Yahoo 'reaches deal' with Alibaba over Alipay dispute
Yahoo! has reached an agreement with China’s Alibaba over online-payment business Alipay, Reuters reported, citing people close to the matter.
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Online payments on China: Yahoo and Alibaba try to mend ties
Yahoo and Alibaba Group issued a joint statement on Sunday, as the two companies look to resolve a dispute over a Chinese online payment service.
Yahoo search stats: Many teens ‘don’t know who Osama Bin Laden was’
Searches on Sunday for Osama bin Laden spiked nearly 100,000% on Yahoo!, but many teens were looking up who he was, according to new data.
Flickr ‘Royal Wedding Album’ shows what the world was doing on the big day
Flickr has launched ‘The People’s Royal Wedding Album’, a competition that aims to capture how the British public marked the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
YouTube buys social bookmarking firm Delicious from Yahoo
YouTube has bought the online social-bookmarking service Delicious from Yahoo for an undisclosed sum.
Yometa combines Google, Yahoo and Bing for ‘visual search engine’
Yometa has launched a visual search engine, designed to provide searchers with the most relevant results from the most popular search engines.
Guardian newspaper: Repositioning as global liberal news provider accelerates
The Guardian’s bullish push into the US market accelerates as editor Alan Rusbridger announces a New York-based initiative that will be ‘significantly larger than anything we’ve done in the states before’. ”Newspapers have been fighting to find their role in the online world since The Daily Telegraph first launched online in 1994, but The Guardian … [Read more…]
Top 20 tips: Getting the most out of pay-per-click ads
It can be pretty easy to set up a Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising campaign, but getting the most out of your investment takes a bit more work. This latest series of Top 20 tips, from James Parker, senior PPC Consultant at Stream:20, gives you top tips on how to optimise your campaign.
Yahoo! examines the science of advertising with AdLabs
Yahoo has launched AdLabs, a service that will reportedly combine success-measuring ad metrics and science to stimulate innovation in the online advertising sphere.
Anti-spam email provider Goodmail to shut down
E-mail services provider Goodmail Systems is to cease operations this month, following the collapse of takeover talks with an unnamed buyer.