What Telecom CEO Theresa Gattung recently referred to as the "worst kept secret in the industry" is now official: the telco is partnering with Yahoo! to provide content and online services for its Xtra web portal.
Yahoo will reorganise into three new units, as part of a shake-up that will see chief operating officer Dan Rosensweig leave the company, says Yahoo.
Yahoo has introduced a mechanism for external developers to give their web applications access to data that Yahoo members have stored in Yahoo services.
Security company CipherTrust recently announced an upgrade to its appliance designed to secure and manage corporate use of instant messaging with features that add tighter control and better threat protection to this popular communication channel.
Microsoft may be cooking up a major internet partnership to rival Google's newly bolstered relationship with American Online (AOL), according to a blog posting by a Microsoft manager.
Yahoo's chairman and chief executive officer Terry Semel strongly defended the company's decision to turn over evidence to Chinese authorities that helped the government convict a local journalist and send him to jail for 10 years.
Yahoo plans to take a significant stake in China's Alibaba.com as part of a strategic partnership between the two companies, a company official said yesterday in Beijing.
Yahoo is poised to pay US$1 billion (NZ$1.4 billion) to buy a 35% stake in Alibaba.com and hand its Chinese operations over to the e-commerce vendor, the Dow Jones Newswire is reporting, citing "a person familiar with the deal".
Profits double from a year ago
Move came under attack in US media as opening the floodgates to spam
NZoom's Olympics Web site has shown up in an Asia Pacific-wide ratings sweep - but the most popular Games sites in the region are Japanese.