We have just learned that Yahoo! is planning to shut down two of it’s very popular web based services – Del.icio.us and MyBlogLog. Looks like Yahoo! is now a place where startups go to die!

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So you have completely moved to GMail and think Yahoo! mail is a thing of the past. Even I had a similar feeling that GMail is now the most widely used web mail service, but only till I came across some statistics published by Hitwise according to which Yahoo! Mail is still the most widely used web mail (e-mail) service around the world.

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Yes you heard it right. Carol Bartz, the Yahoo CEO, said in a BBC interview that Google needs to diversify to stay relevant. She even went on to say that search is 99.9% of Google’s bussiness and that Google has to a lot more than just search, while Google already is more than just search….

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Earlier, Canonical announced that they are changing the default search in Firefox from Google to Yahoo in Ubuntu 10.04. In a surprising turn-around, they have decided to ditch Yahoo! and change the default search in Firefox back to Google Search.

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According to anti-virus firm Avast, ads provided by large providers like Google, Yahoo! and Fox are delivering malwares along with their ads. This does not affect only the three mentioned above. Avast termed this as the “probably the biggest ad poisoning ever made”. The poisoning discovered by them is said to affect almost all the…

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Following the footsteps of Google and Microsoft, Yahoo has announced that tweets from Twitter users into its search engine. Most of the features will be available by the year’s end although Yahoo has already rolled out a few Twitter-integrated features. Yahoo is counting on the Twitter partnership to transform itself into a highly customizable social…

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Microsoft and Yahoo announced this morning that both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission have approved an agreement between the two firms to have Microsoft’s Bing search engine power Yahoo’s sites. Microsoft and Yahoo engineers will now start working together to adapt Bing for Yahoo. The partnership means Yahoo will selling premium…

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In an earlier post we have told that Google will be replaced by Yahoo! as the default search in Firefox in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. Now, the Ubuntu community has come up with the design for what the Firefox Start Page with Yahoo! is going to be like.

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From now on, the Firefox Browser that is shipped with Ubuntu Linux will have Yahoo! Search as the default search engine in the Firefox Search bar.

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