Yahoo Strikes Content Partnership With Twitter

Yahoo hopes to enter the world of social networking by adding a new 'sharing' option to its e-mail service.In an attempt to avoid the criticism levelled at Facebook over recent changes to user privacy, Yahoo sent a message to all...

Shortly after Google launched its Gmail social networking tool Buzz, Yahoo Inc and Microsoft Corp., have lashed out the search engine giant, mocking the newly launched social networking tool. Microsoft Corp, the world’s...

Yahoo has unveiled a new web-based application called Search pad, which it hopes will allow users to collate information pertaining to a particular topic. The application will apparently allow Yahoo users to "capture, organise,...

In a bid to snare some breathing space in the web search domain and bolstering up the significance of real-time search, Microsoft has started adding Twitter updates to its Bing search results.  In a blog posting, Microsoft...

In a move that further serves as a testimony for Twitter's soaring popularity, Yahoo-owned image-sharing website Flickr has announced that its users will now be able to share their images uploaded to its website on...

INQ, the Hutchinson Whampoa subsidiary which designs cool mobile phones, is set to release a Twitter Phone by the end of the year as a follow up to the INQ1, the so-called Facebook Phone. According to Reuters who interviewed Frak...

Steve Ballmer has finally taken the wraps off Bing, Microsoft's latest (last?) attempt to topple Google and Yahoo off their search engine pedestals, at the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital Conference. The search engine at...

The ongoing talks between Yahoo and Microsoft over their reported advertising pact seems to be reaching a feverish pitch with reports indicating that a deal may be in the offing in next few weeks.  According to industry...

Yahoo Inc. on Thursday announced that it will be closing GeoCities, a free web hosting service that the internet company snapped up for a massive $4 billion around 10 years ago, when the dotcom boom was at its peak.  A post...

Internet behemoth Yahoo has announced to lay off another over 600 employees after the internet company posted 78 percent drop in its first-quarter profits.  Carol Bartz, new chief exec for Yahoo, asserted that the...

It seems that Yahoo and Microsoft are reportedly trying to arrive at a possible advertising agreement which will help the two major search players to counter the increasing dominance of Google in the online advertisement market....

Google's rumours of an imminent acquisition of micro-blogging website Twitter has sparked a flood of responses not only in the blogosphere but also in the mailboxes of Twitter's top execs. Biz Stone, one of the co-fouders of...

Rumours that Google might be purchasing Twitter soonish sent virtual stocks of the micro-blogging website significantly up, with some commentators saying that it might well be the best thing to happen to Google and Twitter. The...

Twitter is on the verge of introducing some significant changes to the search functionality on its homepage to encourage its users to search more and hopefully, bring in some advertising revenues in the future. Some users may...

Yahoo has launched its Yahoo! mobile homepage in eight countries and across more than 300 mobile internet devices, phones and smartphones. The personalised mobile portal page which was first unveiled to the public back in...