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Yahoo Opens Its Open Strategy With Mail, Toolbar, My Yahoo and Media

in News on December 15, 2008 at 12:19 pm PT

After a week of bleeding purple, a heavily bandaged Yahoo has regrouped to roll out its vaunted Open Strategy. At an event in San Francisco today, the company introduced “socialized” upgrades to Yahoo Mail, Toolbar, My Yahoo, Yahoo TV and Yahoo Music. Each service now features social enhancements that essentially transform the experience of using them into one more akin to social networking.

Yahoo: We Try Harder?

in News on June 6, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Looks like Yahoo CFO Susan Decker was ahead of her time when, in January 2006, she more or less conceded the battle for search market share to Google. “We don’t think it’s reasonable to assume we’re going to gain a lot of share from Google,” she told Bloomberg. “It’s not our goal to be No. [...]