Bing US market share in search keeps rising slowly
Data from ComScore shows that Microsoft's Bing search service gained another 0.1 percent market share in U.S. Internet search between April and May 2013, continuing its slow growth. More...
Data from ComScore shows that Microsoft's Bing search service gained another 0.1 percent market share in U.S. Internet search between April and May 2013, continuing its slow growth. More...
Yahoo has announced it has revamped its search results layout for web users, making them look more like the current Yahoo.com front page, along with some performance improvements. More...
Yahoo announced today at it's press event that it will be launching a new version of its Flickr online photo service, which will include a new UI and a whopping 1 TB of free photo and video storage. More...
Many Tumblr users are not happy that Yahoo have stepped in to buy the company, despite reports that it was finically unsound, and it looks like some users are voting with their feet. More...
It was just announced that Yahoo has bought Tumblr for approximately $1.1 billion dollars, close to what earlier rumors had predicted. Tumblr is one of the most popular blogging platforms in the world More...
A new report claims that Yahoo's board of directors has approved its acquisition of Tumblr for a whopping $1.1 billion, with Yahoo expected to officially reveal the deal tomorrow. More...
Yahoo have announced a 'product-focused' event will take place on Monday amid rumours of a possible acquisition of Tumblr. Will the rumours prove to be true or is this unrelated? More...
Yahoo supposedly wants the buy the super popular Tumblr to invigorate its user base and get a foothold in mobile marketing. However, they are scared of competing with Facebook for Tumblr's graces. More...
A report claims that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer would like to cut short the company's ten-year search engine deal with Microsoft, but may not be able to do that until 2015 at the earliest. More...
Yahoo has revealed it has extended its deal with Microsoft that guarantees Yahoo's revenue per search using Microsoft's Bing engine in the U.S. until March 31, 2014. More...
Yahoo has announced it will be shutting down the older versions of its Yahoo Mail website the week of June 3rd and will be closing a number of other services on April 30th. More...
Data from ComScore shows that Microsoft's Bing search service gained a 0.2 percent market share in U.S. search between February and March 2013, and has gained a total of 1.6 percent in the last year. More...
TechNet, a lobbying firm representing Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and more, have sent a letter to Congress in support of the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. More...
A report by the Wall Street Journal has outlined talks between Yahoo! and Apple about a deeper integration of Yahoo! services to combat iOS' reliance on Google. Apple may also be considering Bing. More...
Yahoo has announced that it has acquired Summly, a news aggregator app made by UK-based Nick D'Aloisio when he was just 15 years old. Terms of the deal were not announced. More...
Yahoo has quietly launched a new Yahoo Sports news app for Windows 8 and Windows RT, and it's apparently an exclusive, at least for now, for Lenovo Windows 8 PCs. More...
Yahoo may be in talks to to purchase a 75% stake in video site Dailymotion as part of an ownership structure that is currently being considered. The site could be valued at around $300 million. More...
New data from ComScore shows that Microsoft's share of the US Internet search market keeps growing, as does Google, but Yahoo's share of the search market keeps shrinking. More...
Yahoo has released a major new update of its Yahoo Mail app for Windows 8, adding in a number of new features such as folder management support, a way to search inside the app and more. More...
Despite Yahoo's efforts to fix 'vulnerabilities', mail users have continued to see their accounts hacked. The company says two isolated security holes have been rectified, but the problems persist. More...
Best Buy is following Yahoo's lead in requiring users to show up to the office, thus eliminating the telecommuting option. Is this a sound business practice or a desperate move by the business? More...
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is implementing a new policy in June that will bar employees from working at home. According to a report, many company employees are irate at the move. More...
Yahoo has begun to roll out a new redesign of its main page that offers more options for users to personalize the information they see on the page, such as a news feed with infinite scroll. More...
New data from ComScore shows that Microsoft's share of the US Internet search market continues to grow, even as Google's market share also experienced growth as well. More...
