I’ve been getting a few pings from folks regarding Yahoo’s plans to transition its Shopping property to a third party. My team at Yahoo launched the Shopping API in August 2005 (although I don’t work for Yahoo anymore so I can’t provide insider answers on what’s going on here).
Since the new partner service (PriceGrabber) apparently [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Yahoo'
Yahoo Pulls Plug on Shopping API
January 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Platforms, Web/Tech, Work, Yahoo
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New Management and “Colorful Language” At Yahoo!
January 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Business, Yahoo
Link: Yahoo Picks Former Autodesk Chief to Succeed Yang
In a conference call with analysts, [incoming CEO Carol Bartz] acknowledged that Yahoo faced significant challenges but said she believed that the company’s strong brand and market position gave it a “huge opportunity.”
Ms. Bartz also delivered some of the colorful rhetoric she has become known for. “I [...]
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Microllsoft
May 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Microsoft, Yahoo
People have been talking over the weekend about the failed Microsoft/Yahoo takeover talks. As a Yahoo shareholder and former employee I’m disappointed that it’s going to be quite some time before we get our money out of that stock (note to self: in the future, always sell ESPP shares the day you leave). I empathize [...]
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Dear OpenSocialTards,
March 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Google, Yahoo
Link: Announcing the OpenSocial Foundation
Banding together to make a half-dozen social networks interoperable is not the same as having critical mass. It is the equivalent of having fifteen women band together to give birth to a child.
Also, creating a nonprofit foundation to manage your endeavor does not automatically make you equivalent to Firefox.
Cheers. I’m always [...]
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Nonsensical NY Times Story on MSFT/YHOO Integration
February 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Microsoft, The NY Times Valiantly Attempts To Report on Technology, Yahoo
To hear the New York Times’ John Markoff and Matt Richtel describe it in their largely fact-free story on the technical integration that Yahoo! and Microsoft will need to do if the merger goes through, you’d think that a Yahoo-Microsoft integration will amount to a cleaning of the Aegean stables.
The writers did take the time [...]
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More Thoughts on YHOO/MSFT
February 1st, 2008 · 4 Comments · Microsoft, Yahoo
Zend and Microsoft have done a lot of work in the last year to make PHP run well on Windows. I never understood why Microsoft devoted resources to that, but now it is clear: it’s going to make technical integration between the two organizations go much more smoothly.
This will hopefully be the death knell of [...]
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Yahoo’s Last Chapter
February 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Microsoft, Yahoo
My wife (who, like me, used to work for Yahoo!) rolled her eyes this morning when I told her about the Microsoft offer. We used to excitedly hear rumors of this kind of thing every three to six months but they were only rumors. Now it’s the real deal, and I have to say, I’m [...]
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Yahoo! Calendar API Coming “Soon”
January 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Yahoo
While browsing one of the Yahoo! developer groups for information on something else, I noticed that somebody accidentally published a spec for an upcoming Calendar API.
I tried to move this forward way back in 2005, so it’s exciting to finally see this coming, although since I left Yahoo! I’ve started using 30Boxes (which has its [...]
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Yahoo Reported to Plan Hundreds of Layoffs
January 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Yahoo
Link: Yahoo Reported to Plan Hundreds of Layoffs
"Over the weekend, some blogs reported that Yahoo was considering layoffs of 10 to 20 percent of its work force. But the people close to the company, who discussed Yahoo’s layoff plans on condition that they not be identified, said the cuts would likely be in the ‘hundreds.’"
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Yahoos Quest to Open Up – Bits – Technology
January 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Yahoo
Link: Yahoos Quest to Open Up
"For months, Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang has been talking about swinging open the doors to the Yahoo portal. A key goal, he has said again and again, is to turn Yahoo into a set of platforms for third-party publishers and developers."
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