A little less than a month ago, Google announced that it had indexed 1 trillion unique URLs. In a slightly apples to oranges comparison, the 400 or so publishers connected to Yahoo Buzz seemed like a tiny group. Now, however, Yahoo Buzz is knocking down all its barriers."
Yahoo Inc. shelled out $36 million in the first half of 2008 to the outside advisers that helped the company navigate stormy buyout talks with Microsoft Corp. and the ensuing proxy threat from activist investor Carl Icahn.
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You know in the movies when they get the nerdy girl to untie her ponytail and remove her glasses? All of a sudden she's the hottest chick at school? Yeah, it's kinda like that. We always knew MyBlogLog was one hot little number, now she's got the look to prove it.
During a visit to Australia this week, Flickr founder and former Yahoo staffer Stewart Butterfield criticised the search giant for its lack of an innovative culture compared to rival Google.
Today, Yahoo! moves past a distracting proxy contest.
MySpace will announce support for the OpenID single sign-on framework sometime this week, we've heard from multiple sources.
Yahoo Inc. averted a showdown with rabble-rousing investor Carl Icahn on Monday by giving him three seats on its board of directors in a truce that still leaves the door open for a possible sale to Microsoft Corp.
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We just got confirmation from Joshua Schachter, the founder of delicious, that he has decided to resign from Yahoo!. Mike Arrington just spoke to him and he said that the recent news coming out of Yahoo! pressed his decision to leave now.
Flickr founders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield are leaving Yahoo. Butterfield -- who submitted an odd Onion-esque resignation letter -- will leave the company in July. Fake's last day was on Friday, according to a Yahoo spokesperson.
Yahoo drew up a plan to reject a Microsoft takeover bid months before its $45bn ($22.9bn) offer, according to newly released court documents revealing the lengths the company went to in its attempts to avoid being swallowed up by the technology giant.
Yahoo! has not initiated any private discussions.