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Yahoo! Opens Up to Developers

10/29/2008  I
Relevance: 9.74
Today Yahoo! officially introduced their"open strategy" platform, Y!OS. The Yahoo! Open Strategy platform consists of three development components, the Yahoo! Application Platform, the Yahoo! Social Platform, and the Yahoo! Query Language.
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Yahoo! backs! OpenID!

01/19/2008  I
Relevance: 8.60
Yahoo! has pledged to support OpenID from the end of the month, giving a massive boost for the online identity framework that aims to cut password headaches. Yahoo.com and sister site flickr.com will add support for OpenID 2.0, Yahoo! said on Thursday. Separately, Google's Blogger confirmed yesterday plans to become an OpenID provider.
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Microsoft considers new Yahoo! deal

05/19/2008  IIII
Relevance: 8.47
Microsoft is talking to Yahoo! about an alternative transaction that doesn't involve an acquisition, the world's largest software maker said Sunday. Yahoo said it is open to"pursuing any transaction which is in the best interest of our stockholders." The announcement comes two weeks after Microsoft abruptly stopped its pursuit of Yahoo, withdrawing a sweetened $46 billion offer and saying it would not make a hostile bid for the Internet company.
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Yahoo Dons A Black Hat?

01/13/2007  I
Relevance: 8.41
Competition between Yahoo and its competitors has been pretty fierce at times, and any number of onlookers have compared it to a war or a fight. Now it appears as if Yahoo has thrown the cyber equivalent of a"low blow": The company may be trying to trick users into abandoning Firefox and Google.
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Microsoft and Yahoo! renew their marriage talks

05/03/2008  IIIII
Relevance: 8.33
Microsoft and Yahoo! have pulled their chairs back up to the proverbial negotiating table. Citing an unnamed source, The New York Times insists the two giants are now in"active merger talks." Apparently, Microsoft made that outrageous Yahoo! bid even more outrageous, raising its valuation of Jerry Yang and crew"by several dollars" a share. So, Microsoft is saying that Yahoo! is worth somewhere between $46bn and $52bn. Yesterday, word was that Ballmer and the Ballmerettes were mulling a raise to $33 a share, before some large Yahoo! shareholders insisted on $35 to $37.
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Choosers Can Be Beggars; Bloodied Hands Applaud Amazon

11/08/2008  IIII
Relevance: 8.29
Yahoo was quite the chooser last spring when Microsoft offered to buy it -- the Yahoo board held out for a higher price. Now it's looking more and more like the beggar. Its relationship with Google is pretty much finished before it even had a chance to begin, and it appears Yahoo is reaching the end of its rope.
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Better Late Than Never, Yahoo Debuts Zimbra-Powered Calendar

10/09/2008  I
Relevance: 8.27
Yahoo has unveiled a new dynamic calendar service powered by open source developer Zimbra. Yahoo Calendar offers standard Web 2.0 information-sharing options along with an updated drag-and-drop interface and a handful of unique options. The program is available in beta to Yahoo users as of Wednesday.
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Google Offers to Help Yahoo

02/05/2008  I
Relevance: 8.27
Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt called Yahoo Inc. CEO Jerry Yang to offer his company's help in any effort to thwart Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, say people familiar with the matter.
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Ellison Claims Yahoo as Oracle Linux Convert

03/23/2007  I
Relevance: 8.24
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison stated this week that his company has taken on Yahoo as its biggest Linux client. During the announcement, Ellison fanned controversy by claiming his company had replaced competitor Red Hat at Yahoo. Both Yahoo and Red Hat have adamantly denied that the leading Linux operator has been displaced.
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Microsoft! needs! Yahoo! developers! developers! developers!

02/02/2008  II
Relevance: 8.21
The rhetoric surrounding Steve Ballmer's unsolicited $44.6bn offer for Yahoo! will focus on the obvious - the potential market share growth that a Microsoft and Yahoo! tie-up would have against Google. For all the talk of saving Yahoo! shareholders, Google is uppermost in the Microsoft chief executive's mind, and Microsoft is - once more - trying to buy its way into the internet club having already spent billions to no visible effect.
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