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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
New Yahoo widget for Samsung HDTVs
For those who own the latest Samsung connected HDTVs in Singapore, the company has just released another Yahoo widget for its Internet@TV service. This will supplement the existing YouTube widget which plays back Internet video downloaded from the video-sharing portal. Powered by AccuWeather.com Web site, the new widget is programmed to display up to six days of live weather forecast for selected countries. This free addon will be automatically installed the next time you activate Internet@TV.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Yahoo Makes Local Search Results More Useful
Location-based search results are more useful if it provides more information about a specific location. And that’s what Yahoo Local Search is trying to fulfill by introducing additional links to the Yahoo Shortcut that appear at the top of the Yahoo Local Search results.So now when you do a local search for a business, the Yahoo Local Search Results page will include links to other information such as photos, reviews, directions and and general overview about a particular business.
But the best part is the fact that clicking on these additional categories will pull out the relevant information and display it right on the search results page. That saves you a lot of time when trying to learn about a particular place and moreso if you are stuck in a place and you don’t know where to go. Using you mobile phone to do a search on Yahool Local with these enhancements can save a lot of time and trouble as well.
The enhancement to Yahoo Shortcut on Local Search is part of Yahoo’s effort to get a grip of user’s intent to match it with the right Yahoo content.
But the best part is the fact that clicking on these additional categories will pull out the relevant information and display it right on the search results page. That saves you a lot of time when trying to learn about a particular place and moreso if you are stuck in a place and you don’t know where to go. Using you mobile phone to do a search on Yahool Local with these enhancements can save a lot of time and trouble as well.
The enhancement to Yahoo Shortcut on Local Search is part of Yahoo’s effort to get a grip of user’s intent to match it with the right Yahoo content.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Why Yahoo Should Sell Itself to Microsoft.(or Google)
Yahoo is caught in an enviable position, between a rock and a hard place, of Microsoft and Google.
About a decade ago, Yahoo was the wunderkind. No one had anything like its search engine. One problem was that it was a little ahead of its time. Few people fully understood the value of search engines. Another issue was that it was just another tech stock; one that went boom in 1999, then bust in 2000. (Google was fortunate to come of the scene afterward, and avoid this.)
By the time Google made its mark in the early 2000s, Yahoo was "old news." It had not made anything of its head start, and was outpositioned by a younger, more nimble company. So much for first mover advantage.
The latest news is that Microsoft, the industry giant, has now come up with a credible alternative. It is the last entry in this space. but the one with the strongest backing. That's because Microsoft is a much more established company that isn't only about search engines. It's basically about software control, of which search engine is just one application.
Yahoo is in an unenviable position, trapped between a larger producer of its main product, and a smaller producer that's a much larger company overall. These two companies are about to go to war. As Machiavelli advised about 600 years, ago a (prince) in such a situation "must declare for one or the other, or else become a prey of the victor."
About a decade ago, Yahoo was the wunderkind. No one had anything like its search engine. One problem was that it was a little ahead of its time. Few people fully understood the value of search engines. Another issue was that it was just another tech stock; one that went boom in 1999, then bust in 2000. (Google was fortunate to come of the scene afterward, and avoid this.)
By the time Google made its mark in the early 2000s, Yahoo was "old news." It had not made anything of its head start, and was outpositioned by a younger, more nimble company. So much for first mover advantage.
The latest news is that Microsoft, the industry giant, has now come up with a credible alternative. It is the last entry in this space. but the one with the strongest backing. That's because Microsoft is a much more established company that isn't only about search engines. It's basically about software control, of which search engine is just one application.
Yahoo is in an unenviable position, trapped between a larger producer of its main product, and a smaller producer that's a much larger company overall. These two companies are about to go to war. As Machiavelli advised about 600 years, ago a (prince) in such a situation "must declare for one or the other, or else become a prey of the victor."
Friday, April 24, 2009
Yahoo to close GeoCities this year
Yahoo Inc. said Thursday that it would shut down its GeoCities free Web-hosting service after paying about $3 billion for the unit in 1999.
GeoCities isn't accepting new accounts and will close later this year, Yahoo said. GeoCities, Yahoo's second-biggest acquisition behind Broadcast.com Inc., lets users design personal websites to show off photos, promote local clubs or publicize business services.
Chief Executive Carol Bartz is trimming costs as Yahoo copes with a slowing online-advertising market. The company said this week it will cut about 700 jobs, or 5% of the total, after eliminating about 1,600 in the fourth quarter.
Yahoo pointed GeoCities users to its paid Web-hosting service. The company will give users more details on saving GeoCities' data later this year.
U.S. visitors to GeoCities dropped 25% to 12 million in March from the year-ago period, according to research firm ComScore Inc. in Reston, Va.
Other services Yahoo has closed include travel-search site FareChase and online storage service Briefcase.
