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.

• Xoopit Wins with Yahoo – December 16, 2008
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• The Advertising Collective: AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft Join Forces – November 9, 2011
• Carol Bartz Gets Fired as Yahoo CEO Over the Phone – September 7, 2011
• Delicious Has Been Acquired by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen from Yahoo – April 28, 2011

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“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.”

via – Yahoo

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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!

• Yahoo Mail Gets International Expansion into New Markets and More Languages – December 7, 2011
• The Advertising Collective: AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft Join Forces – November 9, 2011
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• Delicious Has Been Acquired by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen from Yahoo – April 28, 2011
• Yahoo Buzz Gets Killed Off by Yahoo – April 18, 2011

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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!

• Are AVOS Planning Advertising Solution for Delicious? – May 9, 2011
• Yahoo Mail Gets International Expansion into New Markets and More Languages – December 7, 2011
• The Advertising Collective: AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft Join Forces – November 9, 2011
• Carol Bartz Gets Fired as Yahoo CEO Over the Phone – September 7, 2011
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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.

• Yahoo Mail Gets International Expansion into New Markets and More Languages – December 7, 2011
• The Advertising Collective: AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft Join Forces – November 9, 2011
• Carol Bartz Gets Fired as Yahoo CEO Over the Phone – September 7, 2011
• SeeSaw Hits the Deadpool: Couldnt Emulate Hulu Success – May 30, 2011
• Delicious Has Been Acquired by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen from Yahoo – April 28, 2011

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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.

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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 Mail Gets International Expansion into New Markets and More Languages – December 7, 2011
• The Advertising Collective: AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft Join Forces – November 9, 2011
• Carol Bartz Gets Fired as Yahoo CEO Over the Phone – September 7, 2011
• Delicious Has Been Acquired by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen from Yahoo – April 28, 2011
• Yahoo Buzz Gets Killed Off by Yahoo – April 18, 2011

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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!

• Yahoo Mail Gets International Expansion into New Markets and More Languages – December 7, 2011
• The Advertising Collective: AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft Join Forces – November 9, 2011
• Carol Bartz Gets Fired as Yahoo CEO Over the Phone – September 7, 2011
• Delicious Has Been Acquired by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen from Yahoo – April 28, 2011
• Yahoo Buzz Gets Killed Off by Yahoo – April 18, 2011

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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.

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• Infographic: Smartphone Apps – June 15, 2011
• [infographic] The Brutal Decline of Yahoo! – November 27, 2010
• Yahoo Mail Gets International Expansion into New Markets and More Languages – December 7, 2011
• The Advertising Collective: AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft Join Forces – November 9, 2011
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• Yahoo: The Rise and Fall: Infographic – January 20, 2011
• Yahoo!’s GeoCities to Close Forever – July 11, 2009
• Yahoo Mail Gets International Expansion into New Markets and More Languages – December 7, 2011
• The Advertising Collective: AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft Join Forces – November 9, 2011
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Currently the iPhone OS defaults to Google when you open Safari. Apparently Apple seeks to offer other alternatives to searching, perhaps looking to take away dependency on Google. According to the article, Apple is not dropping Google entirely, they seem to only want to make other options more visible. Also stated in the article, “Apple already provides an option to use Yahoo for web search in Safari, although that option is not obvious and requires visiting system settings to make the switch.”

Have Apple and Microsoft struck an alliance? It would appear so initially, but because Apple is already offering Yahoo, perhaps they will make Yahoo another prominent option. There’s a very long standing history in how the companies involved have been mixed into all this. Microsoft has been asking for Bing to be more prominent, Apple has integrated some of Microsoft’s mapping technology into their services, and Apple is not entirely happy with the dependency of some of their core apps on Google’s presence. It’s a long and drawn out history that the article does a great job detailing.

Personally I’m not a fan of Bing, I don’t see it becoming a huge factor on the OS as  a search option, but we’d love to hear your thoughts. Are you happy just using Google on Safari when you go online, or do options like Yahoo and Bing make a better offering?

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The idea to remove some of the clutter and allow users to integrate social platforms and interact with other sites was vital, especially in an era when so many are looking for the one stop shop of utilities that will serve their needs. Some of the features added include:

• sweep feature which allows users to clear their entire email with one click.
• single-click feature which allows for one click of an email from a specific sender and deleting all of their emails.
• ability to edit Powerpoint and documents in the email whether the user as the application or not.
• active previews of emails to include attachments like photos, videos, and more.
• watch YouTube videos, check social networks all without leaving their inbox.

These changes are big when you consider how long the service has remained stagnant while its competitors made big strides to attract users. Still Hotmail is still considered one of the most widely used email services with over 350 million active users.

While Hotmail has added these new additions is it really enough to sway people away from Gmail for example? Or will Hotmail still prevail due to its simplicity and lack of “bloat”, as it’s called, that Gmail users might experience.

