What do you do with the $1.65 billion you earned after Google bought your site? Well, YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have a simple answer: buy other businesses.

Yahoo, on Wednesday, sold the previously doomed social bookmarking site Delicious to Hurley and Chen, reports confirm.
Yahoo was set to retire the Delicious service along with seven other services, the struggling company said to All Things Digital late last year.
However, with its new owners promising to nourish and …

More than any other website, users/web surfers in the United States visited Yahoo. Even though yahoo’s current positions are a bit bleak in regard to other competitions in the search engine market, this along with comScore corrected results are a bit of a good news for the company.

comScore Popular Sites – Mar 2011

According to comScore, more than 212 million US visitors came to Yahoo.com in March, with more than 180 million visits among them, being unique. Google trailed Yahoo …

In a major shift of policy, Yahoo has announced that it will start to retain user data and usage logs for longer periods to facilitate their personalized search results system.
Privacy laws, activists and organisations have been hammering upon Internet Service Providers and search companies for a long time to reduce their data retention time and have been trying to enforce laws in this regard. But the companies have been ever elusive of talking with the authorities to reach a consensus.

Yahoo …

Bing Yahoo Search Engine

In even more bad news for Yahoo after their recent issues, its search engine market share has come down moderately from February 2011 to March 2011 according to the web statistics company comScore.
After collaborating with Microsoft’s Bing search engine, Yahoo has seen consistent dip in the usage in its major markets and on the other hand saw marginal and improved growth in developing markets like India. Yahoo has hence forth concentrated its search engine …

The online game developer Zynga Game Network has bagged Yahoo and Cisco executives, in one of the high profile job hiring of this year.
Zynga had become a phenomenon after its games on Facebook started to get huge number of followers and monthly players. Some of Zynga’s games feature over 80 million players.
Cityville and Farmville are the top attractions that Zynga offers to players. In fact, Zynga is a beneficiary of the Slashdot effect from Facebook.com traffic.
Now, Zynga has started …

We have been covering about the case against Yahoo! Italia in the 9th Division of the Court of Rome filed by PFA Films for the Iranian director Ashgar Farhadi when Yahoo linked to a site providing pirated versions of his film “About Elly”.
In case you have missed it, check out the following pages and get a hold of how the situation developed:
Yahoo guilty of linking to pirated content on its search index?
Yahoo expresses unhappiness over Italian court’s ruling
Now, in the …

After and Iranian movie right owners filed a complain about Yahoo! for linking to pirated copies of the film in its search index in an Italian court, Yahoo is now decisively unhappy about the court’s ruling. In case you haven’t read the original story, go to our coverage of the Case against Yahoo in Italian court by Iranian movie producers.

Yahoo guilty of indexing pirated content – 9th Division of the Court of Rome

The movie in question was ‘About Elly’, …

Prince William (L) and fiancee Kate Middleton – Courtesy – AFP

After popularity of the topic hit the sky and more and more began searching for news related to it, Yahoo! has devoted an entire website on a sub domain for the royal wedding of Prince Williams and Kate Middleton. The high profile marriage is scheduled on April 29th at the Westminster Abbey.
Yahoo! officials said that this effort from their side was to streamline the search and visitors onto the page so that quality …

Facebook has released a new version of its Question service as a public, limited beta, currently available only in English, after testing it for more than year.  Quora and Yahoo Question and Answers already leads the multitude of websites that provide public answers to public questions but Facebook’s service lets members get answers directly from friends.  Current testers will be the first to get access to the new Questions feature, and this will automatically be given to their friends as …

It seems that Yahoo is now in a twist of Italian laws after Google did some time with Italian laws for publishing a video on YouTube of 3 boys bullying an autistic child.

Yahoo Guilty?

Yes, it seems that after a copyright infringement claim by the publishers of the an Iranian film “About Elly”, a court had found that Yahoo might be party to the violation.Just linking to the site with the pirated content has seemed to put Yahoo in this spot.
Yahoo is in fact a difficult position, …