GeoCities isn't accepting new accounts and will close later this year, Yahoo said. GeoCities, Yahoo's second-biggest acquisition behind Broadcast.com Inc., lets users design personal websites to show off photos, promote local clubs or publicize business services.
Chief Executive Carol Bartz is trimming costs as Yahoo copes with a slowing online-advertising market. The company said this week it will cut about 700 jobs, or 5% of the total, after eliminating about 1,600 in the fourth quarter.
Yahoo pointed GeoCities users to its paid Web-hosting service. The company will give users more details on saving GeoCities' data later this year.
U.S. visitors to GeoCities dropped 25% to 12 million in March from the year-ago period, according to research firm ComScore Inc. in Reston, Va.
Other services Yahoo has closed include travel-search site FareChase and online storage service Briefcase.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Yahoo Offers iPhone Messenger App
Yahoo recently made a stand-alone version of its Messenger instant messaging application available for the iPhone. How does it compare?
I admit that I rarely use IM from my phone, but it has come in handy on occasion. Since AOL's AIM app became available for the iPhone last summer, I've used it from time to time, and it generally works well for short conversations.
Yahoo has finally gotten around to offering a version of its own messaging client for the iPhone. Yahoo IM is built into the new Yahoo Mobile application that was recently made available for the iPhone. If you're not interested in installing the larger program, Yahoo Messenger for the iPhone can cover the basics of IM.
The app is a free download from the iPhone Apps Store. It downloaded and installed in a snap via 3G. Signing in and connecting, however, were a bit problematic.
I launched the app, entered my username and password, and watched it chug along "connecting" for more than five minutes. Eventually it logged in. After that first time, it logged in faster on subsequent attempts.
The user interface is as easy to figure out as any other on the iPhone. There are three tabs along the bottom that give you access to your contacts, messages and settings. Tapping any of your contacts brings up a screen in which to compose IMs. There is a rich set of emoticons that can be inserted into each message, and you can also insert URLs and images.
Composing and sending messages is a snap. What's sort of interesting is that in the main message screen, the blank spot to compose a message has a note that says "What are you doing?" If that sounds familiar, think Twitter. You can also start typing new messages from this screen, and inserting a recipient is as simple as pressing the screen.
The settings let you control your availability (available, unavailable, invisible), as well as customize how you view your contacts.
In all, it's a good IM client for the iPhone, and is well deserving of the four stars it is currently rated at in the iPhone Apps Store.
If you're more fully entwined in Yahoo's services, you'd probably be better off just using the Yahoo Mobile application, which includes tons of other services and features.
I admit that I rarely use IM from my phone, but it has come in handy on occasion. Since AOL's AIM app became available for the iPhone last summer, I've used it from time to time, and it generally works well for short conversations.
Yahoo has finally gotten around to offering a version of its own messaging client for the iPhone. Yahoo IM is built into the new Yahoo Mobile application that was recently made available for the iPhone. If you're not interested in installing the larger program, Yahoo Messenger for the iPhone can cover the basics of IM.
The app is a free download from the iPhone Apps Store. It downloaded and installed in a snap via 3G. Signing in and connecting, however, were a bit problematic.
I launched the app, entered my username and password, and watched it chug along "connecting" for more than five minutes. Eventually it logged in. After that first time, it logged in faster on subsequent attempts.
The user interface is as easy to figure out as any other on the iPhone. There are three tabs along the bottom that give you access to your contacts, messages and settings. Tapping any of your contacts brings up a screen in which to compose IMs. There is a rich set of emoticons that can be inserted into each message, and you can also insert URLs and images.
Composing and sending messages is a snap. What's sort of interesting is that in the main message screen, the blank spot to compose a message has a note that says "What are you doing?" If that sounds familiar, think Twitter. You can also start typing new messages from this screen, and inserting a recipient is as simple as pressing the screen.
The settings let you control your availability (available, unavailable, invisible), as well as customize how you view your contacts.
In all, it's a good IM client for the iPhone, and is well deserving of the four stars it is currently rated at in the iPhone Apps Store.
If you're more fully entwined in Yahoo's services, you'd probably be better off just using the Yahoo Mobile application, which includes tons of other services and features.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Three ways Yahoo could become great again
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has had two months to settle into her purple-and-gold throne in Sunnyvale. She's sent some rah-rah notes to buck up the spirits of the Yahoos. And she's made some quick moves to restructure her leadership team.
Now, all she needs is a strategy to save Yahoo.
Fortunately, I have just what she needs: some friendly, unsolicited advice from your local business columnist.
Despite all you've read about Yahoo this past year, the company has some tremendous strengths and opportunities.
I was already a fan of the strategy that much-maligned founder and former Chief Executive Jerry Yang was pursuing. He wanted to turn Yahoo into an open, more social platform that would allow anyone to write applications to add new functions and services. This is a long-term strategy, but one that reflects the way the Web is evolving. Bartz should build on it.
