensajera instantnea, redes sociales y correo en un solo lugar con LiveGo
Yahoo Goes Super Local! Supports 8 Indian Languages
2011-12-08 14:15:00 After almost 5 years, since Yahoo Mail was made available in Hindi, it has today announced support for 7 more Indian Languages apart from Hindi. Yahoo is facing imminent threat from Microsoft, has made Yahoo Mail available in 8 local languages namely, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali, Marathi, and Gujarati. This is just a subset of Yahoo’s revamped Global rollout across 70 markets worldwide, 27 of which are simultaneous, including 22 new languages, in 16 new countries. The Yahoo Website is already available in Hindi, Marathi and Tamil. Users who wish to switch over to the new languages, can simply head over to Account Settings of their Yahoo Profile, add their preferred language and hit the ‘Save’ button. We think that initially at least, Yahoo, who fiercely protects its users, should have made the language switch accessible on the main landing page. Going local is vital for reconnect with the users feels Nitin Mathur, Senior Director, Marketing, Yahoo! Ind...
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Posicionamiento web para Bing y Yahoo, empieza a hacerlo ya! [SEO]
2011-12-06 00:14:00 Como consultor en posicionamiento web (SEO), todos mis clientes me contactan buscando que su sitio aparezca en las mejores posiciones posibles en Google. Para gran parte de los usuarios de la web, “buscador” o “motor de bsqueda” es sinnimo de … Continue reading →Este es un post de ILMAISTRO.COM, Blog de Tecnologia. Suscribirse via RSS. Sígueme en Twitter, Facebook o en Google+.Posicionamiento web para Bing y Yahoo, empieza a hacerlo ya! [SEO]
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Yahoo Ready To Fight The Govt For User Privacy: Protecting Terrorists?
2011-11-28 01:30:00 Yahoo is in no mood to toe the line set by the Government of India. It has now approached the Delhi HC against the order of the Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA). The Government of India attempted to make Yahoo an example for not complying with its rules. It had earlier slapped Rs. 11 Lakh as penalty for its failure to provide email information of persons in national interest. Government of India had asked Yahoo to surrender information of about 11 Yahoo IDs & the IP addresses through which they were accessed. These ids are supposedly used by Islamic terrorists and Maoists & GoI felt it could invoke the Section 28 of the Information Technology (IT) Act on the grounds of National Security. Yahoo refused to comply or pay the fine stating it was bound by confidentiality agreements & that could not be breached. GoI did not buy the argument & slapped the fine. All this started when GoI received large number of emails that claimed responsibility for the Delhi...
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El adios a Yahoo Site Explorer. Otras alternativas para el anlisis de back
2011-11-26 05:07:00 El 21 de Noviembre pasado se anunci la “muerte” de una de las herramientas bsicas en el arsenal de todo SEO: Yahoo Site Explorer. Esta herramienta de acceso pblico y gratuito permita ver rpidamente todos los enlaces entrantes hacia una … Continue reading →Este es un post de ILMAISTRO.COM, Blog de Tecnologia. Suscribirse via RSS. Sígueme en Twitter, Facebook o en Google+.El adios a Yahoo Site Explorer. Otras alternativas para el anlisis de backlinks.
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Microsoft’s Attempts Again To Gobble-Up Yahoo: Signs Non-Disclosure A
2011-11-25 07:30:00 Despite losing in its US$44.6 billion attempt to acquire the company in 2008, Microsoft has reportedly signed a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) that will allow it to take a closer look at Yahoo! Inc.’s financial information to help it consider financing a bid. Microsoft, along-with private equity firms Silver Lake and TPG Capital are keenly interested in a trove of riches that could be unlocked by providing stronger management to the failing internet giant. Today’s Yahoo is certainly in a much weaker position than it was in 2008, having fallen behind Google and newer Internet players like Facebook. However, Yahoo still remains a formidable entity, with its News site alone getting 81.2 million unique visitors in August & there are attempts to get back on track. However, this time around, the signing of NDA is not for Microsoft’s own takeover attempt. It seems the agreement is to help others or a team to consider acquisition. A growing number of parties have reportedly signe...
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Yahoo! India Launches Free Video Service: Why Such A Late Entry?
