Local News: Ashburn, VA 

 | 

Sign Up

 | 

Sign In

Yahoo! News Editors

News Widget

Display the Yahoo! news headlines on your website.

Get the Topix Headlines Widget

Share & bookmark

RSS icon mobile icon

Yahoo! News

News on Yahoo! (Ticker: YHOO) continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.

1 hr ago | Editor & Publisher

Tribune Digital Ventures Appoints President

Tribune Co. has appointed digital and Internet veteran Shashi Seth as president of Tribune Digital Ventures, a newly-formed unit of the company that will create, design, and develop new digital products and businesses that leverage Tribune's strength in local content and data, and extend the reach of its distribution platform.

Comment?

Related Topix: Startups, Dapper, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

Fri May 24, 2013

Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Who's Joining the Battle For Hulu?

The list of bidders for internet TV provider Hulu LLC continues to grow, with Yahoo , KKR & Co .

Comment?

Related Topix: Media, Fox Filmed Entertainment, hulu, Startups, Canaan Partners, Citizen Sports, Bessemer Venture Partners

Watersblogged

Yahoo Has Submitted A Bid To Buy Hulu

Yahoo isn't alone in its interest in Hulu. KKR and Silver Lake are interested in Hulu, as well, Bloomberg reports .

Comment?

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

The Campbell Reporter

Biz Break: Are Google and Yahoo about to make big purchases?

Today: As rumors fly that Google is entering a bidding war with Facebook over traffic mapping app Waze, new reports surface that Yahoo has entered bidding for streaming video service Hulu.

Comment?

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

Contra Costa Times

Biz Break: Are Google and Yahoo about to make big purchases?

Today: As rumors fly that Google is entering a bidding war with Facebook over traffic mapping app Waze, new reports surface that Yahoo has entered bidding for streaming video service Hulu.

Comment?

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

AmericanBankingNews.com

Yahoo!'s Buy Rating Reaffirmed at TheStreet

's stock had its "buy" rating reaffirmed by research analysts at TheStreet in a report released on Friday, Analyst Ratings Network.com reports.

Comment?

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

Reuters

Yahoo joins growing list of bidders for Hulu: sources

Yahoo Inc has submitted a formal proposal to buy Hulu, joining a growing list of bidders for the video service owned by News Corp and Walt Disney Co, two sources with knowledge of the bid told Reuters on Friday.

Comment?

Related Topix: Startups

Customer Interaction Solutions

Yahoo acquires PlayerScale

Yahoo!, Inc., an internet and media communications company, has acquired PlayerScale, Inc., a developer of software infrastructure for cross-platform gaming.

Comment?

Related Topix: Startups

Fortune

Automattic nears Tumblr valuation

WordPress.com parent company Automattic today announced a $50 million investment from Tiger Global, in a secondary deal that will provide liquidity to early company shareholders.

Comment?

Related Topix: Startups, Automattic, Dapper, Citizen Sports

TechCrunch

Flickr Suffers Outage Four Days After Major Revamp

Victoria Ho is a TechCrunch writer based in Singapore. She was previously the technology correspondent for The Business Times in Singapore, and senior writer for ZDNet Asia prior to that.

Comment?

Related Topix: Social Software, World News, Indonesia, Startups

SBWire

NASDAQ Active Stock Watch List: Quality Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:QSII)...

Growing Stock Report expands its NASDAQ Active Stock Watch List adding Quality Systems Inc.

Comment?

Related Topix: NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Quality Systems, Software, Startups, Dapper, Koprol

Thu May 23, 2013

Seeking Alpha

Social Network Wars: Analysis Of Long Yahoo, Short Facebook

There is a huge valuation gap between Yahoo and Facebook . Yahoo is now in the social network business with the acquisition of Tumblr, which raises the question of how much of a valuation gap is justified.

Comment?

Related Topix: Startups, Facebook, Social Software, Yahoo! Japan, Google, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

Seeking Alpha

Did Yahoo Underpay For Tumblr?

A media storm ensued following Yahoo's $1.1bn purchase of blogging site Tumbr. As a part of this coverage, analysts and Yahoo management debated the logic behind the purchase, and how it would affect Yahoo's strategy going forward.

Comment?

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

Forbes.com

The Conde Nast Startup Story Yahoo Should Study For Tumblr

's $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr on Monday has been the talk of Internet Week in New York, with many such as venture capitalist Eric Hippeau praising the purchase as a victory for the New York tech community.

Comment?

Related Topix: Startups, Tumblr, Blog News, CBS, Media, Television, Showtime Networks, CNET Networks

All Things Digital

Hearst Taps Demand Media's Bradford and Yucaipa's Johnson to "Redefine" the San Francisco Chronicle

Media giant Hearst has hired two senior execs - Demand Media's Joanne Bradford and former Los Angeles Times CEO Jeffrey Johnson - in a significant move to digitally turbocharge and jumpstart its flagship but long-suffering newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle and its SFGate.com website.

Comment?

Related Topix: Startups, Marketing

MSN Money

Search stocks find favor with investors

If you've been lucky enough to own Internet stocks -- mostly search stocks like Qihoo 360 Technology , Yahoo , Baidu or Google -- of late, then congratulations ... you've made good money.

Comment?

Related Topix: Financial Markets, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Startups, Baidu, Google, Advertising

Insider Monkey

Does Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) Stand a Chance Against Netflix, Inc. (NFLX) and Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO)?

Amazon.com, Inc. , in another round of content deals, is expanding its content licensing agreement with NBC Universal Cable & New Media Distribution according to Zacks Equity Research .

Comment?

Related Topix: Media, Startups, Amazon, Netflix, Walt Disney, Television

Inside Bay Area

New computer mogul, Tumblr founder Karp, has family roots in Marin

Ken Ackerman walks down the front stairs of his mobile home on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Novato, Calif.

Comment?

Related Topix: Tumblr, Novato, CA, Startups, Dapper, Citizen Sports, Facebook

Seeking Alpha

Yahoo LEAPS: Like Stealing Babies From A Candy Store

The philosopher George Santayana once famously remarked that those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Comment?

Related Topix: Startups, Social Software, Flickr, Hunch, eBay, Google

FindLaw

State v. Shields III

Richard Emanuel, with whom, on the brief, was Robert M. Casale, for the appellant .Timothy J. Sugrue, assistant state's attorney, with whom, on the brief, were Maureen Platt, state's attorney, and Terence D. Mariani, senior assistant state's attorney, for the appellee .

Comment?

Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Southbury, CT, Startups

Ashburn Jobs