Rohan Lund: Yahoo!7′s man at the top is on the acquisition huntYahoo!7’s lawyer turned digital chief can build a new platform and perform a swift deal – all while convincing two different shareholder groups that it’s a good idea, writes Angela Priestley.
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The trend towards news as niche
Massive online enterprises such as AOL and Yahoo are being outmanoeuvred by small websites that deliver targeted information, providing yet another lesson of the internet age, writes David Carr.
Osama bin who?
The death of Osama bin Laden may be one of the year’s biggest stories, but according to data published by Yahoo! a great deal of American youth have no idea who he was, reports Jamelle Bouie.
A new perk for Google employees: servants
In recent months the US tech industry has experienced a shortage of programmers, resulting in companies like Google and Yahoo using various perks to lure employees. Google’s latest appetiser: servants, writes Ryan Tate.
Journalism isn’t dying, just being redirected
While traditional news organisations continue to downsize their staff and struggle to stay afloat, some newsrooms - particularly online newsrooms - are actually expanding. Companies like Yahoo and AOL are hiring, not firing, writes Scott Rosenberg.
Yahoo writes an internet style guide
Yahoo is publishing a style guide for the internet style guide — in book form. Finally, an end to those heated newsroom pwned/pwn3d debates!
Google’s China move: fresh pressure to heed human rights wrongs
Internet and media companies desperate to gain a share of the massive Chinese market are now facing fresh pressure to heed human rights concerns, following Google’s announcement that it will cease to censor search engine results in China.
The real reason Google has turned on China
It’s nice to see Google finally adhering to its ethos of “do-no-evil” in China — but the company’s decision end its censorship of Google.cn has far more to do with business than human rights, says Sarah Lacy.
HuffPo and Politico prove the net does pay
While many newspapers are struggling, online news organisations HuffPo and Politico are reporting multimillion dollar revenue and new jobs. Can companies like Yahoo learn from them?
A girl always remembers her first time: a tribute to GeoCities
Yahoo has finally pulled the plug on GeoCities. Though most will say “good riddance” to the home of eye-searing fluro text, badly animated GIFs and never-ending Midi tunes, Ruth Brown looks back fondly on the site that popped her HTML cherry.
Is FarmVille the next Google?
Mobile phone apps aren’t all iPee Drunk style games. The app economy is booming, with Zynga, creators of FarmVille, being touted as the next big thing, while Apple’s App Store dominates the market.
RIP GeoCities: a loss for fluro text, animated GIFs and endless Midi files
Today, Yahoo is finally euthanising GeoCities, the original free, design-you-own webpage service where many netizens got their first taste of web mastery and popped their HTML cherries. Vale.
Rupert the Sun King’s moral posture takes on a slouch
Over the weekend, Rupert Murdoch used some nasty language at the so-called World Media Summit in Beijing to slag off the likes of Google and Yahoo, describing them as content “kleptomaniacs” because they aggregate News Corporation’s content.
A tale of two search engines
Yahoo actually reaches the same number of internet users as Google — but earns about a tenth of the profit. CNNMoney explains how two seemingly similar search companies can have such differing levels of success.
Crikey wrap: Yahoo + Microsoft = Google killer?
Yahoo has 20% of the search engine market, Microsoft 8% and Google 65%. So it was perhaps a no-brainer that Microsoft and Yahoo would eventually hook up to defeat their common enemy. Here’s what pundits are saying about the deal.
The search is over: Yahoo gives in to Microsoft
Yahoo has officially given up on trying to best Google in the search engine game, finally reaching a partnership deal with Microsoft after years of negotiations and scrapping their own search engine in favour of the software giant’s new model, Bing.
Yahoo pulls the plug on Geocities
Pioneers of free user-designed WYSIWYG sites, Geocities, is closing. Fans of flashing, fluro text and eye-searing backgrounds mourn.
Media briefs: High class ladies: how they roll in Cairns
Cairns Post readers on how they’ll spend their $900, SMH’s Photoshop fail, and China defies the media trends.
Is Google’s brand in trouble?
After a decade of near-universal love, is the honeymoon over for Google?
Briefly Business: Octaviar, Allco, Microsoft vs Yahoo
Octaviar boss jumps from role … Allco struggles to find Mobius buyer … BG wants free gas … After deal dies, Yahoo weighs its next move.
