Posts Tagged with ‘Yahoo!-News’

Today in Yahoo’s headquarters the management of the company has presented to journalists their plan to revamp some of Yahoo properties with a focus on adding third-party content. The idea is that such content will make Yahoo more of a destination to users and will improve the situation where visitors use Yahoo as a springboard to jump to other sites in virtually no time.
The sites to experience the redesign include Yahoo homepage, Search page, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Music, and Yahoo [...]

Honestly, I was very intrigued when I saw the headline in Yahoo News - InfoWorld adds Twitter to its mobile options. It sounded like a big story to me - mainstream media adopting social media tools again, something we can’t stop to admire and so we continue to give them credits whenever they step out of their usual patterns and get to play with out favorite toys.
So I hoped to see a big story there but was there one? Unfortunately [...]

Everyone is all excited about the new Yahoo offering called Yahoo Buzz. ReadWriteWeb has talked about how they love it not once, but twice. TechCrunch seems pretty happy as well, and Duncan Riley spent most of the weekend Tweeting about the number of comments he was receiving on his article that made the site.
ReadWriteWeb had statistics from Yahoo on the wonders they've done in feeding pageviews to the featured sites, with success stories listed as Salon.com, The Smoking Gun, [...]

There is so little positive news from China these days and this is particularly true with regard to Web news. Censorship, hacking, prostitution issues and a host of other maladies seem to be plaguing China and its Internet. Just today it was reported that a man dropped dead in a Chinese cyber café after playing some online game for three days straight. According to the news a 30 year old man evidently died of exhaustion, but the particular game was not [...]

What is the problem? YouTube and Google just allow people to share content right? Well, someone else does not like their content being shared as more news arrives of yet another lawsuit against the dynamic duo of Google and YouTube. Plaintiffs including the English Premier Soccer League are suing over copyright infringement allegations.
News from Reuters/Yahoo just revealed the filings in the U.S. District Court in New York by the Football Association Premier League Ltd. and music publisher Bourne Co. According [...]

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is calling the hands of Internet number pushers in regard to the validity and measurement of user behavior. I can't tell you how gratifying it is to see a watchdog set on one of my pet peeves. So many numbers abound across Web 2.0, but most significantly to me these numbers seem rather nebulous at times. Even more significantly, they are utilized in making decisions that not only cost billions of dollars but affect many [...]

A human rights group is suing Yahoo Inc. on the grounds that the company assisted China's communist government with torture and dropping dime on dissidents. The World Organization for Human Rights USA seeks unspecific damages and Yahoo's participation in securing the release of the dissidents. Just after I complimented them on being more internationally educated and more refined than Google too, it never fails.  
Yahoo! acknowledges turning over data to the Chinese government under penalty of law there according to an AP [...]

Reports out of Beijing blame the Internet for youth crime in China. Police spokesmen cited the negative influences of online pornography and violent content as a causal element in youth crime there. According to Wu Heping a spokesman for police in Beijing, recent cases involving youths show a disproportionate number to have been corrupted by online filth.
China has begun a crackdown on Internet porn recently and according to their figures almost 80 percent of young criminals have been seduced [...]

MySpace is apparently branching out to challenge Digg and Netscape in the News Arena. MySpace News will bring the news to its huge audience with essentially the same user recommendation capabilities as Digg and Netscape, but unlike these sites will scan thousands of web journals and news sites. The new service appears to be aimed at solving all the problems not solved by either Digg or Google and Yahoo! in the news realm.
MySpace, like Google, will allow publishers to [...]