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October 2007
- Yahoo Marketing Chief Resigns
  
  CNET | Oct 20, 07 1:24 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Yahoo's Chief Marketing Officer is moving on to greener pastures, as Cammie Dunaway will leave the company at the end of the month, News.com reports. Dunaway, named one of the top 100 marketers by Advertising Age, is the latest in a string of executive departures since founder Jerry Yang took over CEO duties following the ouster of Terry Semel. More »
- Yahoo's Earnings Top Expectations
  
  CNN | Oct 17, 07 6:01 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Yahoo reported better-than-expected sales and profits for the third quarter yesterday, pushing its stock up 10% in after-hours trading—despite having fallen 4% during regular market hours. The company pulled in a net income of $151 million, or 11 cents a share, slightly behind earnings for this time last year, but well ahead of the 8 cents a share predicted on the street. More »
- Yahoo's Newspaper Deal Still Buggy
  
  Reuters | Oct 12, 07 11:50 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Yahoo!'s deal to handle online ads for 19 newspaper publishers is approaching its first anniversary, and it's still unclear how helpful the partnership will be, reports Reuters. Much of the promised technology hasn't even been built yet, and individual papers may be limited in their options by the size of the consortium. More »
- Yahoo Worth More in Pieces, Analyst Says
  
  Reuters | Oct 5, 07 4:14 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - According to analyst Jeffrey Lindsay, Yahoo Inc. would be worth far more if it broke up its different services into individual businesses or at least went in for a radical overhaul. Shares that rose 2.4% yesterday to $27.80 could sell for as much as $39, according to Lindsay, if it happened. But Yahoo seems unlikely to seriously alter its game plan, Reuters reports. More »
September 2007
- Yahoo Joins Forces With UK Social-Networker Bebo
  
  Wall Street Journal | Sep 12, 07 2:38 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Internet giant Yahoo and networking site Bebo will collaborate on advertising in the UK and Ireland, the Wall Street Journal reports. Bebo—launched in 2005— hasn't taken off in the US, but it's the top social-networking website in Britain. Yahoo will sell the bulk of Bebo's banner and video ads, which analysts say will boost Yahoo's advertising revenue and target younger surfers. More »
August 2007
- In China, Yahoo Names Names
  
  San Francisco Chronicle | Aug 28, 07 1:05 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Yahoo asked a US federal court yesterday to dismiss a human rights lawsuit accusing the company of abetting the Chinese government. Two imprisoned Chinese journalists accuse the Web giant of passing along information about users that led to the arrest, imprisonment, and sometimes torture of writers and dissidents, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. More »
- Yahoo Adds Phone Text Messaging to Email
  
  USA Today | Aug 27, 07 5:01 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Sending phone text messages soon won’t require a phone, thanks to an upgrade in Yahoo’s already leading email service, which will provide the new feature for free. The new system will integrate email, text messages and instant messaging, reports USA Today . Customers "don't want to bounce around to many different areas," said a Yahoo spokesman. More »
- Post-Yahoo Photo Solutions
  
  Wall Street Journal | Aug 2, 07 7:51 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Yahoo is shuttering its popular photo sharing site in September, but never fear—there are plenty of alternative places to dock your digital pics. The Journal surveys the field: Kodak Gallery is the easiest to navigate, but lacks editing tools and requires a yearly purchase commitment. Shutterfly is totally, no-strings-attached free, but it's simple to a fault. Users can't upload videos or submit images from a mobile device. More »
June 2007
- Yahoo! CEO Logs Off
  
  San Jose Mercury News | Jun 18, 07 4:48 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Yahoo CEO Terry Semel is out. In a surprise announcement, Yahoo said today that co-founder Jerry Yang will take over from Semel as CEO, who will step down immediately. The embattled Semel, who's been the target of recent shareholder ire, will stick around as non-executive chairman; Susan Decker, former head of advertising, is set to become Yahoo's new prez. More »
- Investors Clash With Yahoo CEO
  
  San Francisco Chronicle | Jun 13, 07 10:34 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Investors railed yesterday against Yahoo Inc.'s management team in an unusually rowdy session of the search engine's annual shareholders' meeting. Angry investors interrogated CEO Terry Semel over his $107.5M paycheck and the company's slumping stock price, which fell 9% in the last year. A third of shareholders mutinied in protest, voting against the company's otherwise uncontroversial proposed slate of directors. More »
May 2007
- Microsoft Opens Window To Yahoo! Deal
  
  New York Post | May 4, 07 11:17 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Could a Microsoft-Yahoo! merger be in the works? The New York Post reports that Microsoft has quietly approached the Internet giant about opening merger negotiations, after informal talks fell apart several months ago. Insiders say Microsoft is looking to fight back against Google after the search-engine leader bested it in a spate of recent deals. More »
April 2007
- Yahoo's Earnings Drop Despite New Ad System
  
  Wall Street Journal | Apr 18, 07 8:33 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Yahoo's new online advertising system failed to break the company's earnings slump, with the search-engine pioneer reporting an 11% drop in first-quarter profits. Yahoo faces increased competition for graphic display advertising that represents a third of revenue, and the company is no longer doing ad brokering for Microsoft, which bolstered revenues last year. More »
March 2007
- Big Guns Battle Video Sharing With Free TV Shows
  
  Washington Post | Mar 23, 07 9:14 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - TV biggies NBC Universal and News Corp. are teaming up to hit YouTube with the full force of their their combined TV content, offered online for free. Starting this summer, AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft's MSN and News Corp. subsidiary MySpace will hope to win over internet users (and the advertising that goes with them) with shows like 24 and Heroes . More »
April 1996
- Yahoo! Offering Is Set for Today
  
  New York Times | Apr 12, 96
  
  Investors' infatuation with Internet stocks will be tested again today when Yahoo! Inc. makes its initial public offering at $13 a share. The Yahoo! service was started in April 1994 by two electrical engineering students at Stanford University, David Filo and Jerry Yang. The pair formed the company in March 1995, and it had lost more than $600,000 by the end of last year. It derives most of its revenues from advertising on its World Wide Web pages.
March 1995
- Super cyber surfers
  
  Newsweek | Mar 20, 95
  
  The brainchild of two Stanford University electrical-engineering Ph.D. students--David Filo and Jerry Yang--Yahoo began about a year ago as their personal list of favorite Web sites. "For me the Internet was really unfriendly. It was laborious," says Yang, who dislikes the text-based interface that governs most of the Internet. The Web ushered in graphics and intuitive, point-and-click navigation that opened the Internet's doors to many who had fearfully stayed away.