2011-11-23 14:18:00 When it comes to video services on the web, Youtube takes the cake. They have a staggering amount of content and live-streams and have grown tremendously in the Indian market with so many brands running campaigns on the site. Now Yahoo! has stepped into the arena with the launch of their newest video service. You must be thinking that ‘Aren’t these guys a little late to the party?’ Yes, they are but this video service might still have some potential. The distinction between Yahoo! Video and Youtube is that Yahoo! Video will only feature licensed and original videos whereas Youtube has all kinds of licensed and user generated content. In order to set this up, Yahoo! India has collaborated with 35 content providers including NDTV, Star TV, Shemaroo and others. That looks like a pretty solid line-up. This will the key to Yahoo! Video’s success in India. Yahoo has previously launched Movieplex which provides users with full length movies for free. This was a move to counter Yo...
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Spain?s Socialists Ousted in Landslide; Doesn?t Make AOL/Yahoo! Headlines
2011-11-20 23:36:00 Seems Instapundit is a better source for news than either AOL or Yahoo! Glenn reports that “SPAIN?S SOCIALISTSlose in a landslide. Spanish voters, tired of war, got rid of Aznar and brought in people promising hope and change. Now they?re broke, and the Socialists are out.” Now, this seems to be pretty big news. A ...
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Yahoo! India To Feature 3D Film ‘Super K’ By Shemaroo
2011-11-15 06:30:00 Yahoo! India keeps surprising us. A while ago, it appeared that Yahoo was slowly removing its hand from India strategically. However, signing-up with OLX.in & this announcement of hosting of a 95 Minute feature film made by Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd, it has kind of reassured us that Yahoo is still very much interested in India. Taking a feather from Disney, Yahoo’s online Movie sub-portal Yahoo! Multiplex, will host CGI (Computer Graphics) infused 3D animation film ‘Super K’ made especially for children, for FREE viewing. The typical super-hero film (accessible in both English and Hindi) explores escapades in Dreamzone. Jai Maroo, executive of Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd said , “An online premiere is insubordinate in a universe of animation cinema in India and quite timely given children currently are spending poignant time on a Internet. Shemaroo has always been during a forefront of a change to on-demand digital party and we are happy to support to this ever augmentin...
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Yahoo India Enters Into Ad Partnership With OLX.in
2011-11-14 06:12:00 Yahoo India has entered in an annual advertising partnership with classified portal OLX.in. As per the partnership, OLX.in will get a permanent presence on the homepage of Yahoo India under the section ‘Featured Partners’. The link on the Yahoo homepage will direct Yahoo users to OLX.in. Yahoo will also leverage display advertising capabilities on its premium media and communication properties to help OLX grow its brand and consumers in India. OLX, Inc., founded in 2006, is a US based free classifieds company which has presence in 96 countries. The portal catering to Indian users has classifieds under the sections such as For Sale, Vehicles, Real Estate, Classes, Community, Services, Matrimonial, Jobs, etc. It can even be accessed in local languages such as Marathi, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. “Yahoo is best positioned to connect brands with the right target audience. OLX’s permanent presence on India’s most visited homepage will provide it with access to...
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Yahoo Buys Interclick To Boost Ad Data
2011-11-02 07:05:00 Yahoo Inc has confirmed that it has acquired data management platform Interclick for $270 million. Under the deal, Yahoo is offering Interclick shareholders $9 a share, 22% higher to the stock’s value. Yahoo expects to close the acquisition by early 2012. Commenting on the acquisition Ross Levinsohn, Executive Vice President for Yahoo’s America regions, said in a statement, “Interclick’s innovative platform will allow Yahoo! to expand its targeting and data capabilities to deliver campaigns with stronger performance metrics.” A mere 4 Year old venture, Interclick amassed about $53 million in the first half of 2011. It specializes in analysis and identification of the most responsive audiences for marketing through digital media. Interclick provides a number of solutions for display advertising which include an Open Segment Manger, ATS 5/VTS (which controls the ad exchanges), and Marshall (which reports on user activity). This acquisition, which, as per value, is...