What are your thoughts? A winner for Microsoft? I used to be a Hotmail user but went to Gmail because of the wide offerings available. Hotmail became boring and dull even in the UI experience. Perhaps now it’s got some life breathed into it. We’d like to hear your thoughts.

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Twitter is steadily climbing to reach the 50 million tweets per day mark. This huge social network now represents a large proportion of the information shared on the web. More and more people are discovering breaking news through its trending topics (millions found out about the Haitian earthquake via Twitter).

Now Yahoo! have just signed a deal to be put on what Twitter calls it’s Firehose. This means Tweets will now be continually indexed by Yahoo!.

“Similar to the partnerships we have made with other large internet companies, Yahoo! will receive what has been dubbed “Firehose”—a full feed of public tweets sent to Twitter and our partners every second of every day from all around the world.”

Through this arrangement, you’ll be able to find tweets through Yahoo! Search amongst other Yahoo! services Mail and Sport. It is also said that Yahoo! will be building unique Twitter clients to enable people to tweet from inside the Yahoo! network.

Twitter hit the nail on the head when they discussed how Tweets are vital to the social news scene and their inclusion in other big Internet services is vital:

“Tweets may be short, but they have proven over and over again to contain valuable information. As the Twitter information network grows and expands, it becomes more valuable for everyone who participates. Our open approach helps us get closer to providing universal connectivity to a global network of immediate information.”

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• Google is Offering $4 Billion Dollars to Buy Twitter? – November 20, 2010

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However, Yahoo! have just announced that Go is to suffer the same fate as GeoCities did last month – it’ll be leaving us. Come January 12th next year, when you turn on Yahoo! Go on your mobile you’ll get an error message.

Undoubtedly this is because of the competition from more powerful apps and platforms such as those on the iPhone.

However I think this might be slightly pre-mature because the app is still being sold on phones as you read this. Perhaps Yahoo! are trying to push us into the smart phone market?

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SurfCanyon strives to change the user’s search experience and focus not just on getting content, but becoming a tool for discovery. Much like a tool we spoke about some time ago, Worio, SurfCanyon attaches itself to your browser of choice and adds a target tab that allows for further discover of related content right from your normal search. The reason behind such an app is the fact that sometimes your content is not where you expect it. I with users not typically going past page 3, SurfCanyon will pull related content together for you and place it right under all the links you see on the first page.

You don’t just get deeper results, but as seen below you can dig even deeper into your results. This provides a real drill down experience for search discovery. This immersive search experience might be something you’ve been longing for. There’s lots of results to search through and the concept is to provide you answers for even the most complicated of queries.

• Yahoo and Microsoft Search – Possible Collaboration – July 29, 2009
• Bing Replacing Google on iPhone 4? – June 1, 2010
• Yahoo! and Bing Still Rivals – August 25, 2009
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• Bing Shows us a New “Thelma & Louise” Ending – August 15, 2010

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As it happens, although the two search engines will work together to defeat Google they will still compete for glory. Perhaps we will see a kind of WW2 cooperation just like the bitter Allies united to defeat the Nazis…not that Google is a Nazi.

A senior vice president of Yahoo! said “We are Yahoo and that will continue…We collaborate on the back-end but we are competitors on the front-end,”

I guess this makes sense. I mean, what were we all expecting? Yahoo! and Bing to come together like two lost lovers? Nonsense. This is a recession and both companies will by going full steam ahead to stay afloat. They will share advertising revenue with both search engines using the Bing ad model. The deal is due to come into affect next year and will last for ten years. By the end of that time will Google have been defeated? And will Yahoo! be left needing Bing more than Bing needs Yahoo?

• Internet Search Expanded, Online Information Drilldown – November 15, 2009
• Yahoo and Microsoft Search – Possible Collaboration – July 29, 2009
• Bing Replacing Google on iPhone 4? – June 1, 2010
• Monitoring your Search Engines Positions – July 2, 2009
• What Font Does Google Use in their Logo: Fonts of Leading Internet Brands – March 8, 2011

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A while back, Yahoo! stealthily rolled out Yahoo! Meme in the Portuguese language only. Nobody was all too sure why they did this because as business goes, you’re supposed to promote, promote, promote! Now their reasoning is clear.

It was a test. To see if it stood a chance without causing the company any embarrassment if it failed. They are now tackling Twitter on the global front by launching the micro-blogging platform in the second biggest language in the world; Spanish.

While people all over the world do use Twitter, studies have shown that services are received better by the public when they are tailored specifically to their needs – in this case their language.

While I can’t see Meme over running Twitter on the English servers I can see the new Yahoo! service picking up steam in South America, Mexico, West Africa and of course Spain.

