Yahoo was rumored to be seeking a switch to Google even before Mayer was CEO. However a Bloomberg report said Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been unsuccessful in her attempts to get out of the agreement for almost a year.
Yahoo and Microsoft have extended their revenue-per-search guarantee for one year, an extension of a partnership that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer had hinted wouldn't continue when the current one expired March 31.
On the earnings call, CEO Marissa Mayer said Yahoo had more than 300 million monthly mobile users. Transcript of secret meeting between Julian Assange and Google CEO Eric Schmidt – WikileaksTranscript of secret 5-hour meeting that took place June...
EMarketer report forecasts Yahoo will grow its U.S.search ad revenues by 7 percent to $1.23 billion in 2013, but still lose search share to Google and Microsoft. Google will take 73.7 percent of U.S.search ad revenues, while Microsoft will reach...
As Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has pointed out, Yahoo and Bing are basically swapping search market share rather than making any headway against Google. Google sites led the way with 12.3 billion searches (down 6 percent) followed by Microsoft sites...
As for Yahoo, CEO Marissa Mayer has made no secret that she’s not happy with the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal, which has seen Yahoo and Bing basically swapping search market share over the past two years, rather than eat into Google’s gigantic lead.
The Yahoo-Microsoft search deal isn't working as planned, according to Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. Yahoo's deal with Microsoft came after a long saga that included Microsoft trying to buy Yahoo, only for its then CEO and founder Jerry Yang to rebuff...
While Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, a former Google executive, may well be open to such a deal, some have speculated that might lead to antitrust concerns. The deal is non-exclusive, so Yahoo will also continue to display ads from competitors such as...
Just when Yahoo kicked itself to the curb, it experienced an emotional rebound by hiring ex-Googler Marissa Mayer as Yahoo’s new CEO, who brought optimism and excitement for a potential Yahoo fairly-tale comeback.
From that point, until 2012, it seemed that every piece of news from Yahoo was bad news, until July 16 when the announcement came that they had snagged Marissa Meyer from Google to become CEO. With the Microsoft/Yahoo alliance also came the affect...
Recently appointed Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has promised to make technology innovation the center of the company's future during Yahoo's third quarter investor call. However, Mayer also noted that Yahoo's search share is challenged and that the...
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer laid out her vision for the future of Yahoo for employees yesterday, some of whom leaked the details of her plan to AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher. How, exactly, she will accomplish this remains to be seen, though it’s worth...
Microsoft and Yahoo announced a 10-year search partnership in July 2009, shortly after Carol Bartz took over as CEO after Jerry Yang. Microsoft is to rebrand its advertising arm as part of a deeper partnership with Yahoo.
BrightEdge CEO Jim Yu told Search Engine Watch how their expansion into the UK came about: "At the end of last year, we had built a solid business in the UK and Europe with agencies like OMD, SMV and Performics; and great brands like Hotels.com...
In April 2011, Google sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube, ranked as the top online video content property with 142.7 million unique viewers, followed by VEVO with 55.2 million, Yahoo sites with 53.2 million, Facebook with 46.7...
After just five months, Yahoo has replaced CEO Scott Thompson, who was forced to step down under intense pressure from investors. Yahoo’s Ongoing CEO Struggles Yahoo released a statement from Fred Amoroso, chairman of Yahoo's board of directors...
Yahoo's leadership dramas refuse to die down after revelations that recently appointed CEO Scott Thompson may have embellished his resume by claiming to hold a degree in accounting and computer science, when the degree was actually just for...
The report credits the delay to a series of acquisitions which have occupied the attention of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The company later made a second strategic transaction when it purchased a series of social networking patents from...
The agreement with Microsoft represents the culmination of a robust auction process for our patent portfolio,” said Tim Armstrong, AOL’s Chairman and CEO. Facebook, a partner of Microsoft, has also recently been trading lawsuits with Yahoo over...
Yahoo has struggled in recent years to capture its former success, with previous CEO Carol Bartz fired and replaced by ex-PayPal chief Scott Thompson, while founder Jerry Yang has also left the company.
