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Yahoo strikes deal to exclusively offer Saturday Night Live content

, Apr 24th 2013 Discuss [0]

Do you enjoy Saturday Night Live? If so, you're in good company, with Yahoo's CEO Marissa Mayer revealing in a blog post earlier today that she is also a fan. That's not all she revealed, however, expressing her fondness for the show amidst a bigger announcement: Yahoo has struck a deal with Broadway Video to exclusively offer Saturday Night Live content later this year. Read The Full Story

Softbank Capital and Yahoo Japan aim at bringing U.S. startups to Japan

, Apr 24th 2013 Discuss [0]

In a move that will hopefully attract U.S. startups to the Land of the Rising Sun, Softbank Capital and Yahoo Japan have created a $20 million fund geared towards helping U.S startups, with a focus in mobile applications, e-commerce, and web advertising, get started in the Japanese market. The fund is designed to help out early-stage startups who still need to get their foot onto the ground. Alongside the new fund, Yahoo Japan has also assigned a new head of U.S operations, Toshiaki Chiku, who will be working out of Softbank's New York City location. Read The Full Story

Google tipped to attain Wavii natural language startup

, Apr 23rd 2013 Discuss [0]

Google has been said to have acquired Wavii, a natural language processing startup. Wavii is a service that is said to operate the same way as Summly, the news app that was recently swiped up by Yahoo. Both services search for news stories from all around the web, and then create short summaries of the main points of these stories. While Summly gathers separate news articles, Wavii collects entire stories, and provides links to several different sources reporting on the story. Read The Full Story

Yahoo iOS app adds Summly content curation

, Apr 22nd 2013 Discuss [0]

Yahoo has updated its iPhone app today, which most notably integrates a new Yahoo feature known as Summaries, which comes from the fruits of the labor of a 17-year-old app developer who released news summary app called Summly back in November last year. Yahoo bought the app for $30 million, and have integrated the app's features in their updated app. Read The Full Story

Yahoo appoints former AOL exec as new Global Public Privacy head

, Apr 20th 2013 Discuss [0]

Yahoo has just appointed Tekedra N. Mawakana as its Deputy General Counsel and Vice President of Global Public Policy. Mawakana used to be the Senior Vice President of Pubic Policy and Deputy General Counsel at AOL, where she worked for around 12 years. At her new position, she will be working together with industry and government agencies to work on global governmental affairs and help develop policy initiatives. Read The Full Story

Yahoo makes major cuts in services as Mobile ramps up

, Apr 19th 2013 Discuss [0]

This afternoon the folks at Yahoo have announced their intent to end services with Yahoo Deals, Yahoo SMS Alerts, Yahoo Kids, and the feature phone versions of Yahoo Mail and Messenger. While the smartphone versions of both Yahoo Messenger and Yahoo Mail will (of course) continue to roll forward, both the feature phone versions and legacy smartphone versions of these apps "will be going away", as Yahoo reports. This is all part of Yahoo's move into the mobile universe they've been vocal about this week more than once. Read The Full Story

Yahoo interview tips future with full mobile engagement

, Apr 19th 2013 Discuss [0]

This morning Yahoo heads Marco Wirasinghe and Lee Parry spoke in an interview about the future of the company - specifically on how they'll be making a major push for mobile device engagement starting immediately. Wirasinghe works with Yahoo as their mobile and emerging products director while Parry is senior director. Both made it clear today: Yahoo is headed to a place full of high-level engagement for mobile users, apps first. Read The Full Story

Jony Ive, Marissa Mayer, Sheryl Sandberg among Time’s 100 most influential people

, Apr 18th 2013 Discuss [0]

Time Magazine released its list of the 100 most influential people in the world today, and many technology visionaries made the list, including several executives. Apple's Jonathan Ive, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, and Samsung CEO Oh-Hyun Kwon all made it on the list. Read The Full Story

Yahoo launches new Weather and Mail mobile apps

, Apr 18th 2013 Discuss [0]

In an effort to build more presence in the mobile market, and continue with its redesign initiative, Yahoo has launched a couple of new apps. The company released Yahoo Weather for iPhone, and Yahoo Mail for the iPad and Android tablets. This marks the first time that Yahoo has released their own weather app, as well as their Mail app for tablets. Read The Full Story

Yahoo publishes first-quarter 2013 financial data

, Apr 17th 2013 Discuss [0]

Yahoo has reported the results of 2013's first quarter, which came to an end on March 31. The numbers show a revenue of about $1.07 billion, a rate that Yahoo calls flat in comparison to the same quarter in 2012. Still, the company that has been struggling to regain its foothold has beat out expectations despite an 10-percent drop, pulling in $425 million in GAAP revenue. Read The Full Story

Yahoo seeks AOL’s Ned Brody despite possible legal action says sources

, Apr 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

AOL's recently-resigned sales executive Ned Brody has reportedly received an offer from Yahoo, which is trying to reel him in despite possible legal action from his former employer. This information comes from sources who are said to be "close to the situation," who say it is tricky because Brody is currently under a non-compete order for 12 months. Read The Full Story

Apple and Yahoo in talks to bring deeper integration to iOS

, Apr 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

Yahoo already powers the Weather and Stocks app in iOS, but it seems they don't want to stop there. It's reported that the Sunnyvale-based company is currently in discussions with Apple to bring more Yahoo services to iOS, including more ways to bring sports information to users, as well as integration with Yahoo News. Read The Full Story
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