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Yahoo spat with Alibaba over Alipay hive-off worsens
Yahoo's squabble with its Chinese partner Alibaba over the latter's transfer of a major internet asset to its chief executive has deepened. Shares in Yahoo fell for the third day running after news that Alibaba had spun its online payment business Alipay...
Offline hits back in online chart
Established brands such as John Lewis and Argos now account for half the places in the UK's top 50 web brands, according to new statistics. It includes media brands such as the BBC, Sky and the Telegraph. But the top five remains dominated by web...
Barack Obama 'friends' Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg
US President Barack Obama has met Silicon Valley bosses, including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Apple's Steve Jobs and Google chief executive Eric Schmidt were also present at the private get-together in California. The president had been seeking...
Gawker hack triggers password resets at major sites
Millions of web users are being asked to reset their passwords as concerns spread over a major hacking attack. Yahoo, Twitter and LinkedIn have asked users to change their details, days after gossip site Gawker was hacked. Online game World of Warcraft...
YouTube won the battle against Viacom
By Stela Roman On Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Louis Stanton in New York threw out Viacom's hotly contested $1 billion copyright infringement suit against Google's YouTube. The federal judge said that the popular video...
Yahoo and Facebook announce site tie-up
Yahoo and Facebook are to tie their services closer together. The tie-up means people with a presence on both sites can have updates to one service mirrored to the other. It also means that it will get easier for users of Yahoo's other services, such...
Yahoo! Inc. Lawsuit Settlement: Long Overdue, and Not the End of the Issue
On November 6, Congressman Tom Lantos, chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, chaired a hearing at which Yahoo! Inc. CEO Jerry Yang and General Counsel Michael Callahan were asked to account for the company’s actions in the Shi...
Tom Lantos: Yahoo provided false information to Congress
Statement of Tom Lantos, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, at hearing, Yahoo! Inc.’s Provision of False Information to Congress. Verbatim, as delivered. Washington, DC (Nov. 6, 2007) -- When the news broke in August that this...
Yahoo may topple Google to become the king of the Web
Google has been knocking the cover off the ball for the last three years – showing increasing revenues, profit margins and market share gains, quarter over quarter. The company can't be stopped ... or can it? The company that really started...
Yahoo Inc's rising operating expenses overshadow increase in revenue
Third-quarter earnings of online search engine operator Yahoo Inc. declined slightly as rising operating expenses overshadowed an increase in revenue. For the quarter ended Sept. 30, Yahoo earned $151.3 million (106.93 million EUR), or 11 cents...
