Yahoo! replaces CEO with co-founder Jerry Yang

Yahoo!’s Chariman and Chief Executive, Terry Semel, is leaving Yahoo! as CEO after joining the company in May 2001.  He is being replacing by co-founder Jerry Yang after investors pressured the company to make changes.  Yahoo’s stock ... Read more »

Internet Explorer 7 optimized for MSN!

Although Yahoo! and Google have already released an “optimized” version of Windows Internet Explorer for their services, MSN has followed suit by releasing a version with it’s line of products and services.  They include: Quick access ... Read more »

Live Search increases US search share by 0.7%

Fresh out of Nielson Netratings is their Februay search share analysis – Live Search increasing from 8.9% in January to 9.6% in February. While it may be too early to start celebrating, it’s the 2nd ... Read more »

Yahoo builds IM into their mail platform

Just picked up on a killer app, coming from Yahoo’s web mail team.  Apparently, Yahoo is now integrating IM into their web mail client.  I haven’t been able to give it a go yet ... Read more »

Yahoo! gets into the Gadget game

Gadgets, one of my favorite Vista features, allow you to customize your Sidebar and desktop with anything from search boxes to a variety of system tools and games.  Microsoft Gadgets, much like Apple’s Dashboard ... Read more »

Google Answers closes, only 800 participants

Straight from the Google blog is the new that Google Answers is closing down, with the acceptance of new questions stop later this week. The surprising admission that they only had about 800 users replying to ... Read more »

Windows Live Messenger Yahoo Interopability releasing tonight

According to the MessengerSays blog, Microsoft will be releasing a new version of Windows Live Messenger including Yahoo interoperability tonight. With the new build, you will be able to add and talk to your ... Read more »

Windows Live interop in Yahoo 8 Beta

You can be forgiven for missing it, but yesterday Yahoo launched the new beta of Yahoo! Messenger with Voice (v8). While its functionality is very similar to that of Windows Live Messenger 8 and ... Read more »

No Yahoo interop when Messenger goes final

It seems as though Windows Live Messenger users and Yahoo users will not be able to talk to one another immediately when WL Messenger goes final next week. Unfortunately this feature will still be ... Read more »

Yahoo integration in Windows Live Messenger – Coming Soon

At long last we are hearing some more on the Yahoo and MSN interoperability deal wthat was announced last year, thanks to Leah over at the team blog. The interoperability will allow users on ... Read more »