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Yahoo Saying “Alvida” To India… Dumps Its Stake In Tyroo, Callezee
2011-10-21 12:48:00 Right on the heels of dumping stake in Bharatmatrimony, Yahoo is all set to bid its farewell to its Joint Ventures in India. Yahoo India has just announced that it is moving out of strategic investments in India - Tyroo and Callezee. The company’s board, as part of a Global Clean-up Plan, approved the complete divestment in India three weeks ago. The love story of Yahoo with India had begun in 2006 & matured in 2008. Subsequently, the 12% stake in Bharatmatrimony was offloaded in October 2011 to Bessemer Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund and Canaan Partners for INR 100 Crores. Yahoo is now about to finalize a deal for Tyroo and Callezee with Xplorer Capital, a fund floated by none other than former Yahoo employees including former senior VP Keith Nilsson! Gurgaon-based Tyroo, an online advertising network, had received Yahoo funding (Yahoo had acquired around 35% stake) in 2007 and has since grown to become the second biggest online advertisement network in India &...
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Yahoo Abandons BharatMatrimony For An Amount Of 100 Crores
2011-10-14 14:38:00 Yahoo India, who was a 12% Stake holder in Consim Info has sold the same to Bessemer Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund and Canaan Partners for Rs 100Cr ($20mn). Though Mayfield & Canadian Partners are prevailing stake-holders, Bessemer Venture Partners is the only new joinee. By this calculation, BharatMatrimony, the online portal for finding brides & grooms of Indian community / origin is currently valued at a whopping 900 Crores! (USD 190 million). Bharat Matrimony aims to leveraging the power of technology and the Internet preserving the sanity. With over 2300 affiliates, the company recently extended its services to cater to the NRI community by setting up operations in USA, Dubai and Canada. The marriage portal also launched its new gift service & it also brought out another wedding portal called matrimonial matter.com. That said, BharatMatrimony did face some financial troubles earlier, but that was a mere speed-bump in its ambitious plans to cater to a wide var...
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Lokmat Finds A Second Home On Yahoo And Will Utilise It To Launch Marathi C
2011-10-04 14:29:00 Yahoo! India & Marathi newspaper Lokmat, have announced a partnership to launch a Marathi content “destination” Lokmat.yahoo.com. As per the latest Indian Readership Survey 2011 Lokmat is the largest read Regional Language (Marathi) in India. (Top position is occupied by a Malayali daily: Malayala Manorama). Though Lokmat has its own e-paper (epaper.lokmat.com) for worldwide Marathi public, one has to ask: Why did they tie-up with Yahoo for “another” parallel edition/online destination? The answer is simple: For mutual synergistic growth. Yahoo has garnered a lot of expertise of Online business (with focus on advertising). Our readers will surely remember Google tried to buy Yahoo sometime back! Further Yahoo is always trying to further its footprint in India. A while back Yahoo had announced its plans to Focus more on Advanced search & Mobiles in India Now, Lokmat may have has a lot of hard-copy readership, but its online site seems to be read by a very few peopl...
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Lokmat Finds A Second Home On Yahoo And Will Utilise It To Launch Marathi C
2011-10-04 14:29:00 Yahoo! India & Marathi newspaper Lokmat, have announced a partnership to launch a Marathi content “destination” Lokmat.yahoo.com. As per the latest Indian Readership Survey 2011 Lokmat is the largest read Regional Language (Marathi) in India. (Top position is occupied by a Malayali daily: Malayala Manorama). Though Lokmat has its own e-paper (epaper.lokmat.com) for worldwide Marathi public, one has to ask: Why did they tie-up with Yahoo for “another” parallel edition/online destination? The answer is simple: For mutual synergistic growth. Yahoo has garnered a lot of expertise of Online business (with focus on advertising). Our readers will surely remember Google tried to buy Yahoo sometime back! Further Yahoo is always trying to further its footprint in India. A while back Yahoo had announced its plans to Focus more on Advanced search & Mobiles in India Now, Lokmat may have has a lot of hard-copy readership, but its online site seems to be read by a very few peopl...
