Yahoo on Thursday introduced a new service for its search engine called AppSearch and also announced new search tools for Android and iPhone devices call AppSpot. Both AppSearch and AppSpot help users find applications for their iPhone and Android devices, and Yahoo said it will expand their functionality in the future.

Shashi Seth, explaining why Yahoo has introduced the new features, said it can do better job than is provided by the search tools for the Apple App Store and Android Market. …

Yahoo Mail and Hotmail have become the newest targets of a spear phishing attack which aims to steal the login names and passwords of members in order to stage later attacks.

Trend Micro reported on Friday that the phishing attacks on Yahoo Mail and Hotmail were carried out separately from initial attacks on Gmail.  Google revealed on Wednesday that hundreds of Gmail accounts were compromised in attacks that originated from servers in China, although Chinese officials said they are not …

Yahoo!Mail, which is available in 43 markets and 26 languages around the world, introduced a beta upgrade to its email service in October, and has now launched the final version today. Yahoo!Mail boasts 284 million users.

Blake Irving, chief product officer for Yahoo, summarized the Yahoo!Mail upgrade this way: “Yahoo’s vision for online communications brings together all the tools that people use to connect – email, chat, SMS, and social updates – and makes it easier for them to …

Yahoo is all set to launch the latest version of its e-mail service. The company will ask all its 284 million users to upgrade their email service, reports PCWorld.
The latest version is said to have incorporated offerings for several social media including Facebook and Twitter. New themes have been incorporated in the inbox. The test version of the new mail service was unveiled last year.
 
With the new service, Yahoo expects to revive its user engagement. The user engagement, which …

Chief Product Development Manager for  Yahoo Inc. said during a visit to Beijing that the company is expanding its Research and Development operations in the world’s second biggest economy, despite escalating tensions between Yahoo and that country’s biggest e-commerce website, Alibaba Group Holding, Ltd.

Mr. Irving said that Yahoo’s R&D center in China currently has hundreds of employees, added 100 staff last year, and plans to continue increasing staff at a similar rate this …

Jack Ma, chairman of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., spoke in Hong Kong about the spinoff of the Alipay online payment business, stressing that his company is always committed to making sure its operations are 100 percent lawful.  Ma said the spinoff was “lawful” and “transparent”, although “the matter of Alipay is not settled yet.”

Yahoo!Inc, the biggest web portal in the United States, and the largest shareholder in Alibaba Group Holding, Ltd. at 43 percent, said it was not …

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 …

Due to lag and delay in the acquisition of certain critical technology for improvisation of their search based advertising system, Yahoo has incurred some loss of earnings in the first three months of financial year 2011-2012.

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The fall in profits was 28 per cent as Yahoo failed to make last year’s first three months profit of $310 million. The profit for the same period this year was just $223 million.
The quarterly earnings was however higher than expectations of analysts and …

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.

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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 …