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Yahoo Revenues Off 15 Percent, CEO Mayer Announces Restructuring Plan

Company will cut 15 percent of workers, simplify offerings for users and...

Greg Sterling | Feb 2, 2016 at 6:11 pm ET

Sheryl Sandberg & Katie Couric On Thriving Amidst Seismic Platform Shifts

It’s a mobile world, and both Katie Couric and Sheryl Sandberg are doing their best to help their companies adapt. Couric and Sandberg, two of...

Martin Beck | Sep 29, 2014 at 1:35 pm ET

Confirmed: Katie Couric To Become “Face Of Yahoo News”

Though it was widely reported last week, this morning Yahoo confirmed that Katie Couric would join the company as “Global Anchor.”...

Greg Sterling | Nov 25, 2013 at 12:24 pm ET

Report: Katie Couric Exits $40 Million Deal With ABC For Yahoo

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is raiding the world of traditional media to build a roster of top talent to add prestige and new (video) content to the...

Greg Sterling | Nov 22, 2013 at 6:16 pm ET

NY Times Loses Star Tech Writer Pogue To Yahoo

Yahoo has apparently lured star tech journalist David Pogue away from the NY Times. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer posted the news on Tumblr this...

Greg Sterling | Oct 21, 2013 at 11:36 am ET

The New Yahoo News, Now With More Homepage

Earlier today Yahoo announced a newly redesigned Yahoo News site. Graphics are larger and there’s more white space at the article level....

Greg Sterling | Jun 27, 2013 at 6:03 pm ET

Yahoo & Twitter Bring Real-Time Tweets To Yahoo’s Newsfeed

Yahoo announced a partnership with Twitter today to include real-time tweets from media outlets, politicians and celebrities in the Yahoo...

Ginny Marvin | May 16, 2013 at 3:24 pm ET

New Yahoo Stream Ads Fit Right In Line With The New Yahoo Experience

After launching the new Yahoo news stream experience in February, the company announced their newest advertising format today, Yahoo Stream Ads....

Amy Gesenhues | Apr 29, 2013 at 8:30 pm ET

Yahoo Narrows Focus By Cutting Yahoo Kids, Upcoming, Yahoo Deals & More

Yahoo announced today that it is retiring five of its products at the end of this month, including Upcoming, Yahoo Kids and Yahoo Deals. Older...

Amy Gesenhues | Apr 19, 2013 at 6:23 pm ET

EMarketer: Yahoo Ad Revenue Is Growing, But Google Still Owns The Marketshare

For the first time in several years, Yahoo saw their net US ad revenue grow in 2012, reaching $3.18 billion. eMarketer forecasts this upward...

Amy Gesenhues | Apr 1, 2013 at 8:00 am ET

Yahoo! Expanding Dublin Operations & New York Data Center

Yahoo! announced expansion plans to their Dublin, Ireland operations center and their data and customer care facility located in Lockport, New...

Amy Gesenhues | Mar 22, 2013 at 4:42 pm ET

State Of The News Media: Everything In Decline But Digital

The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s has served up its annual and comprehensive “State of the News...

Greg Sterling | Mar 18, 2013 at 1:43 pm ET

More “Modern” Yahoo Homepage Starts To Roll Out

We’ve known for quite some time that Yahoo was preparing to relaunch its homepage. We saw early evidence several months ago in screenshots...

Greg Sterling | Feb 20, 2013 at 9:39 am ET

Older Yahoo Product Strategy Memo Appears To Inform CEO Mayer’s Current Vision

Kara Swisher at AllThingsD, the prodigious leaker of Yahoo internal memos, has released former Chief Product Officer Blake Irving’s...

Greg Sterling | Sep 28, 2012 at 11:20 am ET

Yahoo! Web Analytics To Be Discontinued

Yahoo! announced this week that it will be discontinuing Yahoo! Web Analytics as a stand alone product. We inquired Emer Kirrane, Product...

Daniel Waisberg | Jun 15, 2012 at 5:02 am ET

Facebook Trumpets Its 320 Million Monthly Mobile Apps Visits

Facebook wants everyone to know just how big and successful its mobile platform has become in a short period of time. In short: Very big. And...

Matt McGee | Feb 24, 2012 at 1:58 pm ET

21 Percent Of Ads On News Sites Are House Ads: Pew Study

Online news sites are struggling to get advertisers to move from their traditional platforms to online outlets. One of the effects of that,...

Matt McGee | Feb 13, 2012 at 3:17 pm ET

Yahoo Lifts The Curtain On Its Home Page Content Algorithm, C.O.R.E.

Yahoo has launched a new visualization tool that offers some insights into how it chooses what content to show on the Yahoo home page and other...

Matt McGee | Feb 9, 2012 at 8:00 pm ET

Yahoo Expands Facebook Integration To 26 More Sites

Based on the success of its initial integration with Facebook’s Open Graph, Yahoo is going all-in by expanding the integration to 26 more...

Matt McGee | Dec 21, 2011 at 4:19 pm ET