Here are three steps for doing that:
1. Recognize what Yahoo is and is not. I have never really considered Yahoo to be a search company. But somehow, it let itself be defined as one, and so looked increasingly sluggish compared to Google.
2. Sell Yahoo search to Microsoft. CEO Steve Ballmer again threw the door wide open last week. During an interview with a BusinessWeek editor, he said he'd chatted with Bartz by phone about search and "sees a real opportunity for a deal."
3. Buy Twitter and FriendFeed. At first glance, such a suggestion might just cause users of both services to go, well, berserk. But hear me out.
Now, all she needs is a strategy to save Yahoo.
Fortunately, I have just what she needs: some friendly, unsolicited advice from your local business columnist.
Despite all you've read about Yahoo this past year, the company has some tremendous strengths and opportunities.
I was already a fan of the strategy that much-maligned founder and former Chief Executive Jerry Yang was pursuing. He wanted to turn Yahoo into an open, more social platform that would allow anyone to write applications to add new functions and services. This is a long-term strategy, but one that reflects the way the Web is evolving. Bartz should build on it.
Here are three steps for doing that:
1. Recognize what Yahoo is and is not. I have never really considered Yahoo to be a search company. But somehow, it let itself be defined as one, and so looked increasingly sluggish compared to Google.
2. Sell Yahoo search to Microsoft. CEO Steve Ballmer again threw the door wide open last week. During an interview with a BusinessWeek editor, he said he'd chatted with Bartz by phone about search and "sees a real opportunity for a deal."
3. Buy Twitter and FriendFeed. At first glance, such a suggestion might just cause users of both services to go, well, berserk. But hear me out.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Yahoo wins approval of the Agreement on Microsoft More Specials
Yahoo Inc. has received approval of a judge of a regulation imposing changes to the company starting that investors support the plan, it will be easier for Microsoft Corp. and other potential suitors to buy the owner of the second People of the United States, Internet search engine.
Judge of the Court of Chancery of Delaware William B. Chandler III said today he approved the agreement, which resolves on Yahoo investors trial leaders decided last year to reject Microsoft bid. Shareholders continued after the former CEO Jerry Yang rejected an offer from the largest software company. Microsoft has declined a final offer of as much as $ 33 per share, or $ 47.5 billion in June.
The regulation is "an extraordinary victory" for investors who seek to remove obstacles to an acquisition, "said Joel Friedlander, a lawyer for two pension funds in Detroit on Yahoo continued processing of the offer from Microsoft.
"We are very pleased that the settlement was approved because we believe it is in the best interests of the company and our shareholders," Kim Rubey, a spokeswoman for Yahoo, said in a statement e-mail.
Sunnyvale, California, Yahoo rose 52 cents, or 4.2 percent, to $ 13.05 in Nasdaq Stock Market trading.
Search Alliance Eyed
Yahoo said last month, the leaders, they are open to an alliance of research on the Internet with Microsoft to compete with industry leader Google Inc. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was reported February 24, it would be willing to work with Carol Bartz, the new CEO of Yahoo, to reach an agreement.
Bartz and Ballmer are under pressure to the land of their Internet search engines and online advertising businesses, which combined generated less than half of Google's revenue in the fourth quarter.
Ballmer said for the past several months and as recently repeated last week that he is no longer interested in buying all of Yahoo. Microsoft is interested in a type of Internet search agreement with Yahoo, he said.
Shareholders who are waiting today to modify the evolution of thought Ballmer will be disappointed, "said Brent Williams, analyst with Benchmark Co. in New York, the rate of Microsoft, who" hold ".
"Minor"
"I can not imagine that this would change the mind," he said. It is not even come close to fixing the major issues Microsoft is buying Yahoo. This has always been a minor issue. "
The day after the most recent comment Ballmer, Yahoo Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgenson said that his company was willing to look things. Yahoo has since announced Jorgenson will leave the company.
Google controls the Internet search market in the United States with 63 per cent of applications, according to ComScore Inc. Reston, Virginia. Yahoo Earnings fell in 10 of last 11 quarters.
Pension funds in Detroit in Delaware, argued that the combinations used Yang of Yahoo severance plan to thwart the Microsoft employees, providing incentives to quit rather than work for a buyer.
The plan, approved by the board of directors of Yahoo in the wake of the offer from Microsoft, has served as a "quasi-poison pill", the consulting firm Glass Lewis said investors Inc. A poison pill is a type of corporate-takeover defense.
The plan initially required that workers be paid if their jobs were eliminated or modified after a change of control of Yahoo. The company was said that the policy to retain employees. Investors have complained that Yahoo made it more expensive to acquire.