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Lokmat Finds A Second Home On Yahoo And Will Use It To Launch Marathi Conte
2011-10-04 10:45:00 Yahoo! India & Marathi newspaper Lokmat, have announced a partnership to launch a Marathi content “destination” Lokmat.yahoo.com. Lokmat is a leading Marathi daily newspaper and as per the latest Indian Readership Survey 2011 Lokmat is largest read Regional Language (Marathi) in India. (Top position is occupied by a Malayali daily: Malayala Manorama). Though Lokmat has its own e-paper (epaper.lokmat.com) for worldwide Marathi public, one has to ask: Why did they tie-up with Yahoo for “another” parallel edition/online destination? The answer is simple: For mutual synergistic growth. Yahoo has garnered a lot of expertise of Online business (with focus on advertising). Our readers will surely remember Google tried to buy Yahoo sometime back! Further Yahoo is always trying to further its footprint in India. A while back Yahoo had announced its plans to Focus more on Advanced search & Mobiles in India Now, Lokmat may have has a lot of hard-copy readership, but its online...
By: WATblog
Yahoo Plans To Upgrade; Will Focus On Advanced Search & Mobiles In Indi
2011-09-30 09:18:00 Yahoo is all set to implement a road map that aims at improving its service in India and snatching away market share from rivals. Yahoo has struggled to gain foothold in the country after losing out to Google and Microsoft. Not many people use Yahoo services, but Yahoo India is ready to change all that by introducing a plethora of new features. Just yesterday we reported that Yahoo unveiled the Flicker application for Android users. Flikr has been one of Yahoo’s safe bets as many appreciate and use the service. Over the years, a great number of features have also been added to Flicker to make it compete against Picasa and Facebook photos. Another great feature advanced search feature, Search Direct, that was launched earlier this year in the west, will be available to the Indian users early next year. Direct Search provides answers to the users directly while reducing the number of links the user has to go through before arriving upon the needful answer. In addition, it also ...
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Yahoo Plans To Upgrade; Will Focus On Advanced Search & Mobiles In Indi
2011-09-30 09:18:00 Yahoo is all set to implement a road map that aims at improving its service in India and snatching away market share from rivals. Yahoo has struggled to gain foothold in the country after losing out to Google and Microsoft. Not many people use Yahoo services, but Yahoo India is ready to change all that by introducing a plethora of new features. Just yesterday we reported that Yahoo unveiled the Flicker application for Android users. Flikr has been one of Yahoo’s safe bets as many appreciate and use the service. Over the years, a great number of features have also been added to Flicker to make it compete against Picasa and Facebook photos. Another great feature advanced search feature, Search Direct, that was launched earlier this year in the west, will be available to the Indian users early next year. Direct Search provides answers to the users directly while reducing the number of links the user has to go through before arriving upon the needful answer. In addition, it also ...
By: WATblog
Unisys Will Start Streaming 200 Movies On Youtube BoxOffice & Yahoo Mov
2011-09-23 13:21:00 Unisys Infosolutions, (digital VAS content and enterprise messaging solutions) have just acquired the rights to stream 200 full-length movies on online movie hosting sites like Youtube BoxOffice and Yahoo Movies. Speaking about the acquisition, Shelley Chaudhary, founder and managing director of the company said, “The acquisition of over 200 movie rights is a step ahead in meeting the channel’s goal of offering unmatched premium content to our viewers. More than 100 of these full-length videos will be available on Youtube BoxOffice and Yahoo! Movies by month-end itself.” Consumption of digital content has hit the roof in India. Companies and people are realizing that the transition from mainline media to digital media will happen soon and this is the perfect opportunity to leverage from it. Streaming is a very good solution as opposed to buying physical CDs/DVDs or downloading the movie. This insight led Netflix to start streaming movies in USA. Indian companies should ...
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Yahoo Perfecting New Content Strategy And D-Link Is There To Help
2011-09-15 12:34:00 Yahoo is taking a step towards providing users with more multimedia content in hopes of winning a bigger chunk easy-media consuming users online, in India. Two latest developments have been reported. Curate video content and provide free video streaming on the site A collaboration with D-Link Curating Video Content Just a few weeks back, Yahoo had a catalogue of Hindi cinema called MoviePlex. The minimalistic library of MoviePlex was in no way comparable to that of Netflix of United States. Yahoo.in will soon be getting a video section that will curate sports highlights from Zee-Ten Sports, stand-up comedy acts, etc. In a separate announcement, Yahoo India said they will be offering regional (Tamil) content to their users in India and internationally. If Yahoo is really looking to make its mark as an online multimedia company, they need to continue tying-up with big brands and pioneer a web streaming business model in India. Collaboration with D-Link Talking of Yahoo collaboratio...
