Yahoo Open Strategy is not open enough
news.cnet.com 12/17/2008 — Yahoo has been looking for ways to differentiate itself from Google and online rivals like Facebook and MySpace. Until now, it has largely been reactive, losing search market share to Google, as well as community market share to Facebook and others. ...

We’re open. Have at it.
ycorpblog.com 10/28/2008 — Back in April, we rolled out our vision for a more open Yahoo! — with “open” defined as rewiring Yahoo! so we could 1) open our network to outside innovation, 2) unlock the power of your social relationships, and 3) mesh your Yahoo! experience ...

After Yang, What Should Yahoo Do? [GigaOM]
gigaom.com 11/18/2008 — Jerry Yang, after a tumultuous reign as the chief executive officer of Yahoo(s YHOO), the company he co-founded with David Filo, announced today that he is stepping down from the top slot. The news was first reported by Kara Swisher and later ...

Yahoo! Inc. - Press Release
yhoo.client.shareholder.com 11/13/2008 — Yahoo! Breaks Audience Record and Wins 2008 Election! Consumers Make Yahoo! the #1 Destination for Major Events According to comScore Media Metrix SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov 13, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) today released new comScore ...

Yahoo! Inc. - Press Release
yhoo.client.shareholder.com 12/15/2008 — Yahoo! Mail - Announced separately today, Yahoo! Mail's smarter inbox focuses on streamlining access to a user's most relevant and useful information. The new Welcome Page surfaces email messages, information and activity from people users care about ...

What Yahoo Must Do to Survive
readwriteweb.com 1/1/2009 — Internet search and advertising giant Yahoo! has been a household name almost from its inception in March of 1995. During the dot-com bubble, Yahoo! shares sold at a record $118.75 a share. Thirteen years later, Stanford alumni and Yahoo! co-founder ...

Another Day, Another Questionable Yahoo Story Rocks the Stock
kara.allthingsd.com 12/3/2008 — The stock seesaw for Yahoo–fueled this time by a story in The Wall Street Journal claiming that former AOL CEO Jon Miller was seriously buttonholing private equity firms for money to buy the Internet giant–continues. Yahoo shares ...

Yahoo Opens Up Big Time
techcrunch.com 10/29/2008 — Six months after first announcing its open strategy , Yahoo has released a slew of development tools (like we told you they would) under the Y!OS 1.0 platform. It’s kind of like a Web OS, but Y!OS officially stands for Yahoo Open Strategy. ...

Yahoo suffers down time
inquisitr.com 12/3/2008 — Yahoo experienced downtime this afternoon with reports that the outage affected Yahoo services including Messenger and Yahoo.com. The Yahoo outage occurred at around 12:30pm PST Tuesday for at least 30 minutes possibly longer. Reports were mixed on location, so it may have been localized ...

Yahoo Plans to Launch a Mail App Platform [GigaOM]
gigaom.com 12/8/2008 — Yahoo, the beleaguered web giant, is planning to launch a new program that essentially turns its email offering into a platform on which to run applications, much in the same way Facebook does, according to some of my sources. Yahoo is keeping ...

More CEO Choices for Yahoo: Freston, Jordan, Bonnie and Two Rosenblatts! — Yahoo! Finance: Tech Ticker 11/19/2008
From AllThingsD, Nov. 19, 2008:BoomTown might have been remiss in my post yesterday on top candidates for the Yahoo CEO job, after the news Monday that Jerry Yang is stepping down, by leaving out several key possibilities. Yesterday’s roster includ

Ballmer: "We are done" with Yahoo acquisition idea — CNET News.com 11/19/2008
Speaking at its shareholder meeting, Microsoft's CEO reiterates that Microsoft remains open to some sort of search partnership, but says there are no active discussions in that area.

Microsoft still interested in Yahoo deal — Technology news - CNNMoney.com 11/19/2008
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Yahoo shares plummet nearly 20 percent on Ballmer comments — CNET News.com 11/19/2008
Shares of Yahoo freefall on comments by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer that the software giant is not interested in a Yahoo acquisition.

Ballmer dismisses Yahoo buyout but open on search — SFGate: Technology 11/19/2008
Microsoft Corp. is no longer interested in buying all of Yahoo Inc., CEO Steve Ballmer said Wednesday, though he told shareholders that the company would still be "very open" to a collaboration on Internet search. His comments sent Yahoo shares diving ...