• Twitter and Yahoo Team Up for Real Time Tweets in Search Results – February 28, 2010
• Blogging Fight Back Against Twitter – November 26, 2009
• What Font Does Google Use in their Logo: Fonts of Leading Internet Brands – March 8, 2011
• Google is Offering $4 Billion Dollars to Buy Twitter? – November 20, 2010
• Tumblr Is Growing Fast: Perfect Tool for Quick Blogging – March 9, 2010

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It has emerged that the companies’ lack of market holding has led to Yahoo! putting a clause in the agreement which states that Yahoo! can back out of the deal at any time before the scheduled five year renewal if their revenue share falls too low.

Yahoo! and Microsoft failed to specify what exactly the number was that would entitle Yahoo! to pull out should revenue fall below it however it is expected that the danger zone will be in the first eighteen months.

This is because any new service, whether continuing on from an old one or starting from scratch will experience growing pains.  A few other details have emerged since the deal was officially filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

For example, Microsoft must hire 400 Yahoo! engineers and pay them “market-competitive” wages. Furthermore, a full deal must be struck by October 27th otherwise the debates will be brought to a arbitration panel.  Time is money.

I guess now we all have to play the waiting game. I wonder in two years time will be caught saying “I Binged myself and I’m 5^th in the search results!”.

• Bing Replacing Google on iPhone 4? – June 1, 2010
• Twitter and Yahoo Team Up for Real Time Tweets in Search Results – February 28, 2010
• Internet Search Expanded, Online Information Drilldown – November 15, 2009
• Yahoo and Microsoft Search – Possible Collaboration – July 29, 2009
• The Advertising Collective: AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft Join Forces – November 9, 2011

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A whopping 67% of us ‘Google’ things. If we want to know something we simply ’Google it’, as it has become known. Like any good online company, their name is also a verb. Just like Twitter with Tweet. They have a hug share of the market – undoubtedly. Now however, they may have their first real competitor in years.

Anyone remember last year when Microsoft was trying to buy Yahoo! for almost 50 Billion dollars? It went down in flames. But the inter-company relationship didn’t end. Now, they’re discussing a possible collaboration between the two search engines –Bing (Microsoft) and Yahoo!.

If this were to go ahead then it would offer a chunk of healthy competition to the dominant Google. The news storyalone would send thousands flocking, to give it a whirl – but Yahoo and Microsoft better be careful.

People like their search engine. For me, its been Yahoo! imply because I like a bit of news before I search and also because it was the first search engine I ever used so I just kind of stuck with it. People don’t like change – and when they do change they don’t want to be insulted by too many sponsored results like over at Ask.com or search results that make them want to ‘Google’ .

It’s impossible to tell what the end result would be from this mutation of search engines. Would it be Yahoo!, powered by Bing or the other way around? They do have a plan to split the revenue between them but what about the work load such as PR, development and staffing the site. Now might not be a good time to invest in any search engine as there’s going to be a war, with casualties. I’ll wait until the final few blows before I put my money on one of them.

• Internet Search Expanded, Online Information Drilldown – November 15, 2009
• Bing Replacing Google on iPhone 4? – June 1, 2010
• Yahoo! and Bing Still Rivals – August 25, 2009
• Bing Shows us a New “Thelma & Louise” Ending – August 15, 2010
• Yahoo! Has Clause to Back Out From Microsoft Deal – August 5, 2009

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Yahoo has confirmed that is has purchased a small start-up located in San Francisco in order to add better photo functionality to their Web Mail. The company which has been bought out is called Xoopit and is an emerging contender in the photo sharing world. The service allows users to share photos easily on a host of different sites such as Flickr and Facebook by taking them from their e-mail inboxes.

On the company blog, Bryan Lamkin, the senior vice-president said:

“ Why is this such a big deal? Yahoo! Mail is actually home to one of the largest online photo repositories in the world. And every day, millions of you use Yahoo! Mail as your primary way to share the photos of important moments in your lives. While social networks and community sites are great for sharing photos with everyone you know, we realize it’s not for everyone or every occasion. For many, email is still best for sharing photos among a more select group of friends or family. And now we’re making it all that much easier for you.”

Xoopit seems over the moon with the new deal. They have updated their homepage screaming Yahoo! everywhere. On their company blog they said that “the Xoopit team today sees this acquisition as an exceptional path for us in achieving our vision. Over the last few months, we have left every conversation with the Yahoo! team thinking that together we can wow the world”

The specific financial deal has not been revealed but it is estimated to be in the region of $20 million. That amount of money is no chump change for a new group of start-up creators who will hopefully go on to create even better websites and services in the future.

