Yahoo revenue continues to plunge for third straight quarter
Yahoo announced another steep drop in net revenue today, citing the limping online advertising market for search and display ads as the cause for losses spanning three consecutive quarters. On a (dimly) positive note, the company did see second-quarter earnings per share that beat analysts’… Continue Reading
Yahoo will launch new homepage months early on Tuesday
The Wall Street Journal has obtained reliably-sourced insider information that Yahoo’s overhaul of its flagship site, a project code-named “Metro,” will go live tomorrow. The new site will encourage users to customize Yahoo with links to other sites, says the Journal:
The biggest change in the… Continue Reading
Yahoo shelving Maven Networks’ video platform
Updated with comments from Yahoo
Yahoo reportedly plans to shut down the video platform built by Maven Networks, the video startup Yahoo acquired for $160 million at the beginning of 2008, according to TechCrunch.
Maven offers video hosting and ad insertion to large media companies. Before the… Continue Reading
Taptu app searches for “iPhone-friendly content”
Search applications for mobile phones don’t need to emulate their computer-desktop counterparts. Yahoo oneSearch deliberately returns results different from the company’s website, based on Yahoo’s research that found customers searching from a phone tended to be looking for a narrow set of items — phone… Continue Reading
Roundup: Building43 launches for net enthusiasts, Twitter verifies accounts and more
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Nintendo fends off patent trolls — The game industry leader just won yet another patent suit, this one falsely claiming that the Wii can play DVD movies.
Rambus settles with EU — The memory chip designer has agreed to cut some of its royalty rates… Continue Reading
Roundup: Yahoo’s Bartz slams Bing, solar brightens chip market and more
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Intuit picks up PayCycle — The software company paid $170 million for the payroll services provider to strengthen that division of its business, reports Reuters.
Miles unveils electric Coda — Miles Electric Vehicles, known for its low-speed electric vehicles, has launched Coda Automotive, maker of… Continue Reading
Justice Dept. investigates possible hiring pact between Google, Apple, Yahoo, others
The Justice Department is reportedly investigating major tech companies for possibly violating antitrust laws with their hiring practices. The department sent “civil investigative demands” (written requests for documents and information) to at least a dozen tech companies, including Google, Apple, Yahoo, and biotech company Genentech…. Continue Reading
The battle for your address book: Will souped up contact apps monetize the data explosion?
[Editor's Note: Below, MobileBeat advisory board member Jason Devitt explains why we should care about new innovative address books. Not only are they key to a much better user experience, but they may greatly impact the way we pay to use our phones. He also... Continue Reading
Carol Bartz fires some zingers from the hot seat, still awaits boat loads of Microsoft money
Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz sat on the hot seat in an interview with Kara Swisher at the AllThingsD conference. Bartz managed to deflect and disarm tough questions with her sense of humor.
She said that she was open to talking to Microsoft about an acquisition… Continue Reading
Roundup: YouTube must pay songwriters, Queen Rania loves Twitter, and more
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YouTube ordered to pay $1.6M to US songwriters — The fees are only temporary as YouTube and the ASCAP songwriters association go to court to reach a more long-term settlement.
Queen Rania of Jordan believes Twitter can change the world — TechCrunch has a full… Continue Reading
Yahoo’s new mobile search bundles info, guesses intent
Yahoo search gurus gave a presentation at the offices of OutCast PR today titled, “End of the 10 Blue Links.” You can read TechCrunch’s liveblog of the event, but here’s the shorter takeaway.
Yahoo, like Google, is moving away from returning Web pages that match keywords…. Continue Reading
Roundup: Street View blinded, curtain to rise on new PS3 and more
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It’s a pirate’s life for Asia — A new study indicates that software piracy is growing rapidly in Asia where the number of computer owners continues to skyrocket.
Street View’s prying eyes — Google must reshoot footage for its maps Street View tool in Japan… Continue Reading
Roundup: Windows 7 nearing launch, Facebook phished, Dean’s upcoming Seattle speech
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Windows 7 readying for birth — Microsoft’s new operating system is entering its final stages of testing and the company has a “release candidate” ready, possibly for launch on May 5. It will be interesting to see if it lifts computer sales in… Continue Reading
Yahoo shutters GeoCities — my eyeballs are grateful
Yahoo has announced that it plans to shut down free web-hosting service GeoCities, which it acquired for $3.6 billion a decade ago.
My first response to the news was, “Wait, GeoCities is still around?” The service has fallen far from its heyday in the late ’90s…. Continue Reading
More loss, more layoffs for Yahoo under Bartz
Yahoo reported that revenue and profit fell during the first quarter — the first full quarter under new chief executive Carol Bartz. In response, the company plans to trim its workforce again, this time by 5 percent to cut down on expenses.
The search giant’s net… Continue Reading
Roundup: Apple patents surface, Second Life grows, Rosetta Stone IPO takes off
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New Apple patent filings raise eyebrows — The next versions of the iPhone could make use of a motion-aware user interface, based on some recent patent filings. MacRumors has more.
Nokia’s net income takes a dive — Phone maker’s net income falls 90 percent in… Continue Reading
Yahoo and Microsoft said they might talk about a partnership and now they are
This might be big, at some point in the future. New Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz and Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer have had some preliminary, face-to-face meetings over the last few weeks about a potential search and advertising partnership, according to BoomTown.
In case such… Continue Reading
Roundup: Apple gets busted, original Rickroller feels played and more
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Apple slapped with touchscreen suit — Taiwanese touchscreen maker Elan Microelectronics has filed suit against Apple for violating patents to produce its beloved multi-touch iPhone and iPod Touch.
TheFunded strikes again with Founders Institute — Adeo Ressi, the controversial founder of TheFunded, is offering four-month… Continue Reading
Roundup: Blind advocates want audio Kindle, Google CEO speaks to newspapers, and more
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Advocates for the blind protest loss of text-to-speech on Kindle — Amazon gave publishers the option to disable the feature after the Authors Guild complained it would cut into audio book sales. In response, a group advocating for the blind protested outside the… Continue Reading
Roundup: Twitter rumor frenzy, AT&T prepping for a new iPhone, Yahoo Music opening up and more
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Twitter is selling/no it’s not/but it should/no it shouldn’t — There are lots of rumors flying around out there about Twitter right now. While Google isn’t buying it anytime soon, the two sides are talking. And they should be — or maybe they… Continue Reading