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Yahoo! is an Internet search and web portal company founded in 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo. Yahoo! was one of the premier search engines of the 1990s, and though Google dominated the search market in the subsequent decade, Yahoo! still accounted for roughly 20% of all searches by June, 2008. As of October, 2007, Yahoo! received 3.4 billion page views per day.

In addition to its search features, Yahoo! features multiple portal services, including Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Sports, and and Yahoo! Messenger. Yahoo! Buzz monitors the most popular and fastest-rising searches on Yahoo! each day. The company makes the vast majority of its revenue off its marketing and advertising services. According to Yahoo!'s 2008 annual report, the company made $7.2 billion dollars in 2007.

Despite its popularity, Yahoo! underwent a crisis in the second half of the 2000s in the wake of competition from sites like Google. In 2007, a proposed merger with Microsoft failed after extensive negotiations and an offer of $44.6 billion in cash and stock from Microsoft.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “yahoo”

 

• Marco Arment on Tumblr: "In many ways, this feels more like a merger than an acquisition."

  
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  Marco Arment on Tumblr: "In many ways, this feels more like a merger than an acquisition." : Buying Tumblr is a big enough deal for Yahoo that they clearly aren’t intending to ruin it or shut it down — like YouTube and Google, Tumblr will probably become an extremely important part of Yahoo indefinitely. And I ...
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• Marissa Mayer getting in the Tumblr spirit

  
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  No one can say Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer doesn’t have a sense of humor. She and her top aides have acknowledged that the giant Internet portal has lost a lot of cred with younger Internet users in recent years. So when Mayer announced Monday that Yahoo was buying the hipster blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 ...
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• Bits Blog: Tumblr Founder Says Site to Stay ‘Independent’ Effort

  
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  A day after Yahoo’s board approved a deal to acquire Tumblr, Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s chief, and David Karp, Tumblr’s founder, reassured users that Tumblr would operate as it did before. See the rest here: Bits Blog: Tumblr Founder Says Site to Stay ‘Independent’ Effort
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• Yahoo revamps Flickr, adds 1TB free space and redesigned Android app

  
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  Just when we thought that we could almost shrug Yahoo off completely, it seems that the company still has a few cards up its sleeve. Not only has the company now announced plans to purchase Tumblr , Yahoo is also introducing a complete redesign for Flickr , bringing with it one terabyte of free storage space for ...
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• Yahoo raises the stakes for free Flickr storage: 1 terabyte

  
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  Its official: Yahoo! CEO Marissa Meyer has gone completely bonkers, as the Yahoo-owned Flickr has just announced that all users now have a free terabyte of storage . Thats a thousand gigabytes, folks. For free. As the Flickr website touts, 1 terabyte will hold 537,731 photos at an average size of 6.5 megapixels ...
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• Yahoo To Buy Tumblr For $1.1 Billion

  
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  The combination of Yahoo and Tumblr creates an online powerhouse with roughly one...
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• The Daily Roundup for 05.20.2013

  
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  You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours -- all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and ...
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• New Flickr Walkthrough: So Pretty, So Much, So Free

  
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  After languishing for years as a neglected acquisition, Flickr has finally been given the jumpstart it so desperately needed and deserved. As of right now, not only to you get a free terabyte of storage and extremely high res photo uploads, you get it in pretty stellar package. Heres what youre dealing with. ...
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• Yahoo boosts Flickr storage to one terabyte, reboots Android app

  
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  This week amid word that the company had purchased Tumblr to give its youth segment a boost, the company made use of the press it’d been given for a couple boosts to Flickr. Having acquired Flickr back in 2005 to the tune of $35 million USD, it’s no wonder that a $1.1 billion dollar cost for Tumblr continues to ...
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• File Under: Yeah I think that is actually a question

  
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  selfdoubtandsyphilis : dankestrnemes : do animals think in english or in the sounds they make this is what yahoo paid $1.1 billion for I think it’s a valid question! We all know that Pandas speak Chinese and Koalas have Australian accents. That’s at least worth $10 Million or so.
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• Theres Not Much Tumblr Advertising for Yahoo to Screw Up

  
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  In her now-famous tweet, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer promised not to "screw up" Tumblr . While it remains to be seen whether the sites users will soon be fleeing, Tumblrs advertising is a different story Simply put, theres not much to screw up at this point. Partially, thats because the companys ad units are so new. ...
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• Meet the "Heart-Stoppingly Beautiful" New Flickr: 1TB Free For All!

  
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  At a press event today in New York City, Yahoo! made a big announcement for Flickr . And we mean big : the photo sharing site is getting a full makeover and offering one terabyte of storage to every user (thats well over 500,000 photos) - completely free. Flickr isnt only making space for more photos, its ...
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• Flickr Updates with 1TB Free Storage, new UI and Android App

  
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  Flickr is a popular photos sharing service owned by Yahoo and it provides uses with free space to upload and share photos. Yahoo has just announced big plans for Flickr with a massive 1TB of free storage for all users. There are also changes to the account types available. The new accounts available are Free, Ad ...
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• Yahoo’s $1.1B Tumblr Acquisition And A CEO’s Promise To Not Screw Up

  
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  Yahoo is acquiring blogging platform Tumblr in a $1.1 billion deal, substantially all of which is payable in cash. The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to close in the second half of the year.  Following the… Read more → The post Yahoo’s $1.1B Tumblr Acquisition ...
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• Flickr Redesigns Pages and Gives Users 1 TB of Free Storage

  
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  Tweet Flickr has 1TB of free photo storage waiting with your name on it. If you’ve been checking out online storage options for your photos, but haven’t found any yet that meet your size requirements, your options just increased. The company touts that as enough space to store 537,731 photos at 6.5 ...
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• Yahoo Reinvents Flickr UI for Android, Web with 1TB of Free Storage

  
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  Yahoo took the stage in New York City today—the site of its new headquarters—and discussed the future of Flickr. The company said that it wanted... The post Yahoo Reinvents Flickr UI for Android, Web with 1TB of Free Storage appeared first on ioTechie Technology News .
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• Flickr Makes a Comeback With New Design and 1 Terabyte of Free Storage

  
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  Yahoo has made a couple bold moves in an effort to make Flickr the premier destination for storing and sharing photographs. Flickr user’s homepages have been completely redesigned to make thephotos more prominent than ever. There’s also a spot to upload a profile feature and a customizable banner. ...
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• Flickr App Updated, Brings High-Res Photo-centric Look

  
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  On top of all the other exciting news from Yahoo! today, the company just launched an update to their official Flickr Android app through Google Play, bringing a very polished look with it. The app’s UI is centered solely on photos and Yahoo doesn’t seem scared to recommend some great photographers that you should ...
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• Flickr introduces redesigned app for Android alongside refreshed website

  
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  Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been on a spree today with announcement of a stunning 1.1 billion USD Tumblr acquisition. Later in the day she took the stage to announce a brand new set of changes to make Flickr relevant again. The update focuses on a completely updated interface that has more than a passing resemblance ...
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• Mayer on Tumblr porn

  
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  Q: Will you restrict content on Tumblr? Mayer: No, we dont. Its the nature of user-generated content. Its really important to have great community tools like NSFW that Tumblr already has in place.
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