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Jerry Yang resigns from Yahoo: A positive move for the Internet giant?
After 17 years at the helm 18 January 2012 10:02 GMT TweetAfter 17 years building up one of the largest web-based companies, co-founder of Yahoo, Jerry Yang is resigning from the board.
Yahoo was founded 1995 by Yang and David Filo, and for years saw huge growth as it came to dominate the web, however...
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Nokia Lumia 800 online ad allows you to play Snake with web pictures
Available on Yahoo! 17 November 2011 14:24 GMT TweetNokia has really been going for it with its advertising and marketing campaigns for the Lumia 800, its first Windows Phone 7 handset. There's going to be a massive live, free deadmau5 gig in London on 28 November, where 3D projections will be beamed...
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APP OF THE DAY: Yahoo! Weather review (Android)
Weather, with community interest 7 November 2011 18:00 GMT TweetSeveral things have become synonymous with smartphones: weather and stocks. With stock markets looking so depressing, perhaps your best use of time is sitting and watching the weather around the world.
You probably already have the provision...
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Yahoo AppSpot goes live for iPhone and Android
Helping you select your apps 16 June 2011 12:27 GMT TweetYahoo is chancing its arm in the app game - no, not by releasing its own app store as every other web giant seems to be doing - but by releasing an app that helps you look for other apps.
Yahoo AppSpot is available now for both iOS and Android...
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Yahoo Mail socially infused for revamp
"The best Yahoo mail ever" 24 May 2011 12:23 GMT TweetYahoo has announced a brand spanking new version of Yahoo mail (it's dropped the beta tag too) - one it describes as "the best Yahoo Mail ever".
Selling a new product or service as the "best ever" when it's in a field of just one isn't the...
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YouTube founders take Delicious bite
Hurley and Chen take the reigns 28 April 2011 12:57 GMT TweetYouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have take the plunge to buy the ailing Delicious off of Yahoo.
Back in March, Pocket-lint reported how Yahoo was willing to sell the social bookmarking service for as little as $1 million, after forking...
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Yahoo takes on Google Instant
Instant Search now in beta 24 March 2011 12:11 GMT TweetYahoo is looking to enter the Instant Search game with a platform going by that very name.
Answering the challenge laid down by Google when it introduced Google Instant last year, the exclamation-mark loving web giant has opened Yahoo Instant...
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Bookmarking not so Delicious for Yahoo
Web giant to make big loss selling platform 18 March 2011 11:17 GMT TweetYahoo's overindulgence at the startup dinner table as come back to haunt it as its gobbling up of a popular social bookmarking service, for as much as $15 million, has proved to be not as Delicious as it thought it would be (see what we did there?).
Yep,...
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Windows Phone 7 data leak: Yahoo responds
Web giant has its say 2 February 2011 11:38 GMT TweetOn Tuesday we reported how Microsoft had named Yahoo Mail as the culprit in the phantom data leak saga - but Yahoo has now hit back, giving its side of the story.
In a statement that landed in Pocket-lint's inbox Yahoo said:
"Yahoo!...
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Yahoo to blame for Windows Phone 7 data leak
And here's how to fix it 1 February 2011 9:55 GMT TweetMicrosoft has, after much digging, found the culprit for a data leak within its Windows Phone 7 operating system that was causing some users to have much higher than expected data costs.
What app or service was to blame? The finger seems to...
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Disney wants in on Yahoo TV widgets
Content could become available on connected TVs 10 January 2011 11:08 GMT TweetThe Wall Street Journal is reporting that Walt Disney (that company, not the man) is in talks with Yahoo with a view to getting content from some of its networks embedded onto Yahoo Connected internet TVs.
At the moment Yahoo's web-TV widgets...
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Flickr flirts with Google users
OpenID means you can now use Flickr with your Google credentials 29 October 2010 10:37 GMT TweetGoogle account holders can now log into image hosting site Flickr using their Google username and passwords, as a result of the OpenID initiative.
Flickr, as you may be aware, is owned by Google's rival Yahoo - so you may be questioning Yahoo's...
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Yahoo Messenger takes on FaceTime
Video calling added to popular IM app 12 October 2010 9:29 GMT TweetYahoo has updated its Messenger app for the iPhone, bringing with it video calling.
The feature will work between any two Yahoo (or other compatible) Messenger clients, whether that be iPhone 4 to iPhone 4 (as you'll need a front facing camera,...
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Paul Allen sues Google, Apple, Facebook, Yahoo, YouTube and more
Could change the way the Internet looks if successful 28 August 2010 15:24 GMT TweetPaul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, and not the character from American Psycho, is suing Apple, Google, AOL, eBay, Facebook, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo and YouTube citing that the online sites are all breaking patents owned by...
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Yahoo Premier League highlights are go!
Weekend's matches now available to watch online 16 August 2010 10:30 GMT TweetYahoo's tie-in with the English FA Premier League has started, with highlights packages of each of the matches played on the opening weekend now available for your viewing pleasure.
And to celebrate, the online portal whisked a couple of WAGs...

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