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19 min ago | Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Will Yahoo Kill the TV Remote?

It looks like the smartphone may be sounding the death knell for the ubiquitous TV remote, judging by Yahoo's new open source platform announced at its recent developer event.

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Related Topix: Startups, Canaan Partners, Dapper, Citizen Sports, Bessemer Venture Partners, Koprol

1 hr ago | Fortune

Exclusive: Sequoia Capital raising new funds

Sequoia Capital, the venture capital firm behind such companies as Google andA and Yahoo ,A is back in the fund-raising market, with a series of vehicles designed to raise at least $1 billion .

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Related Topix: Venture Capital, Emerging Technology, Sequoia Capital, Startups, Google, Search Engines

2 hrs ago | Ad Operations Online

Genome from Yahoo!: a New Solution Capitalizing on Yahoo!'s...

A At Internet Week New York, Yahoo! , the premier digital media company, announced Genome from Yahoo! , an online advertising solution that combines Yahoo! data with interclick's third party data and advertisers' first party data along with a premium media footprint to provide marketers with the most complete, custom audience solution in the ... (more)

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Related Topix: Startups, Canaan Partners, Dapper, Citizen Sports, Bessemer Venture Partners, Koprol

2 hrs ago | Business Journal

Yahoo pulls plug on Livestand iPad app

Apple on Thursday said it will let employees collect the company's new $2.65 quarterly dividend on restricted stock, but CEO Tim Cook isn't taking advantage of the potential windfall.

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Related Topix: Startups, Canaan Partners, Koprol, Dapper, Citizen Sports, Bessemer Venture Partners

6 hrs ago | Geeksugar

Plan Summer Itineraries With a Time Traveler

Ready for Summer travels is the recently released Yahoo! TimeTraveler , a free app that offers guided tours in 29 different cities, including London, New York, San Francisco, and Paris, among others.

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Related Topix: Startups, Dapper, Citizen Sports, Travel, United Kingdom Travel, London, United Kingdom Travel, us Travel, Los Angeles Travel, San Francisco, CA

Mon May 28, 2012

AdExchanger.com

Report: Amazon Eyes Mobile Ad Networks; Facebook Device Strategy; Levinsohn's Yahoo Roadmap

With reports continuing to swirl of Amazon building a significant display advertising business, Kunur Patel says in Ad Age that the acquisition of a mobile ad network may be next.

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Related Topix: Startups, Social Software, Jumptap, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, iPhone, Marketing

The Huffington Post

Maneet Ahuja: Corporate Raiders or Corporate Redeemers?

Long derided as "corporate raiders" only interested in making a fast buck often to the long-term detriment of their target companies, some recent successful activist investor campaigns have done much to rightfully disprove this long-held misconception.

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Related Topix: Startups

Seeking Alpha

AOL: The Internet Momentum Play

Shares of the once online industry leader AOL Inc have nearly doubled over the past six months.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Amazon

WKBT

Yahoo launches Axis 'search browser'

Yahoo has joined the browser wars with Axis, its very own tool designed to enhance its search with a clear eye toward the rapidly expanding mobile Web.

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Related Topix: Startups, Ipad, iPod touch App, Science / Technology, iPad App, Pinterest, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Apple, iPhone, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

Total Telecom

Yahoo kills reading tool led by departed executive

Yahoo Inc. said Friday it has decided to discontinue its Livestand digital news reading application, which had been unveiled to much fanfare following a delay in November.

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Related Topix: Startups, Science / Technology, Ipad, Apple

Al Bawaba

Yahoo! acquires license to Yamli's technology to power services

Yahoo! announced today that it has acquired a license to Yamli's transliteration technology, to be integrated across a number of its products and services.

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Related Topix: Startups, Habib Haddad

Sun May 27, 2012

Yahoo!

Kabul market

Scary isn't it. The worms at Yahoo are hard at work. Yes, they live and breathe and are among us - AND they reproduce.

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Related Topix: Startups

Reuters

Asia Private Equity Weekly News, May 28, 2012

YUANTA FINANCIAL has pulled out of talks on a deal worth up to $1.25 billion to buy Carlyle Group-backed Taiwanese bank Ta Chong, dealing a blow to the private equity fund's hope to exit its Taiwan investment for a profit.

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Related Topix: Internet, Science / Technology, Startups

NorthJersey.com

Yahoo looks to restore fizz with browser upgrade device

Joining the battle to redefine the Internet search, Yahoo is taking aim with a new browser enhancement it calls Axis.

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Related Topix: Startups, Facebook, iPod touch App, iPad App, Twitter, Google+, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Ipad, Science / Technology, iPhone

Sat May 26, 2012

The Hamilton Spectator

The week in tech: 5 must-know things

The app, which is strikingly similar to the recently purchased Instagram, allows users to take, edit and upload photos directly to Facebook.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Dapper, Citizen Sports

Daily Times

Priscilla Chan's ruby ring may be valuable after all

Billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, 28, is getting a lot of flack for being cheap with his new bride.

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Related Topix: Startups, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg

ProgrammableWeb.com

18 APIs Used in 7 Days: Yahoo, Thrutu and Forvo

This past week 10 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 18 different APIs were used to build them.

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Related Topix: Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Google, Widevine Technologies

Internet Retailer

Alibaba.com's shareholders vote to take the company private

Minority shareholders of Alibaba.com Ltd. today voted in favor of taking the China-based e-commerce operator private, the company announced.

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Related Topix: Alibaba, Startups, Science / Technology, Internet

Freshnews

BUTTERFINGERA Builds World's Most Extravagant News Van, Reveals...

Built to collect evidence, the BBNN news van features state-of-the-art news equipment and never-before-seen devices with potentially supernatural capabilities.

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Related Topix: IGN Entertainment, Fox Interactive Media, Life, Food, Candy, Manhattan, KS, Startups, Dapper

Fri May 25, 2012

Seeking Alpha

7 Stock Picks By A Pro: I Like Yahoo And Oracle

Paul Tudor Jones was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and went to college there before attending Memphis University School for high school.

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Related Topix: Startups, Oracle Corporation, University of Virginia, Financial Markets, us Travel, Travel

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