All Posts Tagged With: "Yahoo!"
Yahoo! and Nokia sign partnership
Don’t know how I missed this one being such a Nokia fan.On Tuesday, Nokia and Yahoo! announced that they will soon start embedding in some Nokia phones (6680, 6681, 6630 and the N70) Yahoo! messaging, search and Web browsing software. The deal is targetted initially at Europe:
“We’ll see the fruits of this partnership initially [...]
Tivo partnership with Google or Yahoo! to be announced?
There’s a lot of speculation on the web that TiVo is about to announce a deal with either Yahoo! or Google to allow users to search for video content online and then watch what they’ve found on their TV by downloading or streaming to their TiVo.
Makes sense on some level, since both Yahoo and Google [...]
Yahoo Launches RSS News Site
Yahoo! has launched a brand new news site that you can use to read any RSS feed. Great news I think, as many portals need to remember that they are better at aggregating content not producing it.
15Apr2005 | Everton | 0 comments | ContinuedYahoo! to support Wikipedia
Yahoo Inc.’s search engine division will supply hardware and other resources to the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. to support that nonprofit organization’s free Wikipedia online encyclopedia. Yahoo’s gesture comes with no strings attached.
Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, which I personally think highlights the potential for sharing information on the internet. [...]
Review: Yahoo 360 - "Geocities on steroids rather than a true blogging platform"
Steve Rubel’s review of Yahoo 360 proves again one of my beliefs about the capabilities of portals - they can’t do everything as well as the specialists.
Although in some areas this doesn’t matter, for cutting edge services like blogging I don’t think launching a service that lacks core functionality will fly off the shelves.
HP To Acquire Snapfish
It’s been a busy week for acquisitions in the online photos sector, with Yahoo! announcing the acquisition of Flickr and now HP acquiring Snapfish for an undisclosed amount.
San Francisco-based Snapfish is an independent business unit of District Photo, a massive mail-order film processor with operations in the United States, U.K. and Canada. The company boasts [...]
Yahoo to buy Flickr - Confirmed
Thanks again to Problogger for keeping me up to date with what is happening in the sector.
Flickr is a great little service, and it is good to see that the little guys can still launch services that will be of interest to the big guys.
To read more on the Flickr blog click here
Broadband Genie: Phil Wilkinson is back!
Phil Wilkinson, internet entrepreneur, fresh from picking up his proceeds from the sale of Kelkoo to Yahoo (Phil setup Kelkoo UK) has re-entered the market with Broadband Genie.
Broadband genie compares products and prices for all the main broadband UK providers to help users make sense out of this confusing marketplace. All users have to do [...]