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Yahoo Dragged To Court For Not Providing Govt Requested E-mail Details
2011-09-15 10:34:00 In a landmark judgment which might set a precedent for cyber security, The Delhi High Court has stayed an order by the Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA), which asked Yahoo India to pay Rs 11 lakh as penalty. According to the CCA, the penalty is for the failure to provide personal email details to protect “national interests”. The government sought these confidential details from CCA about some individuals, who in turn asked Yahoo India to furnish the same. Yahoo India however did not provide the information and was fined under Section 28 of the Information Technology (IT) Act. No Wrongdoing on our part, says Yahoo On behalf of Yahoo India, former solicitor general Gopal Subramanium was adamant that the firm had complied with the provision of Section 69 of the IT Act and had provided the information. “CCA is not authorized to impose a fine or penalty,” said Yahoo India. This was further opposed by the CCA saying that it had asked for collection of information, but S...
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Yahoo Powers Bing To Take On Google
2011-09-09 14:39:00 Latest news says that Yahoo’s organic search results are scheduled for transition to Microsoft Bing for the Indian market by mid-September, 2011. Recent statistics have shown some interesting happenings in the search engine world. In March 2011 – Bing surpasses Yahoo! as second most popular search engine worldwide and in month of August 2011 – Yahoo, Bing Beat Google in Search Success Rate. With competitors like Yahoo and Bing, Google always has its hands full in trying to improve not only search results but also appropriate companies to acquire, and they have done well in both. News from rival camp, especially Yahoo, has a tendency of not being that upbeat. Two days back Yahoo made news for terminating CEO Carol Bartz. She had been instrumental in bringing about the collaboration deal with Microsoft Bing to fruition. Agreements of the deal are in practice now and Yahoo data has been powering Bing web master tools for a small time now. Back in August 2010, Yahoo! announce...
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Video Cara Membuat Email di Yahoo.com
2011-07-24 14:51:00 Berikut ini adalah video tutorial cara membuat email di yahoo.com, semoga vide ini bisa membantu buat teman blogger semua.
Yahoo Clues – Re Launched
2011-07-01 12:47:00 Yahoo has re-launched Yahoo Clues, a web based trending service that allows users to see what other people are searching on the web. The product initially was launched last year in November. This is being seen as a move which would bring Yahoo and Google head to head for another showdown. A revamp of the original product on part of Yahoo includes expansion from the initial single page version to include information on searches executed globally with the addition of a map feature depicting the originating point of the search. The map feature covers both Local and Global search aspects. Although, Google is considered as a synonym for search with over 1billion users, Yahoo of late has been trying to cope up with the rapidly changing search environment. It planned to introduce new search based features like the decision to release Direct Search in India. The advent of varied metrics in search have brought up the rising importance of factors such as demographics, real time search, marke...
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How to Add Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo!, LinkedIn, Flickr, Hotmail Accounts to
2011-07-01 02:19:00 The launch of Google+ has brought updates and changes to many of other Google services as well. Google Profiles in one such service. Google Profiles already got a facelift a few weeks back, but that was all part of the bigger picture – the Google+ project. You can now add to connect your Facebook, Twitter, ...Original post from: How to Add Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo!, LinkedIn, Flickr, Hotmail Accounts to Google Profile See here for more posts: Sizzled Core - Android, Internet Media, Gadget Reviews - A technology blog based on Android, iPhone, brings you a wide coverage of Internet media news, gadgets reviews and tips/tricks that you won't find anywhere else! Learn how to tweak Firefox, Facebook tricks, unlock iPhone, iPad and root Android phones.
