Microsoft’s Bing search service is looking ever likely to surpass Yahoo in search traffic in the U.S. in the coming months, new data from comScore reveals.
Accoriding to comScore, Microsoft’s Bing got a 15 percent market share in the U.S. in terms of search traffic last month.
Yahoo, on the other hand, had a share of 15.1 percent.
Bing managed to increase its search query traffic in November by 0.2 of a percentage point over its market share of 14.8 percent in October.
Meanwhile, Yahoo …

Blackstone Group, the U.S. based investment and advisory firm, and Bain will head an effort to bid for all of Yahoo Inc. after partnering with Alibaba, the Chinese owned internet company.
 
Sources with knowledge of the issue on Wednesday said Bain and Blackstone are very interested in purchasing the central part of Yahoo’s U.S. operations, noting that the group of companies that will be involved has not been formalized but will include Japan’s Softbank Inc.  Blackstone, Bain, and …

Microsoft will be present during negotiations if Yahoo decides to sell itself whole, or parts of its business, a report from The Associated Press reveals.
According to the news organization, Microsoft inked a deal with Yahoo just for this purpose.
Citing an unnamed person familiar with the Microsoft-Yahoo deal, the AP says that “To gain better access, Microsoft Corp. has signed a nondisclosure agreement with Yahoo Inc.”
The AP says its source has requested not to be named because …

AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo announced on Tuesday that they have forged an advertising partnership as the companies try to wrest some market share away from Google and Facebook.

AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo Forge Ad Deal

As part of the deal, each company will be able to sell the other’s leftover premium ad inventory.
The deal will take into effect on January, the companies said.
These premium ads are display ads which command higher prices from advertisers due to their better and catchy placements …

Sunnyvale, California-based Web company Yahoo has unveiled some new multimedia applications for tablet PCs and smartphone users, reports Reuters. The web company, which is struggling for the past some time in its business and is currently evaluating its future, demonstrated new technologies to attract third-party publishers and advertisers to a new Apple Inc iPad-based media service.
“Innovation in this space is happening on mobile devices first, and it’s closest to users and that’s where …

Google, the world’s top Internet search provider and advertising broker, has pulled off another dominant presence in the online search market share, gradually leaving rivals Microsoft and Yahoo behind.
According to Bloomberg, research firm comScore reported that Google’s share in the US added 0.5 points to pull together 65.3 percent of the online search market in September.
Yahoo remained second despite falling 0.8 points to 15.5 percent while Microsoft’s Bing Search still clings on to …

In a move reminiscent of its failed deal in 2008, Microsoft is said to be considering acquiring Yahoo, a report from Reuters reveals.

Microsoft is again eyeing Yahoo. Image: labanex / Flickr (CC)

In an exclusive report, Reuters says that “sources close to the situation” disclosed to the news organization on Wednesday of the Microsoft plans to acquire Yahoo.
Yahoo has been recently reported to be readying itself for an acquisition with the company preparing pitching to potential buyers why …

Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd  together with the Russian investment fund Digital Sky Technologies (DST) and private investment fund Silver Lake  is discussing the possibility of filing a joint bid to acquire the U.S. search giant Yahoo!, reports Bloomberg citing informed sources.
The group has already contacted the Yahoo! management, as well as company advisors on this matter, to inform about the potential offer. At the same time, the source of the publication noted that …

Jack Ma, chief executive officer of the Alibaba Group, became the first party to publicly express interest in buying Yahoo when he talked about the struggling internet company while onstage at the China 2.0 conference at Stanford University.
 

Jack Ma "very interested" in buying Yahoo

Mr. Ma said: “We are very interested” in reply to a questioner who asked if Alibaba was considering buying Yahoo.  Ma’s statement confirmed what had already been reported; that Alibaba, …

Yahoo, based in Sunnyvale, California, has just re-launched a new Photo Session feature for Flickr that lets users in different locations browse pictures simultaneously.
 

Yahoo launches "Photo Session" for Flickr

The change comes amid a tumultuous time for Yahoo – the company has been struggling to maintain its position as one of the top internet companies, and just last month fired its controversial CEO Carol Bartz.  Earlier this month Yahoo employees were told in a …