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Yahoo enters Arab market with Maktoob acquisition
News Internet giant unveils plans to buy largest Arabic Web portal, Maktoob.com, as part of company's bid to expand into lucrative Middle Eastern market.
Tags: Web sites, Acquisitions, Online Advertising, Emerging Market, Yahoo Search, U.A.E., Internet, merger, Internet company, Joel D. Pinaroc
App store riches Flash in the pan?
News Adobe hopes Flash's multiple platform support will attract mobile developers eyeing app store monetization, but it's no foolproof plan, notes analyst.
Tags: Development/design, Software engineering/development, Adobe Systems Inc., Ovum, App, Smart Phone, Rich Media, Developer, analyst, Internet company
Yahoo seeks wider Philippine footprint
News Seemingly unaffected by company's planned job cuts, Yahoo's Philippine office unveils branding initiative with cyber cafés in bid to increase local presence.
Tags: Web sites, Internet advertising, Internet, Asia, Branding, Philippines, Yahoo! Inc., software, Emerging Market, Internet
Yahoo's Bartz: We 'somehow got boring'
News The company is trying hard to right its ship, and will try to convince analysts that it is a rightful player in future of the Internet.
Tags: Web sites, Yahoo! Inc., Internet technology company, Microsoft Corp., CEO, Web sites, Stock, technology company, financial, senior vice president
Shift in Philippine telco space
Blogs Last week was quite eventful for the Philippine telecom sector when two of the country's biggest telephone operators rev...
Flipping through Facebook's privacy flap
Blogs The furore over Facebook's change (and reverting) of its user terms illustrates a few points about Internet companies. ...
A trip to the innovation Valley
Blogs This blog turned one this September and I'd like to believe that there are Filipino readers out there who regularly chec...
Cagayan, my valley home is dear to me
Blogs The title above is the first line of the official anthem of Cagayan, my home province here in the Philippines. I've been...
Yahoo discontinues Vista-optimized IM program
News Yahoo Messenger for Vista was one of the few consumer applications designed to run only on the latest version of Windows.
Tags: Windows Vista, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Yahoo IM, Microsoft Windows XP, IM, News.com, Microsoft Windows, CNET Networks Inc., Internet company
Energy-aware Internet routing coming soon
News Researchers say they have developed routing algorithm that can help big Internet companies reduce their energy bills by millions of dollars.
Tags: Green IT, Energy, Cisco Systems Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc., Energy Usage, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Carnegie-Mellon University, networking company, researcher, Internet
Baidu CEO touts growth of China's search engine
News Robin Li tells Stanford students to embrace tough decisions when running a startup, in discussion that centered on entrepreneurship in the tough Chinese market.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Search, Palo Alto, venture capital, Baidu.com Inc., Search Result, China, Internet, Internet company
Google data liberation project adds Docs, Sites
News Google says it wants to make it easy for users to export their data in hopes of satisfying customers, as well as critics who contend it has too much power.
Tags: Data Management, Databases, User Data, business strategy, Facebook, Silicon Valley, Internet, Google Docs, Internet company, incentive
Google, Yahoo to appear before US Congress on ad data
News Facebook will join the two search leaders and privacy advocates to explain to U.S. Congress how they collect and protect data gathered as part of behavioral advertising.
Tags: Politics, Data security, Internet Advertising, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Princeton University, Advertisement, U.S. House of Representatives, Internet, U.S. Congress
Yahoo's delicate dance in Vietnam
News Search firm is expanding in the Asian country but is taking pains to avoid being drawn into government efforts to curb citizens' use of the Web.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Government, Vietnam, Borders Books & Music, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Singapore, Berkman Center, China
Yahoo's Microsoft tab totaled US$79 million
News Yahoo ran up a double-digit multimillion dollar tab last year, paying outside advisers US$79 million in its efforts to fend off Microsoft, according to an SEC filing.
Tags: Lawsuits, Acquisitions, Microsoft Corp., Autodesk Inc., Yahoo! Inc., antitrust, SEC, Jerry Yang, shareholder, advisor
