Rumours of a Yahoo sale have intensified this week, with Microsoft, News Corp and an international conglomerate of Silver Lake, Chinese Alibaba and Russia’s Digital Sky considering bids for the embattled internet media firm, according to news reports.
Twitter has launched a new web analytics tool, helping site owners keep track of Twitter-driven traffic, as the micro-blooging site looks to appeal to the enterprise segment. Separately, the company also announced plans to expand its Promoted Tweets platform.
Doubts are emerging over a report that AOL is considering buying Yahoo, following the firing of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz earlier this week.
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Facebook’s revenue doubled to US$1.6bn in the first half of 2011 as its ad revenues soared, according to a news report.
4 in 5 Japanese web users visited a blog site during June, according to new data.
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Social gaming firm Zynga is preparing to file for an initial public offering as early as today and hopes to raise up to $2bn, according to a news report.
Yahoo has reportedly approached Hulu to discuss a possible acquisition of the popular online video service, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
Yahoo! has reached an agreement with China’s Alibaba over online-payment business Alipay, Reuters reported, citing people close to the matter.