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Yahoo! Search Direct Feature To Be Released Soon In India
2011-06-20 10:05:00 Towards the end of this year, Yahoo! Inc will be launching its Search Direct feature in order to beat the stiff competition thrown by Google Inc. Google has been so long providing efficient and quick web search by offering relevant suggestions. This search feature was unveiled in the US market in March and Yahoo! Inc saw a growth in its user base by almost 1.7 percentage points as reported by ComScore. So keeping this increase statistics in concern, Yahoo now decided to do the same in India. Yahoo gets almost half of its revenue from search and the sprawling Banglaore office has almost 2000 employees who work behind the development of these search tools. “Through Search Direct we are trying to reduce the number of links through which the users have to navigate” exclaimed Amit Dayal, VP of Engineering, Searches and Marketplaces Group at Yahoo, India. Yahoo is on its way to generate faster results that happens character by character making search experience simpler. Classic se...
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Google, Yahoo, Facebook Mark World IPv6 Day
2011-06-08 13:01:00 Many experts predict that internet is fast running out of addresses. Every device connected to internet has a unique address called its IP (Internet Protocol) address. The current standard for IP addresses is IPv4. IPv4 has about 4.3 billion addresses. But, they will fall short of the growing need of web in few years’ time. To address this problem Internet Society in association with some of the major websites is marking 8th June as The World IPv6 Day. On this day more than 400 websites including Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Bing will enable IPv6 on their websites. We believe this is an important milestone, as IPv6 is the only long-term solution to IPv4 address exhaustion, and its deployment is crucial to the continued growth of the open Internet, Google said an official blog post. IPv6 will solve the problem of shortage of IP addresses. But, the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is not smooth. IPv4 and IPv6 networks are not compatible with each other. Also, internet service provid...
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Top 5 Destination To Travel In Summer Season, According To Yahoo
2011-06-03 06:06:00 Summer season is one of the best time of the year to plan a vacation and rejuvenate oneself. Web is coming handy and more useful to discover newer destination, unlike older days when the only places that were most visited were hill stations. Yahoo has carried out a research to reveal some of the favorite destination opted by users. According to the research, Asian countries were ranked as top five destination for APAC users. Following are some statistics from travel searches in APAC Singapore is the favorite destination for southeast Asian online users Taiwan rated as most desirable destination among online users in Singapore and Hong Kong While Japan is popular among Indian and Malaysian Moreover, the search result also indicated that Korea’s searches increased by 625% in Europe indicated towards local user’s interest. While, Taiwan showed interest in Thailand with 148.57. Interestingly, people are ready to shell out 10% of their salary while panning their travel ex...
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Yahoo! Overhauls Its Email Service; Shifts Attention To Social Media
2011-05-25 06:17:00 To match up with the pace of Gmail’s growth and Hotmail’s marketshare, Yahoo! has overhauled its email service. Gmail has been the most popular email service in India since October 2009 but, Yahoo! still commands a major share of the market with 284 million users worldwide. Microsoft’s Hotmail rules this domain with a mighty share of 364 million users worldwide. We had first reported of Yahoo! plan of launching a faster, easier and more social email service in October 2010, when it was still in beta. Now, Yahoo! will finally roll out its overhauled email service to its 284 million users. The two main aspects of Yahoo!’s overhauled email service would be a new design and scores of new features. The advantage of a well-designed layout is that it appears more interactive to users. As for the new features, speed, better protection from spam and increase in storage area will soon come up. Currently, Yahoo! mail is speedy but not speedy enough. According to Yahoo!, th...
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Yahoo! Finds New Home For Delicious With YouTube Founders
2011-04-29 10:42:00 About a month ago, we reported that Yahoo! has sold Delicious for $5 million. Although there was no confirmation of this news a statement from Yahoo! stated that they “are actively thinking about the future of Delicious and believe there is a home outside the company.” It seems now that Yahoo! has found the new home for Delicious with the founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. A post from Yahoo! on the Delicious blog stated, “Today, we’re pleased to announce that Delicious has been acquired by the founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. As creators of the largest online video platform, they have firsthand experience enabling millions of users to share their experiences with the world. They are committed to running and improving Delicious going forward.” Delicious will now be a part of Hurley and Chen’s company AVOS. Yahoo! has prepared a FAQ page to help the users of Delicious to know more about the transition. From the FAQ we get to k...
