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• Yahoo boosts Web data joiner

  Yahoo is enhancing on Wednesday its Web service API for querying and joining data across any Web source or service on the Web, with the addition of capabilities to write and modify data on Web services.

• Yahoo aims at customization with new home page

  When Yahoo rolls out the new version of its Yahoo.com home page later this year, people will be able to customize it to such a degree that the need for the company's My Yahoo personalized home page service will drop significantly.

• Former Yahoo exec Weiner takes over as LinkedIn CEO

  Former Yahoo executive Jeff Weiner has been appointed CEO of LinkedIn, where he has served as interim president since January.

• Yahoo adds tools to bolster search results

  Yahoo is adding two features to its SearchMonkey development platform to help site owners enrich the results that their pages generate on Yahoo Search.

• Yahoo seeks Hadoop boost with release of internal version

  To advance the adoption of the Hadoop technology for processing massive data sets, Yahoo will release a version of the software it has perfected to power many of its key sites and services.

• Bing overtakes Yahoo in global search wars

  It didn't take very long - less than a week - for Microsoft Corp.'s Bing to surpass Yahoo Inc. to become the number two search engine in the U.S. and worldwide.

• Microsoft not only firm banning IM access to U.S. enemy nations

  Besides Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and possibly AOL LLC have also cut access to their instant messaging services to citizens of countries deemed hostile to the United States. But it's unclear how effective those measures will be at preventing access.

• Racism, hate, militancy sites proliferating via social networking

  Rascism, hate, and militancy sites have tripled in number over the past year on the Web and within corners of social-networking sites like Facebook, YouTube, Google and Yahoo, according to one vendor tracking them.

• Yahoo sets date for shutting down 360 social network

  Yahoo will close its Yahoo 360 social-networking site in July, something it originally planned to do in early 2008 and later delayed to last year's second half.

• Search war is on: Microsoft's Bing fires salvo at Google

  After weeks of speculation and pre-release ballyhoo by bloggers and online commentators, Microsoft Corp. this morning took the wraps off its new search site, Bing.

• Report: Yahoo's CEO ready for a Microsoft deal

  Yahoo's CEO said Wednesday she was open to discussing a Microsoft acquisition, provided the deal were sweet.

• Sources: UI features, 'search mashups' on tap for Kumo

  The new search engine Microsoft is expected to launch this week boasts features to improve the relevance of search query results, partly by letting users set custom profile information the engine uses to tailor results, said sources familiar with the company's plans.

• Yahoo upgrades iPhone app for voice search

  Mobile searchers have another resource at their fingertips, this time in the form of Yahoo's updated iPhone app, which now includes voice-recognition search capabilities. Yahoo's oneSearch functions much like the Google iPhone app: users press a button and verbalize what they're looking for -- and hope it understands British accents.

• Yahoo vows death to the '10 blue links'

  Yahoo offered a peek at how its search results are likely to be displayed a few months from now, as it tries to find a better alternative to the traditional "10 blue links."

• Yahoo shifts gears on mobile app

  Smartphone browsers are good enough to deliver Yahoo Mobile, so the search provider has killed off an on-device software version of the product that it was beta testing.