Yahoo!, flamboyant with its recently not-quite-changed logo, has recently announced that the company has attained 20 percent more users since the taking over of Marissa Mayer as the CEO of the then-ailing company. In a recently held event, the vibrant CEO announced that Yahoo! has surpassed 800 million monthly active users on a global scale.
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Yahoo introduces new toolbar, available for all browsers
Yahoo has started bringing out new products with a strong technical team on-board, thanks to its latest acquisitions. The internet giant has launched a new version of the Yahoo toolbar for web browsers which Yahoo! announced recently. The earlier version of the toolbar was supported for all browsers except Google Chrome but the newer version
Continue readingPerion shakes hands with Yahoo! , will help each other in search and distribution
Yahoo! Search has taken a step ahead in strengthening its presence in the middle-east by entering into a multi-year search as well as distribution relationship with Perion Network Ltd. , a global consumer internet company based in Tel Aviv. The announcement was made by spokesman from Perion in a news conference recently. Perion has three
Continue readingYahoo fills its shopping bag with yet another buy-out, Social Browser maker Rockmelt
It has been exciting initially, it continued to surprise the entire tech fraternity with its acquisitions and now it has turned into a eye-widening topic as Yahoo Inc. continues to gulp down firms around the globe. Yahoo has confirmed the buy-out of Rockmelt, a company known for its social browser which was launched a few
Continue readingYahoo acquires ecommerce app platform provider Lexity
Yahoo is continuing with its shopping spree under the hands of its CEO Marissa Mayer and this time the tech giant has acquired an e-commerce app platform provider from California, Laxity. Although rumors had erupted earlier this week about the deal between the companies, none of them had officially announced the same. The new acquisition
Continue readingYahoo follows Bing way, implements pop-up notification for child abuse in its Search Engine
Yahoo has also followed the Bing way and the company has started throwing pop-out errors to British internet users searching for child pornography and abuse. The changes came after Britain Prime Minister, James Cameron, requested top notch internet companies to fight aggressively against child abuse and remove all illicit contents from search results. Google had
Continue readingYahoo’s new acquisition,Chinese Social Network-data start up ‘Ztelic’
Yahoo’s purchasing list continues to extend with the company acquiring a Beijing startup, , Ztelic, this time focused on social-network data. According to a report from Wall Street Journal, this is Yahoo’s 19th acquisition under the decree of the company’s new chief executive officer, Marissa Mayer. The company has been on a mass revamping lately
Continue readingRequests for inactive email IDs open up for Yahoo! Mail
If you had your favorite email ID registered in your now deactivated Yahoo! Mail and you want to reclaim it, you have your chance now since the leading mail service company has started taking requests from its users to reclaim their inactive email addresses so that they can re use it. Earlier, Yahoo had notified
Continue readingYahoo focuses on mobile internet users, upgrades Tumblr free storage to a Terabyte !
Yahoo has been playing hard with its latest acquisitions to soar back into search and social networking business and this time the company plans to introduce more search features in its Search tool as well as update its newly acquired micro blogging site, Tumblr. Yahoo has reported that it will retain the brand of the
Continue readingDesktop Search Activity gets fourth straight month of double-digit gain, up by 12%
With a positive note, desktop search activity seems to rebound with users thronging to search their keywords in desktop applications. According to the latest report from ComScore, desktop search stood at 12 percent year-over-year in the month of June with a ‘core’ search count of about 19.2 billion. This is the fourth straight month where
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