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» Will Bartz be Yahoo’s CEO a year from now? Unlikely as they need a media/ad leader in Armstrong’s mold going ahead.
» Is this how the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) homepage will look now?
» Will Yahoo get out of mobile search too? They have far better presence and carrier deals than MSFT, that’s for sure.
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After nearly a year of testing, Yahoo! is unveiling its overhauled home page, which it is describing as the “most radical” change to Yahoo.com since the company started 15 years ago.
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It didn’t take long for Carol Bartz, Yahoo Inc.’s new chief executive, to demonstrate that her style will differ dramatically from that of her predecessor — Jerry Yang, the genial, soft-spoken co-founder of the struggling Internet company.
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Definitely a tech heayweight and seems to be a good choice, generally. I wonder how well-known Bartz is outside of Silicon Valley though? Perhaps a higher profile female tech exec would have been better? Meg Whitman? (still at eBay, I think, and there’s talk she’s going to run eventually for Gov. of CA), or [...]

It’s literally been ten years since Yahoo updated its online calendar. And it’s been more than two years since Google launched its Web-based calendar. But tonight it will start rolling out a new drag-and-drop, Ajax calendar in a closed beta to Yahoo Mail users in the U.S., UK, India, Taiwan, and Brazil. You can [...]

If you read the comments on a recent New York Times blog post asking who uses AOL, you would think that a big number of the company’s users simply keep their AOL.com e-mail address to hear from long-lost correspondents who haven’t heard they have moved on to Gmail.
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Yahoo! has expanded its “Buzz Up” content recommendation service to include many more publishers, stepping up its challenge against Digg.Almost any publisher can now add a Buzz Up button to its Web site, Yahoo said. If a Web site doesn’t have a button, users can also submit a link to the content via Yahoo.
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Google’s lead over competitors has almost gotten embarrassing. The company grew its market share by roughly 1 percent in November, and by nearly 10 percent from November 2006, according to Compete.com.
The news is particularly bad for Yahoo, whose market share fell nearly 1 percent sequentially and roughly 7 percent from the year-ago period. If it’s [...]