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Yahoo: Wanna be a Social Media Producer?

Published by: yuga under: Yahoo. 16 replies

posted: October 19th, 2009

Yahoo! is setting the bar for who is qualified to be called a Social Media Expert and they’re putting a figure on the number of connections you need to have. Check out the list below if you qualify.

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Unlimited GMail and Yahoo! Mail with Smart

Published by: yuga under: Gooooogle , Telecoms , Yahoo. 19 replies

posted: October 4th, 2009

Smart partnered with Nokia to offer unlimited email access via Nokia Messaging for only Php299 a month. The push messaging service will include GMail, Yahoo! Mail, Ovi Mail and HotMail.

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Yahoo! Philippines gets a new GM

Published by: yuga under: Yahoo. 9 replies

posted: August 27th, 2009

Yahoo! officially announced this week that they have a new General Manager for the Philippines in the name of Jack Madrid, replacing former GM Jojo Anonuevo.

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Bing wins in Yahoo+Microsoft Search Deal

Published by: yuga under: Microsoft , Search , Yahoo. 19 replies

posted: July 30th, 2009

Bing gets another big score with the recently announced search deal between Microsoft and Yahoo! Microsoft will now power Yahoo! search while Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers.

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Do you like the new Yahoo! look?

Published by: yuga under: Yahoo. 31 replies

posted: July 22nd, 2009

Yahoo! finally showed us their new portal re-design and this time, it’s allowing users to somewhat customize the sections of the homepage.

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Yahoo Philippines kicks off Purple Hunt

Published by: yuga under: Yahoo. 19 replies

posted: May 27th, 2009

Yesterday, Yahoo! Philippines launched the “Project Purple” — a social movement that ties Yahoo’s online services to promote creativity, free expression and innovation.

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RIP: Geocities, 1995-2009

Published by: yuga under: The Internet , Yahoo. 36 replies

posted: April 24th, 2009

Yahoo has finally decided to shut down its long-time free-hosting service, Geocities. It was 10 years ago that Yahoo acquired Geocities for a huge sum of $3.57 billion.

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Yahoo! and Skype App on the iPhone

Published by: yuga under: Freewares , Yahoo. 12 replies

posted: April 2nd, 2009

Two top-notch apps are now available on the iPhone App Store — the Yahoo! App and the Skype App are ready for download to your iPhone for free.

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Numbers behind Yahoo!-Nielsen “Net Index”

Published by: yuga under: Yahoo. 16 replies

posted: March 29th, 2009

Last week, Yahoo! Philippines and Nielsen Online revealed results of their research on “internet habits” for the Philippines. Their study also confirms the dominance of Yahoo! properties in the country which includes email, instant messaging and surprisingly even search.

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What’s Cooking with Yahoo!

Published by: yuga under: Yahoo. 10 replies

posted: February 12th, 2009

Yahoo! Philippines yesterday presented several milestones they achieved will all the campaigns they did in the country from last year. Wasn’t able to make it on the presentation part but here’s some bullet-points they sent over today including announcement of 5,000 net cafes in their Yahoo! iCafe program.

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Yahoo! gets new CEO

Published by: yuga under: Yahoo. 5 replies

posted: January 14th, 2009

Just got the official press release from Yahoo! about the recent reshuffling in top management, including a new Chief Executive Officer.

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Top Searches of 2008 on Yahoo! Philippines

Published by: yuga under: Yahoo. 14 replies

posted: December 18th, 2008

Yahoo! Philippines sent in a report for their 2008 Top Searches on the main portal Yahoo.com.ph. The results are as expected but still interesting — gives us a glimpse of what regular Filipino surfers as interested in.

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Firefox runs to Yahoo for help?

Published by: yuga under: Freewares , Yahoo. 12 replies

posted: September 19th, 2008

After Google officially abandoned Firefox in favor of its own branded Chrome browser, it looks like Mozilla sought the help of Yahoo to continue to promote its open source browser.

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Could Yahoo! Buzz get bigger than Digg?

Published by: yuga under: Web 2.0 , Yahoo. 8 replies

posted: August 22nd, 2008

While some would already say that Yahoo! Buzz has already proven itself to bring more massive amounts of traffic to publishers, this has only been felt by a select few. This week though, Yahoo! Buzz was opened to the public and it made a bigger promise Digg never accomplished.

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Free trip to Yahoo! Open Hack Day in California

Published by: yuga under: Events , Yahoo. 5 replies

posted: August 21st, 2008

Yahoo! Philippines is serious about promoting web development and technology innovation in the country that it has sponsored quite a number of efforts locally — from University Hack Days, Yahoo! Developers Network to BarCamp Manila.

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Globe tops Yahoo! oneSearch usage in Southeast Asia

Published by: yuga under: Telecoms , Yahoo. 3 replies

posted: July 26th, 2008

Globe Telecom is the top Yahoo! oneSearch partner in Southeast Asia, based on number of unique page views per day using the mobile search engine.

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Yahoo! BOSS: Build your Own Search Service

Published by: yuga under: Search , Yahoo. 5 replies

posted: July 12th, 2008

Yesterday, Yahoo! made an ambitious attempt and opened up their search service to everyone. Called Yahoo! Search BOSS, this initiative is strategy to attract developers to create their own search service on top of Yahoo’s search technology.

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Want some YMail or RocketMail accounts?

Published by: yuga under: Freewares , Yahoo. 16 replies

posted: June 24th, 2008

Two new email domains went up for public use by Yahoo!Mail users a couple days ago – YMail.com and RocketMail.com. Okay, so RocketMail isn’t new. It’s an old email service that’s just been raised from the dead. Main reason?

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The Yahoo! Exodus has just began

Published by: yuga under: Yahoo. 10 replies

posted: June 20th, 2008

For a large global company such as Yahoo!, people hardly notice employees come and go. But if you see a very long list of executives going out the door at this rate, now that’s a cause for concern. Just check out how many bigwigs have left Yahoo this year alone:

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Yahoo: Now Serving Better Ads… by Google

Published by: yuga under: AdSense , Gooooogle , Yahoo. 2 replies

posted: June 13th, 2008

Yahoo! and Google today announced a non-exclusive AdSense for Search and AdSense for Content agreement. Omid Kordestani, Senior VP, Global Sales and Business Development spend a lot of time explaining on their blog what this deal is not about.

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