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  • Ballmer meeting with Alibaba CEO stirs Yahoo speculation

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer met last week with Jack Ma, the CEO of top Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group, which controls Yahoo's operations in China. The meeting drove speculation in China that they may have discussed a potential Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo.

  • 10 web brands account for half all internet time

    The top 10 web brands are getting stronger, despite the proliferation of new sites and services. The 10 web brands on which Britons spend the most time accounted for nearly half of all UK internet time - compared to less than 42 percent a year ago.

  • JavaScript - the Web site performance killer, Google guru says

    Nowadays, even regular Web surfers know some of the things to avoid when designing a Web site for fast performance. Cut the number of requests to the Web server. Shrink JPEG sizes. Employ a content delivery network vendor like Akamai Technologies Inc. or Limelight Networks Inc.

  • Yahoo Q1 revenue and profit tumble

    Yahoo's profit and revenue fell sharply in the first quarter, ended March 31, 2009, as the beleaguered Internet company added a softening online ad market to its list of woes.

  • Reports: Yahoo plans more job cuts

    Yahoo may announce a new round of layoffs next week, the third one since early 2008 and the first staff-trimming under new CEO Carol Bartz, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are reporting.

  • Judge OKs settlement in Yahoo shareholder suit

    Removing one barrier to a potential Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo, a judge approved a settlement that will roll back a Yahoo employee severance plan that critics described as a poison pill.

  • Yahoo adds BOSS API, fees for service level

    Yahoo is enhancing its service for building custom search engines with access to structured data, and is also introducing fees for using BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) in order to support its plan to offer developers service-level agreements (SLAs) and increased daily query limits.

  • Yahoo tests an online notepad for its search engine

    Yahoo has developed an online notepad for its search engine where people will be able to save links, type notes, copy and paste content from Web sites, and then share that information with others via e-mail.

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