Marissa Mayer, chief executive of Yahoo, said at a technology conference Tuesday that she's not satisfied with how the Yahoo-Bing search partnership is working for her company. More...
The latest Internet search market share numbers from ComScore show that Microsoft's Bing made some inroads against Google in December 2012. More...
Lycos, one of the biggest names in Internet search engines in the late 1990s and early 2000s, is planning to launch a new search engine it developed in house in 2013. More...
Yahoo is giving away three free months of its Flickr Pro photo and video storage service from now until January 4th, which allows for "unlimited" uploads and downloads of content. More...
Yahoo has announced a revamp of its popular online email service, which includes a newly released Windows 8 app as well as a new iPhone/iPod Touch app and a revamped Android app. More...
A Mexican court has fined Yahoo $2.7 billion dollars over an apparent breach of a contract that seems to date back to 2003. The search giant obviously intends to challenge the decision made. More...
Yahoo Messenger will lose some important features starting on the 14th of December. These include chat room, calls to landlines, and interoperability with Microsoft's Live Messenger service. More...
Facebook has officially denied that it is in talks to enter into any kind of search partnership, following rumors over the weekend that the company was holding talks with Yahoo on that subject. More...
A new rumor claims that Yahoo may be cutting its current 10 year search deal with Microsoft's Bing service short and enter into a new search arrangement with Facebook. More...
Yahoo is testing out a new home page redesign that looks a lot like the "Metro" titles found on Windows 8, right now to the arrows that let uses move the tiles left and right. More...
Third-party results finally suggest that Google's mail service is leading the world, despite the search giant having claimed this to be the case during the summer. Somehow, Yahoo is still hanging on. More...
Yahoo has announced that it "will not recognize IE10's default DNT signal" on its websites, claiming that Microsoft's "Do Not Track" setup "degrades the experience for the majority of users." More...
Data from ComScore says that Microsoft's share of the Internet search market stayed flat in September 2012 compared to August, while Google's share rose slightly. More...
Microsoft is about to launch its most anticipated mobile releases in the company's history, Windows Phone 8, and while the launch is a few weeks away, it is generating some noise according to Yahoo. More...
New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer could reveal her new strategy for the Internet company on Tuesday, and that may include some changes in Yahoo's search engine arrangement with Microsoft. More...
Bing is stronger than ever, and it's finally starting to take a bite out of Google. New analysis shows that over the last year, Bing has consistently grown month by month, while Google is shrinking. More...
A new tech based lobbying group, the Internet Association, has been revealed with Google, Facebook and Yahoo among its members, but lacking Microsoft and Apple's involvement. More...
Nokia has offered to give the Yahoo employees who choose a free Lumia 920 for their work a free wireless charging plate for the upcoming Windows Phone 8 device. More...
According to a new report, the recently hired Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will give all of its full and part time employees a free smartphone, with the Lumia 920 among the ones on Yahoo's list. More...
Yahoo admits that a number of its Yahoo Mail and Messenger users cannot log into the service or are experiencing performance issues. No reason was given for the problems. More...
Microsoft is taking a bold stance with privacy and how it delivers advertisements with Outlook and the company's stance on how and when it will scan your email and attachments. More...
Marissa Mayer, a vice president at Google, has resigned from the search engine company to helm one of its rivals. She starts as President and CEO of Yahoo! on Tuesday. More...
Another day, another password breach. This time Yahoo! Voice was attacked and over 450,000 passwords have been stolen via an apparent SQL injection attack. More...
A new report claims that Facebook and Yahoo have now agreed to a settlement in their ongoing patent dispute, which will include a new joint advertising sales effort. More...
A Microsoft engineer named Terry Zink has discovered evidence of a botnet using malware infected Android devices to send out spammed emails to others via Yahoo Mail. More...
We chat with Jack Kim, the founder of Benelab, a charitable search engine, about how his start-up is making a difference worldwide, their problems with Google, relationship with Bing, and the future. More...