SBC Yahoo! Joins Anti-Pop-Up Crusade
Date: 2003-09-16 Source: InternetNews.com
Yahoo! and SBC Communications announced a number of new features to its broadband and dial-up Internet service, including the ability to block out unwanted pop-up advertisements and a service aimed at small businesses. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
SBC Yahoo's new look for fall
Date: 2003-09-16 Source: News.com
Yahoo and SBC Communications launched an updated version of their joint Internet access services on Tuesday, in a move that mirrors similar enhancements by competitors America Online and MSN. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yahoo: Would you pay to open up IM?
Date: 2003-09-09 Source: News.com
In an attempt to gauge demand for paid services on its Yahoo Messenger application, the company releases a survey hinting that paid, interoperable IM services could be on the way. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Portal power
Date: 2003-09-08 Source: Guardian Unlimited
Neil McIntosh finds little innovation or excitement in a new web portal being offered by BT and Yahoo! [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
BT to invest £10m in ad campaign for BT Yahoo! service
Date: 2003-09-02 Source: NewMediaZero
The BT Yahoo! package combines BT Openworld's broadband access with exclusive Yahoo! content. It'll offer personalised access, along with Yahoo! premium security services, news content and next-generation applications such as an exclusive version of Yahoo! Messenger. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yahoo! Yodel Challenge showcases trilling characters
Date: 2003-08-29 Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Around 40 competitors trilled for an appreciative crowd for more than two hours at Westlake Center during the Yahoo! Yodel Challenge. Children, veteran yodelers and plenty of first-timers warbled for a chance to win $10,000 and appear in a TV commercial for Yahoo! the Internet search engine. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yahoo! You're spoilt for choice of email address
Date: 2003-08-28 Source: Australian Financial Review
Of the four services that we tested, Yahoo! had the best mix of features and ease of use. Its overall layout seemed to be the best organised and easiest to navigate, and we like its anti-spam options better. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yahoo dips its toes in the blogging waters
Date: 2003-08-26 Source: Network World Fusion
The first blogging service to bear the Yahoo name has been launched by Yahoo Korea. Developed in-house by the Seoul-based subsidiary of Yahoo, Yahoo Blog went live on Thursday and is the first blogging service offered to users on the Yahoo network sites, said Brian Kim, a spokesman for Yahoo Korea. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yahoo plans partnership with TV's 'ET'
Date: 2003-08-25 Source: The Detroit News
Yahoo plans to announce Monday that it is partnering up with Paramount Television's popular celebrity news program, "Entertainment Tonight." Terms of the deal are not being disclosed, but Yahoo plans to take over the Web site for "Entertainment Tonight," sell its advertising space and stream video clips of its celebrity interviews, including outtakes not seen on the show. The move, long desired by Yahoo, inches the Internet portal closer to its goal of becoming an Internet entertainment destination, executives say. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yahoo To Continue With Free Services, Ramp Up India Centre
Date: 2003-08-14 Source: The Financial Express
It’s good news for Yahoo users. Yahoo Inc co-founder David Filo has said that the company does not have any plans to change its policy of offering free services such as e-mail, messenger and search engine over the Internet in the foreseeable future. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yahoo chief executive gains $11 million
Date: 2003-08-11 Source: SiliconValley.com
Making his first stock sale since becoming Yahoo's chief executive, Terry Semel collected a net gain of more than $11 million from exercising options and selling stock in the Sunnyvale Internet company last month. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yahoo! Stalked Overture for Over a Year
Date: 2003-08-11 Source: eWeek
Yahoo! Inc. so prized Overture Services Inc. that it stalked the online search engine for more than a year, overcoming early resistance to prevail with a takeover offer, according to documents filed Monday. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yahoo's house call
Date: 2003-08-07 Source: SFGate.com
In a new interactive service that started Wednesday, diabetes patients can feed their daily glucose measurements to a page on the Yahoo Health site and get a quick status report. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yahoo! Replaces Branding Agency
Date: 2003-08-06 Source: InternetNews.com
Yahoo! announced on Wednesday a shakeup in its brand advertising team, with WPP's Soho Square supplanting Havas' Black Rocket, a Euro RSCG agency. The move severs nearly decade-old ties between Yahoo! and Black Rocket. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yahoo to Give Games Access to New DSL Subscribers
Date: 2003-07-29 Source: Yahoo! News
Yahoo, a leading Internet media company, and SBC, the nation's second-largest local telephone company, said new subscribers to SBC Yahoo DSL would get a 30-day trial subscription to Yahoo Games on Demand Unlimited. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yahoo co-founder sells shares
Date: 2003-07-22 Source: News.com
David Filo, Yahoo's co-founder and largest individual shareholder, sells company stock for the first time, pulling in around $3 million before taxes and fees. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Engines of growth
Date: 2003-07-21 Source: MediaGuardian.co.uk
Yahoo!'s acquisition of the search engine Overture is a sign that the battle to dominate the most profitable part of the web is well and truly under way. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
