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Yahoo! Drives 100 million visits to newspaper consortium websites

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Yahoo! announced that the company has driven more than 100 million visits to its Newspaper Consortium member web sites through the distribution of local news headlines across the Yahoo! network. The milestone is a significant achievement for the Newspaper Consortium, an innovative partnership between Yahoo!, one of the most trafficked destinations on the web, and 779 local newspapers nationwide.

Under a content-distribution program, Newspaper Consortium member sites provide news headlines to Yahoo! for placement across a wide range of Yahoo! properties, including the top-ranked Yahoo! Homepage, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance and Yahoo! Sports, as well as across Yahoo! Mobile and on Yahoo! Messenger. The links take Yahoo! users directly to the full articles on the local news sites.

“It’s very exciting when our news makes it to Yahoo.com’s top features,” said Anthony Moor, Deputy Managing Editor, Interactive, The Dallas Morning News, and editor of dallasnews.com. “It’s like a firehose blasting us with up to 800,000 page views in just a couple of hours. We’ve had placements that have accounted for up to 27 percent of the day’s page views, and 65 percent of the day’s unique visitors.”

Originally posted on July 30, 2008 @ 10:39 am

Zimbra makes Yahoo! Mail, Gmail and AOL Mail available offline

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Messaging and collaboration software company Zimbra has released Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop Beta, giving everyone access to a simple, centralized place to manage work, school and personal e-mail even when they are not connected to the Internet. Through internet protocol support called Post Office Protocol (POP) and Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), Yahoo! Mail, AOL Mail and Gmail can now be accessed offline at the same time, from the same place. Additionally, Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop allows users to use the iCal standard to take their calendar offline.

Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop Beta Version 3 is available for free download. Anyone with access to Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS), Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, AOL Mail, or an IMAP/POP enabled server can use Zimbra Desktop.

Originally posted on July 24, 2008 @ 11:23 am

Icahn gets three Yahoo board seats

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Yahoo Inc. has relinquished three seats to billionaire Carl Icahn to avert a board battle come shareholder’s meeting this August 1. Icahn, however, still believes that he still believes a sale of all part of Yahoo is still the best for the company.

Yahoo’s board remains open to re-opening talks with Microsoft. This story is never-ending.

Originally posted on July 21, 2008 @ 9:38 am

Yahoo! opens up with Yahoo! BOSS

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Yahoo! Inc. is introducing Yahoo! Search BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service), a new open web services platform which gives third parties an unprecedented level of access to Yahoo! Search Technology, including the ability to re-rank and control the presentation of web search results. Yahoo! Search BOSS, available today as an API in beta, enables developers and companies to build world-class custom search experiences and disrupt the search industry.

BOSS provides developers and companies an unprecedented level of access to its algorithmic search infrastructure without incurring the significant costs required to build Web-scale search experiences. By using the BOSS platform, partners have the opportunity to provide industry leading search results. BOSS allows for control over the presentation and ranking of web search results as well as unlimited queries per day. Its framework allows developers to blend Yahoo! Search results from web, news and image indexes with any data source from across the web. Over time, other Yahoo! Search indexes will become available.

Over the next several months, a BOSS monetization capability, using Yahoo! search advertising and potentially other models, will be made available for partners and developers to create a search revenue stream for their business.

Originally posted on July 10, 2008 @ 9:39 am

Yahoo! seeking deal with AOL

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Yahoo! spent the long weekend in discussions with Goldman Sachs and potential bid partners, including Time Warner, Times Online reports.

Yahoo is said to be looking at a $10 billion merger deal with AOL, Time Warner’s Internet arm. The timing of any deal is important for Yahoo given the scheduled shareholders meeting on August 1, 2008.

Originally posted on July 7, 2008 @ 8:51 am