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Archive for December 2004

December 22nd, 2004

Yahoo Appoints Senior Finance VP As Accounting Chief

Yahoo! said Tuesday that its board appointed Michael Murray, the company’s senior vice president of finance, as its new chief accounting officer.
The Sunnyvale, Calif., Internet search engine company said that beginning next year, Murray will be eligible to participate in the company’s executive incentive plan and is guaranteed 100% of his $130,000 target incentive for […]

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December 22nd, 2004

Yahoo raises the stakes in China

IHT reports that at the end of this month Yahoo! will offer China’s 27 million broadband subscribers the company’s first service to combine mail and instant messaging as it tries to win market share in the nation.
Yahoo Mail Messenger service will allow users to access instant messaging for free through their mailbox service with only […]

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December 22nd, 2004

Net worm using Google to spread

News.com reports that A Web worm that identifies potential victims by searching Google is spreading among online bulletin boards using a vulnerable version of the program phpBB, security professionals said on Tuesday.
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December 22nd, 2004

Yahoo denies family access to dead marine’s e-mail

News.com reports whats shapping up to be a PR disaster for Yahoo! with reports the family of a U.S. Marine killed in Iraq was denied access to the soldier’s Yahoo e-mail account due to the company’s policies, raising questions of whether businesses should balance privacy with special requests.
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December 21st, 2004

Froogle turns to Web for product reviews

News.com reports that in the weeks before Christmas, Google has quietly added third-party product reviews to its comparison shopping engine, Froogle.
In a move to make its site a one-stop online shopping service, Google has started taking snippets of editorial and consumer reviews from sites such as Bizrate.com, Circuit City and CNET, and pairing them […]

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December 21st, 2004

Yahoo! signs Nextel

Yahoo! has signed a deal with Nextel that marked the expansion of its mobile services to all of the major U.S. carriers: Sprint, Nextel, Verizon, Cingular and T-Mobile. The Nextel distribution gain makes Yahoo! content, and marketing campaigns, accessible to most wireless subscribers in the U.S. that have data access. Through its WAP portal, the […]

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December 21st, 2004

Overture Draws Web Sites into Local Listings

Yahoo!’s Overture has modified its local business listings, part of its Local Match program, to let advertisers highlight their Web sites.
The new business listings pages have a tabbed structure with the initial page divided into two frames. The top part of the frame provides the advertiser’s name, address, e-mail address, phone number, company description […]

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December 21st, 2004

Google Fixes Desktop Search Flaw

Internetnews.com reports that Google has fixed a flaw in its beta desktop search tool that could have given hackers access to users’ local searches. The vulnerability, discovered and reported by three members of Rice University’s computer science department, proved it was possible for a malware (define) writer to grab information from a Web page containing […]

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December 21st, 2004

McCaffrey leaving Google

Silicon Beat reports that Cindy McCaffrey, Google’s vice president of corporate marketing, is leaving the technology company, the first top executive to depart after the IPO. She’s been at Google more than five years, which means that, post-IPO, she can comfortably go off and do nothing. And that’s apparently what she intends to do for […]

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December 17th, 2004

Yahoo maps offer live U.S. traffic conditions

News.com reports that Yahoo is offering an online service that lets users view live U.S. local traffic conditions on custom-created maps, making it the first site to do so nationally, the company said late Wednesday.
In a milestone for Internet-based traffic services, Yahoo has beefed up its existing mapping services to allow customers to plot […]

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