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$20 to $30 Million Paid By Yahoo To Acquire The Into Now App
2011-04-26 07:40:00 The media based check in app Into Now has been acquired by Yahoo. Techcrunch reports that Yahoo coughed up $20 to $30 million to acquire the app. Into Now is just like fourquare for TV shows and movies. It gives users the ability to identify TV content and share them with their friends through Twitter and Facebook. This technology is called SoundPrint. It is a very advanced and sophisticated, and that itself makes this purchase worth it. It changes the way users consume, share and engage with the content and the advertisers. The app had a million check ins just a month after the launch and has scored partnerships with PepsiCo and MTV in the past. Instead of manually searching the movie on IMBD for ratings and reviews, fire up the Into Now app. And let the app identify the movie, once the identification is done you can share it or discuss it with your friends on Twitter or Facebook. The acquisition is pretty impressive considering the fact that Into Now had launched just fou...
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Yahoo Trying Its Hands At Social With Group Updating Option
2011-03-31 09:58:00 Remember the Search Direct from Yahoo which we had reported about a week back? For those of you who missed it, here is a brief review. Search Direct is Yahoo’s version of Google Instant. But, according to Yahoo it is not as it offer “rich content” and “goes beyond a list of blue links.” Blake Irving, Chief Product Officer at Yahoo and Shashi Seth, senior vice president, Yahoo! Search and Marketplaces launched this product at a press conference. You can take the product for a test run at search.yahoo.com. Now, Prabhakar Raghavan, Chief Scientist and Senior Vice-President and Head of Yahoo! Labs has shared his views about Search Direct saying, “Users do not come to a search engine with just search strings. They expect some useful information. For one, if you type Spiderman, you may specifically be looking for reviews on the film, film tickets, pictures or news.” “You will get answers as categories as you begin to key in the search string. You c...
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Search Direct – Yahoo’s Version Of Google Instant With Rich Con
2011-03-24 06:25:00 Search Direct — that is what Yahoo has named its new product that functions like Google Instant and anticipates queries as you type them. Google had launched Google Instant in September 2010, and was welcomed with mixed reactions, but soon became popular amongst the masses. Yahoo, in an attempt to push new life into its search, is also adopting the real-time route. According to Yahoo, their product “goes beyond a list of blue links” and provides direct answers to search queries through rich content. Shashi Seth, senior vice president, Yahoo! Search and Marketplaces, said in a press release, “With today’s launch, direct answers – not the search results page – is the primary focus. We are redefining the search process and prominently displaying direct answers where search decisions are being made.” So, how does Search Direct work? After you click on the search box on search.yahoo.com, a drop-down shows ten trending searches. Once you start typing i...
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Yahoo Has Sold Delicious For $5 Million?
2011-03-14 06:08:00 Yahoo has sold Delicious for $5 million, according to a report by TheNextWeb. In December, last year, we had reported about an internal Yahoo document getting leaked, which informed that the company intended to “sunset” Delicious, YahooBuzz, Yahoo Bookmarks, Yahoo Picks, MyBlogLog, Alltheweb and Altavista. Yahoo did not decline the report and spokeswoman Dana Lengkeek stated, “We continuously evaluate and prioritise our portfolio of products and services, and do plan to shut down some products in the coming months such as Yahoo! Buzz, our Traffic APIs, and others. We will communicate specific plans when appropriate.” Now, the report from TNW states that they have received “a solid report from a reliable and proven source that Yahoo has sold social bookmarking site Delicious for $5m+.” According to the report a competitor of Delicious with a “strong user base” has bought the product. If the claims of the report are true then it would be a victory for ...
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Yahoo Closes Another One – MyBlogLog
2011-02-25 09:30:00 We knew this was coming, back in December when a leaked screenshot from Yahoo! listed sites like Delicious and MyBlogLog in the ’sunset’ column. It hasn’t been a particularly good week from them in terms of tech coverage either. A 37signals post on ‘What Happens After Yahoo Acquires You‘ received plenty of attention. Of course, Yahoo isn’t the only big company that is guilty of this, a post on GigaOM holds Google culpable too and goes on to analyze why some startups tend not to do too well after they are acquired. It didn’t help Yahoo that just days before this a Yahoo engineer’s complaint about Yahoo-owned Flickr not supporting modern web technologies was picked up by a lot tech blogs. They could have picked a better time to announce the ’sunsetting’ of one their acquisitions. Be that as it may, they didn’t. MyBlogLog users yesterday, received an email saying that Yahoo will discontinue the service from May 24, 201...
