Yahoo usage drops big time in UK

Sat 31 January 2009 12:14, Bas van den Beld

Yahoo is losing ground in the UK. And its losing ground fast. Numbers released by Efficient Frontier show a decline in search advertising of no less than 40% in the final Quarter of 2008. Where Yahoo had a market share of 13,9 percent in 2007 in 2008 the market share dropped to 8,4 percent. Goog...... read more

Yahoo being sued in Belgium

Mon 26 January 2009 11:21, Editors

Yahoo! is being sued in Belgium for not cooperating with the Belgian Justice Department. Today (Monday) the case will be handled in Dendermonde, Belgium. The District Attorney asked for cooperation of Yahoo in a cybercrime-research. Yahoo however refused to cooperate. Yahoo didn’t want to ...... read more

20% of French Yahoo employees to be fired

Thu 22 January 2009 11:01, Bas van den Beld

In October Yahoo announced major cutbacks in their staff. Most of these cutbacks would be taking place in the US, but Yahoo now announced it will be firing 52 of its 251-counting staff in France. Worldwide Yahoo is cutting 10% of its staff. The French get hit extra hard because of the large amou...... read more

Yahoo closes European Content Network

Thu 15 January 2009 17:19, Editors

Yahoo keeps dominating the news these days. Earlier this week they had a dispute with the Premier League, yesterday Yahoo announced their new CEO, but at the same time Yahoo UK announced it will be discontinuing their Content Match product in Europe. Content Match lets Yahoo Publisher Network pu...... read more

Carol Bartz new CEO Yahoo, Decker quits

Wed 14 January 2009 09:22, Editors

After months of speculation Yahoo finally announced a CEO to take the place of Yahoo-founder Jerry Yang. Carol Bartz, Executive Chairman of Autodesk, will take Yang's place. Bartz was named several times in the last week as the possible new CEO. Word is the 'battle' for the position was between ...... read more