Yahoo has decided to finally open up their Yahoo! Mail service into other markets with new languages. The international expansion will include 27 new markets and 22 new languages. This means that Yahoo! Mail is in more than 70 markets and 46 languages worldwide.
Ten new languages in Asia, including eight new languages in India alone.
Twelve new languages in Europe, including Serbian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Croatian.
Several new markets around the globe, including South Africa, Belgium, Austria and Portugal.
It seems like the heavy weights of the industry are joining forces to try to gain some advertising marketshare away from Google (im not sure if 3 on 1 is fair). Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft will be offering each other’s premium non-reserved online display inventory to their respective advertising customers. This will all start in 2012 and they say the partnership is non-exclusive so it will mean they will still compete on getting agencies and the bigger contracts.
“We’re thrilled to partner with Microsoft and AOL and bring to market what we believe will be a more efficient, effective and more effortless way to access true premium inventory and formats,” says Ross Levinsohn, Yahoo! EVP of the Americas. “There has a been a significant shift in how inventory is bought and sold, and we’re now 100% focused on controlling our own destiny, working directly with marketers and agencies and driving better returns for our advertising partners.”
I didnt realise that this kind of shit even happened to the top of executives. Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has been fired. Here is her email to all staff:
From: “Carol Bartz”
To: “all-worldwide@yahoo-inc.com”
Subject: Goodbye
To all,
I am very sad to tell you that I’ve just been fired over the phone by Yahoo’s Chairman of the Board. It has been my pleasure to work with all of you and I wish you only the best going forward.
Carol
This is why Yahoo is turning into a complete joke of a company!
It is now official, the YouTube founders have started a new company called AVOS and they have acquired Delicious from Yahoo. AVOS plan on continuing the service that the users have love and they will be making delicious even more of the vital social media destination.
Yahoo will continue to run the service for the next few months and then the move to AVOS servers will happen. Chad Hurley and Steve Chen (YouTube founders) are building an exciting new company and we look forward to watching the Delicious service continue to develop!
Yahoo has announced that they will be killing off Yahoo Buzz. Yahoo Buzz was a Digg like service where users submit stories, social news! It now seems as if there is only one player in this market and thats Reddit!
Yahoo! Buzz will be discontinued as of April 21, 2011. As of this date, you will be unable to access the Yahoo! Buzz site. This was a hard decision. However this will help us focus on our core strengths and new innovations. We appreciate your patronage. The Yahoo! Buzz Team.
Buzz was a solid community, but it didnt really have a strong design or strong community, so it was never going to be a leader in the social news market.
Have you ever wondered where what font some of your favourite internet brands use in their logo’s? Well HongKiat has let the world know. Logos such as Google, Yahoo, NewsGator, Skype, Digg, Twitter and more. You can now find out which fonts they use and then download and use that font.
This is not the first time we have heard reports about Yahoo selling their stake in Yahoo Japan. For a long time now shareholders have been putting a lot of pressure on Yahoo to sell their stake in Yahoo Japan and Alibaba.
It now seems that Yahoo is in advanced talks to sell its 35 percent stake in Yahoo Japan to SoftBank, which already owns about 40 percent of the company. However, instead of selling the stake outright it might allow SoftBank to buy a stake in Yahoo itself and exchange it for the company’s shares in Yahoo Japan.
Of course there are no comments from Yahoo on the current reports, but this acquisition does make a lot of sense and should really help to push up Yahoo’s stock value.
Currently the Yahoo stock price is at the $16.75 mark and it has been floating between $12.95 and $19.12 for the past year. I can see the sale of Yahoo Japan really pushing the price up towards the top mark again.
If Carol Bartz’s comments in the earnings call in January is anything to go by, then we can expect this deal to go through.
Yahoo has just announced they have finally released their Yahoo Finance on the iPad. iPad users now have anytime access to their portfolios and stocks they care about most through MarketDash.
The interactive app takes advantage of the iPad’s multi-touch capabilities so users can manipulate views of stock charts; the ability to scroll across hours, days or months of market action; plot points in time; and even compare multiple stock tickers in one compelling chart. Anyone interested in following the market, or specific stocks on the iPad can now use Yahoo! Finance’s reliable and personalized tools anywhere, anytime.
To download MarketDash, go to the App Store on iPad and let us know what you think!
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Yahoo will soon launch their own personalised mobile content play. This smart platform is expected to be launched at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Yahoo’s upcoming software will power a number of mobile applications serving content in several contexts. This is new tool would be available over the web, on any device, but is developed to cater mobiles platforms such as Android, iOS and other OS.
Techcrunch has put together a great infographic about the rise and fall of Yahoo. What do you think about Yahoo and the current status of their company?
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