• Xoopit Wins with Yahoo – December 16, 2008
• Yahoo Mail Gets International Expansion into New Markets and More Languages – December 7, 2011
• The Advertising Collective: AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft Join Forces – November 9, 2011
• Carol Bartz Gets Fired as Yahoo CEO Over the Phone – September 7, 2011
• Oxygen Accelerator: How to Get Your Startup Funded in the UK – May 9, 2011

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Geocities was created fifteen years ago when the internet was barely getting onto its feet. People went mad using basic HTML creating what are now viewed as utterly horrific websites such as this one. Now, after fifteen years of offering free hosting services Yahoo! have finally decided that it is time to close it down once and for all.

October 26^th will be the day all geocities websites will be deleted from the servers. Yahoo! sent out an e-mail advising all geocities members to back up all geocities files onto their computer or move their website to another hosting facility.

“We know your files are important to you, and we want to make moving to Web Hosting as easy and affordable as we can. For a limited time, you can move your files automatically, take advantage of terrific features like a personalized domain name and email, even redirect your GeoCities web address to your new site — all for only $4.99 a month for a full year.” Read an e-mail sent out to all GeoCities subscribers today.

In true business fashion, Yahoo! are using this closure to pedal their own hosting services from $4.99 per month for small businesses and personal users.

It seems like the last remaining bits of the old internet are dying away. Personally, I see it as a good and bad thing. Bad because I’ll have to recover my website and transfer it elsewhere but good because the internet is prevailing even during a recession.

• [infographic] The Brutal Decline of Yahoo! – November 27, 2010
• Yahoo Mail Gets International Expansion into New Markets and More Languages – December 7, 2011
• The Advertising Collective: AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft Join Forces – November 9, 2011
• Carol Bartz Gets Fired as Yahoo CEO Over the Phone – September 7, 2011
• Delicious Has Been Acquired by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen from Yahoo – April 28, 2011

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How to use it is very simple, you don’t even have to be registered to receive any result, you can query and get some instant results about your site and a special keyword. The free registration can also give you: Email Alerts (when position changes or when a competitor has passed you); weekly reports; and monitor for Google’s Page Rank and Alexa.

Here’s a query about my blog with a keyword that I know I have a good ranking about it:

It is pretty cool to have these results and see the differences between the search engines; and of course will be very helpful to you if you are setting up your business to evaluate the status of popularity.

• Internet Search Expanded, Online Information Drilldown – November 15, 2009
• Bing Replacing Google on iPhone 4? – June 1, 2010
• Yahoo! and Bing Still Rivals – August 25, 2009
• Yahoo and Microsoft Search – Possible Collaboration – July 29, 2009
• Google Panda Got It Wrong! Scrapers Out Ranking Original Content: Crenk Example – May 18, 2011

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Google and Yahoo! Are the two main search engines in the West. The two have been around long enough for everyone to use them instinctively without much regard to competitors. Seriously, if you want to know something you either Google it or…uh, ‘Yahoo!’ it.

Now, Yahoo! have released an ad-on of their Delicious affiliate site for Google’s Chrome Internet browser. This is one of the first updates to become available since Google first released Chrome. Up until recently the browser was considered by many developers and programmers to be unstable and unsuitable to develop add-ons for.

Google call these new ad-ons ‘extensions’ are now growing in popularity. However, many are still hopeful of Google releasing more powerful ad-blockers.

Yahoo!’s Delicious extensions allows the user to log in and post their bookmarks and comments. This is considered very basics in comparison as to what’s available in Mozilla and internet Explorer but it is a step in the right direction – it’s also a very ‘tongue-in-cheek’ move by Yahoo; beating Google at their own game.

• Yahoo Mail Gets International Expansion into New Markets and More Languages – December 7, 2011
• The Advertising Collective: AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft Join Forces – November 9, 2011
• Carol Bartz Gets Fired as Yahoo CEO Over the Phone – September 7, 2011
• Delicious Has Been Acquired by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen from Yahoo – April 28, 2011
• Yahoo Buzz Gets Killed Off by Yahoo – April 18, 2011

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The application basically hijacked my email and it was difficult to move around the intrusive menu bars it installed, and finally I threw in the towel and deleted it. Now, it has become apparent that with Yahoo redesigning their mail platform, Xoopit is set to reach over 275 million Yahoo Mail users around the world. Opportunities like this don’t come around a lot, and Xoopit is bound to achieve new levels of interest with this amazing boon to their application.

This is an opportunity to reinvent itself, and possibly build a profitable application. While talks with Yahoo are open for monetizing ideas, it looks like the pairing will benefit from one another.

If you’re using Yahoo Mail, and when the Xoopit addition comes out, chime in below in the comments section and let us know your thoughts.

• Yahoo Mail Gets International Expansion into New Markets and More Languages – December 7, 2011
• Microsoft Changes Look of Hotmail – Thoughts? – May 24, 2010
• Yahoo! Buys a Start-Up Site – July 23, 2009
• The Advertising Collective: AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft Join Forces – November 9, 2011
• Carol Bartz Gets Fired as Yahoo CEO Over the Phone – September 7, 2011

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