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MSN Debuts Online Health Service

in News on October 1, 2009 at 12:20 am PT

MSN, Microsoft’s online portal, released a beta version of a service to let users manage their health information on the Web. Called My Health Info, the Microsoft offering, which includes a range of widgets and other Web tools, wades into an area that many are attempting to crack, including Google.
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Yahoo Confirms Xoopit Purchase

in News on July 22, 2009 at 5:44 pm PT

Yahoo confirmed the news–first reported by BoomTown and in The Wall Street Journal last night–that it was buying Xoopit, the San Francisco social email company. And it did so in both a blog post and on Twitter, as you can see here: @karaswisher @jvascellaro Your scoops confirmed http://bit.ly/gpOT2. Well, thanks! But we are already onto new scoops, so try to keep up! The price for the acquisition, which Yahoo did not reveal, was about $20 million, according to sources.
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Yahoo Finally Rolls Out New Homepage to the Masses–and, Drum Roll, It's Good (Plus Screenshots)

in News on July 20, 2009 at 6:00 pm PT

Although it’s not news that Yahoo was readying a new version of its homepage and has spent a lot of time doing so–in fact, it’s gone all Handy Manny with a whole lot of test renovations–the Internet giant begins the massive rollout of it tomorrow. The official launch of what was code-named “Metro,” which Yahoo had previously said was coming in the fall, will take place on an opt-in “beta” basis for the hundreds of millions of users in the U.S. and will be extended to France, the U.K. and India later this week. The change is an important one for Yahoo, since its front page–one of the most trafficked on the Web–is perhaps its most powerful calling card to users and advertisers, as well as to Wall Street. Here are the details and also an interview about it all with Yahoo SVP Tapan Bhat, as well as screenshots of the new page.
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A Look-See at Yahoo's New Open and Social Launch!

in News on December 16, 2008 at 2:04 pm PT

Yesterday, Yahoo held a San Francisco event where it finally launched a lot of the new open and social elements that it has long said it was injecting into its most popular products. (BoomTown also interviewed top Yahoo execs Tapan Bhat and Ash Patel about the moves.) For a look-see, here is an official Yahoo video about the launch and some screenshots of the changes.