$ 1 billion starting
At a hearing in Georgetown, Delaware, today, Chandler Friedlander said that the plan would have forced Yahoo to pay more than $ 1 billion in severance if the Microsoft bid was accepted.
Friedlander also noted that officials have seen Microsoft Yahoo revised plan of the rupture that the creation of "bad words", the court unsealed documents in the case.
"The plan was an attempt by the gum of a takeover by Microsoft," he said. The agreement "is a search engine to deal more likely."
Under the settlement, Yahoo amends the plan to allow investors to launch proxy fights without triggering severance pay to employees, according to legal documents. He also changed the terms of the plan to make it more difficult for workers to claim benefits, if the company receives an offer.
Edward Welch, a lawyer in the case of Yahoo, Chandler said the company agreed to settle so that it can "move forward and conduct its affairs."
While he said he would approve the settlement today, Chandler said he Friedlander rule on the demand side of $ 12 million in legal fees and costs of the case.
The case is Police and Fire Retirement System of the City of Detroit v. Yahoo, CA3561, Delaware Chancery Court (Georgetown).
Judge of the Court of Chancery of Delaware William B. Chandler III said today he approved the agreement, which resolves on Yahoo investors trial leaders decided last year to reject Microsoft bid. Shareholders continued after the former CEO Jerry Yang rejected an offer from the largest software company. Microsoft has declined a final offer of as much as $ 33 per share, or $ 47.5 billion in June.
The regulation is "an extraordinary victory" for investors who seek to remove obstacles to an acquisition, "said Joel Friedlander, a lawyer for two pension funds in Detroit on Yahoo continued processing of the offer from Microsoft.
"We are very pleased that the settlement was approved because we believe it is in the best interests of the company and our shareholders," Kim Rubey, a spokeswoman for Yahoo, said in a statement e-mail.
Sunnyvale, California, Yahoo rose 52 cents, or 4.2 percent, to $ 13.05 in Nasdaq Stock Market trading.
Search Alliance Eyed
Yahoo said last month, the leaders, they are open to an alliance of research on the Internet with Microsoft to compete with industry leader Google Inc. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was reported February 24, it would be willing to work with Carol Bartz, the new CEO of Yahoo, to reach an agreement.
Bartz and Ballmer are under pressure to the land of their Internet search engines and online advertising businesses, which combined generated less than half of Google's revenue in the fourth quarter.
Ballmer said for the past several months and as recently repeated last week that he is no longer interested in buying all of Yahoo. Microsoft is interested in a type of Internet search agreement with Yahoo, he said.
Shareholders who are waiting today to modify the evolution of thought Ballmer will be disappointed, "said Brent Williams, analyst with Benchmark Co. in New York, the rate of Microsoft, who" hold ".
"Minor"
"I can not imagine that this would change the mind," he said. It is not even come close to fixing the major issues Microsoft is buying Yahoo. This has always been a minor issue. "
The day after the most recent comment Ballmer, Yahoo Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgenson said that his company was willing to look things. Yahoo has since announced Jorgenson will leave the company.
Google controls the Internet search market in the United States with 63 per cent of applications, according to ComScore Inc. Reston, Virginia. Yahoo Earnings fell in 10 of last 11 quarters.
Pension funds in Detroit in Delaware, argued that the combinations used Yang of Yahoo severance plan to thwart the Microsoft employees, providing incentives to quit rather than work for a buyer.
The plan, approved by the board of directors of Yahoo in the wake of the offer from Microsoft, has served as a "quasi-poison pill", the consulting firm Glass Lewis said investors Inc. A poison pill is a type of corporate-takeover defense.
The plan initially required that workers be paid if their jobs were eliminated or modified after a change of control of Yahoo. The company was said that the policy to retain employees. Investors have complained that Yahoo made it more expensive to acquire.
$ 1 billion starting
At a hearing in Georgetown, Delaware, today, Chandler Friedlander said that the plan would have forced Yahoo to pay more than $ 1 billion in severance if the Microsoft bid was accepted.
Friedlander also noted that officials have seen Microsoft Yahoo revised plan of the rupture that the creation of "bad words", the court unsealed documents in the case.
"The plan was an attempt by the gum of a takeover by Microsoft," he said. The agreement "is a search engine to deal more likely."
Under the settlement, Yahoo amends the plan to allow investors to launch proxy fights without triggering severance pay to employees, according to legal documents. He also changed the terms of the plan to make it more difficult for workers to claim benefits, if the company receives an offer.
Edward Welch, a lawyer in the case of Yahoo, Chandler said the company agreed to settle so that it can "move forward and conduct its affairs."
While he said he would approve the settlement today, Chandler said he Friedlander rule on the demand side of $ 12 million in legal fees and costs of the case.
The case is Police and Fire Retirement System of the City of Detroit v. Yahoo, CA3561, Delaware Chancery Court (Georgetown).
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