Internet News (Free subscription) | 32 minutes ago
Yahoo mixes old and new in Internet-age news service by Glenn Chapman, Yahoo News (Aug 21) Yahoo goes beyond aggregating news - it wants to have its own news service with reporters that get scoops. Good. "Unlike websites that...
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CNET News - 4 hours agoLet's hope Yahoo has finally learned that the maxim, "If you build it, they will come" simply does not apply to a social network. VNUNet.com Ars Technica
ZD Net Blog (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
I've been watching this battle for a couple of years now - this arm-wrestling match between the Washington suits and the Silicon Valley geeks to see which has more power. Tally one up for the geeks this week, who basically told Washington, "Yeah, you really don't matter." Maybe that's an extreme way of looking at it but how else do you explain the "We are going to move forward" comment to by Google...
Search Engine Watch Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Google is proceeding with its deal to serve ads on Yahoo's search results. CEO Eric Schmidt told Bloomberg TV that they were moving forward on the deal despite regulatory concerns . "We are in the process of talking to the government. They've not indicated one way or the other how they're dealing with us," said Scmidt. Do you think the Google-Yahoo deal will be stopped? Let us know in the comments....
TechSpot (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yahoo has decided to pull the plug on its Mash social networking service, in what has been another failed attempt to compete in this rapidly growing market. The one-year old service was meant to be the follow-up to Yahoo 360, a previous attempt at creating a social-network from the millions of Yahoo users, but never truly made it out of beta.
Wap Review (Free subscription) | yesterday
First Y!Mail version that can move mail to folders AND follow links and have them open right in Opera Mini
Valleywag (Free subscription) | yesterday
The soon-to-be-shuttered Yahoo Mash is not Yahoo's first failed social network. It's also not its second, third, or fourth. It took one whole hand for us to count Big Purple's failed attempts to get... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Valleywag (Free subscription) | yesterday
I just got a copy of an article in Capital, France's biggest business magazine, which neatly summarizes the history of Yahoo's troubles. The best part? Seeing the "Peanut Butter memo" —... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Cnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
The untimely death of Yahoo's would-be networking site is a lesson for the industry. It just isn't enough to invite people to build a friends list anymore.
Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
Google is clarifying remarks made earlier by Chief Executive Eric Schmidt that seemed to indicate the search giant would proceed with an advertising partnership with rival Yahoo, regardless of antitrust regulators’ views.
Valleywag (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yahoo community manager Matt Warburton sent out the following message to members of the company's experimental social network Yahoo Mash: "Thank you for trying out our Mash Beta service. We hope you... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Ars Technica (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yahoo has shut down its first social product, Mash, after announcing major plans to morph itself into a giant social network. Is this a positive sign of regaining focus, or a bad omen that Yahoo just can't do social networking? Read More...
Tech News at TechWhack (Free subscription) | yesterday
Google to go ahead with Yahoo deal in October Search engine giant Google has announced that they would go ahead with their deal with Yahoo by October this year. The collaboration between the two internet giants is facing a U.S. Justice Department probe. Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in a statement on their plans: “We are [...]
Top Tech News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yahoo plans to smash Mash, just one year after launching the new profile service. Yahoo describes Mash as a new approach to users' profiles that brings people together and keeps things interesting. Mash users are being told that Mash will close on Sept. 29. The company plans to consolidate what it has learned with Mash into a new profile experience. "We launched Mash as an experimental profile service...
Good Morning Silicone Valley (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last September, when Yahoo launched an invitation-only beta of something called Mash, CNet’s Rafe Needleman wrote, “Yahoo’s new social network, Mash, is appropriately named. It feels like a mash-up of Facebook, MySpace, and Wikipedia. It’s taken the best — or, at...
