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Yahoo! wants to simplify and enhance your web experience

December 30, 2022 By Andy Merrett

yahoo.pngYahoo! has announced its intentions to simplify and enhance users’ Internet experiences, and has launched a global brand campaign to try to achieve that.

Launching next Monday (September 28) in the US and then in subsequent months across the UK, India, France, Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea, and Taiwan, Yahoo! wants to stick itself at the centre of people’s online lives. [Read more…]

Originally posted on September 22, 2009 @ 12:03 pm

Filed Under: Yahoo Tagged With: Yahoo

Yahoo! enhances webmail service, integrates third party service support

December 30, 2022 By Andy Merrett

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Yahoo! has announced some upgrades to its webmail system that it claims will make the service more useful.

Highlights include:

  • easier sharing of photo attachments, up to 25MB in total size, simply by dragging and dropping from the desktop
  • Emails from known contacts appear at the top of lists
  • Facebook/Twitteresque status updates plus photo and video sharing in the “What’s New?” section
  • A “gallery of innovative applications” that enhances inbox functionality by integrating third-party apps such as ZumoDrive and Flickr.

[Read more…]

Originally posted on September 21, 2009 @ 5:03 am

Filed Under: Web applications, Yahoo Tagged With: mail, webmail, Yahoo

DoubleClick Pumps Up Your AdSense Earnings and Screws Yahoo

December 30, 2022 By Mike Abundo

DoubleClickIf your AdSense earnings go up in the next few months, if you start seeing ads for big brands on your little sites, here’s why: Google has opened the DoubleClick Ad Exchange, and connected it to the Google content network. [Read more…]

Originally posted on September 18, 2009 @ 10:08 am

Filed Under: Advertising, Doubleclick, Google, Yahoo Tagged With: Advertising, Doubleclick, Google, Yahoo

The Treachery of Carol Bartz

December 30, 2022 By Mike Abundo

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz just gave the company’s entire search business to Microsoft for a song. Apparently, Bartz is fully aware that the ten-year agreement with Ballmer doesn’t bode well for Yahoo’s future. Just months before making Yahoo commit seppuku, Bartz made $2 million from selling Yahoo stock. [Read more…]

Originally posted on September 7, 2009 @ 7:22 am

Filed Under: Yahoo Tagged With: Carol Bartz, Yahoo

Gmail trounces AOL to take #3 web mail position

December 30, 2022 By Andy Merrett

google-mail-logoThe latest not-really-that-important web statistics show that Google’s GMail web mail service is now the third largest in the US.

What’s more surprising is that it had to overtake AOL to get there.

AOL? Why do so many people still use AOL?

The top two webmail providers are Hotmail, with 47m unique users, and Yahoo! Mail, with a whopping 106m. [Read more…]

Originally posted on August 17, 2009 @ 11:23 am

Filed Under: AOL, Email, Google, Microsoft, Web applications, Yahoo Tagged With: AOL, Email, gmail, hotmail, statistics, Yahoo

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