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Adios, Yahoo!
2011-02-10 21:34:00 I have now almost completely abandoned Yahoo! and all of its services. I’d stopped using their “search engine” a long, long, long time ago, and their Web-based email service is but a distant memory to me. I don’t use Yahoo Messenger either, except when I’m online on Nimbuzz, where I’d enrolled my Yahoo! account and ...
By: I.T. Talks!
Yahoo! Launches Official ICC World Cup 2011 Website
2011-01-27 07:50:00 Yesterday, Yahoo! India and ICC announced the official website for 2011 Cricket World Cup - iccevents.yahoo.com. The website promises to have live match updates, detailed match analysis, exclusive video content, games and contests. Vistors can also buy match tickets and ICC merchandise through the site. Prem Panicker, Managing Editor, Yahoo! India said, “Cricket is the most passionately followed game in India and many countries around the world. Cricket fans can now catch all the excitement of the game on the ICC World Cup 2011 official website. Yahoo! Cricket will deliver compelling and unique content alongside interactive contests to build on the euphoria for the game. Enthusiasts can share their thoughts, play games, create personalized profiles and track matches through interactive schedulers. Cricket fanatics can also watch and share exclusive video content and photographs on the site. We have ensured that Yahoo! Cricket provides a platform for millions of supporters to ...
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Google Leads The Search Market While Bing Grows And Yahoo Falls
2011-01-19 06:45:00 Although Facebook has dethroned Google as the top website of 2010, Google can proudly claim that it is the largest search engine that exists today. No wonder the term “search it” has been replaced by “google it”. A leader in measuring the digital world, comScore has revealed that Google led the explicit core search market in December with 66.6 percent of searches conducted. The report from comScore states: Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in December with 66.6 percent market share (up 0.4 percentage points), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 16.0 percent and Microsoft sites with 12.0 percent (up 0.2 percentage points). Ask Network accounted for 3.5 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL LLC Network with 1.9 percent. Google is obviously the biggest search engine present today, but we should also give credit to Microsoft for the growth their search engine, Bing, has attained recently. A report from Experian Hitwise states: Google a...
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Facebook Takes Down Yahoo, Eyeing Google And Microsoft?
2010-12-27 15:00:00 Facebook accounts for 1 out of 4 page views, states the article on Time which proclaimed Mark Zuckerberg as Time’s Person of the Year 2010. That is not an exaggerated figure or a phrase to attract people to Facebook. Facebook needs no such gimmick. The social network connects not just people but the web itself, with its “likes,” “shares” and “connects.” Now, with Facebook Personalisation out of the box, our Facebook experience is added to every page we visit. Such is the reach of Facebook, that it has more pageviews than the next 99 biggest websites combined. comScore has officially announced that Facebook is now the the third largest website in the world. It replaced Yahoo from this spot and is behind Microsoft and Google. Facebook got 648 million unique visitors during November, while Yahoo got 630 million visitors. Microsoft and Google got 869 million and 970 million, respectively. As the graph shows, back in October, Facebook and Yahoo ...
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Donors Choose, Yahoo partner to provide $350,000 in funding to needy school
2010-12-18 00:05:00 $350,000 goes a long way.For Lane Tech High School choir directors Paul and Mark Carrera, $600 hit the spot.Through Christmas, search-giant Yahoo will be giving away more than $300,000 to needy schools, through a partnership with online donation site DonorsChoose.org. Teachers can log onto Donors Choose and set up a page listing their school project in need of funding. Anybody can then log onto the site and make a donation.Yahoo started its own contest, called Homepages for Homerooms. They're asking teachers to encourage as many students as possible to set their homepage to Yahoo. Teachers who get the most homepage-switches get their projects on Donors Choose paid in full....
Delicious Sunset
2010-12-17 11:05:00 Eric Marcoullier leaked a picture on Twitter from what it appears to be an internal Yahoo slide showing plans to kill or merge a couple of Yahoo products and services. Eric Marcoullier founded MyBlogLog, which Yahoo bought in 2007. He left Yahoo a year later. MyBlogLog is in the sunset category which sounds like its ... |
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