Yahoo - Startup News

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FireEagle - A Platform Service For Geo Information From Yahoo

Built entirely on Ruby on Rails, Salim Ismail’s Brickhouse is announcing a very useful new platform service tonight called the FireEagle, which is a platform service for Geo information. It is a platform more...

Discuss | Topic: Online Collaboration | by Jitendra 395 days ago (techcrunch.com)

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Yahoo will buy 10 percent of Alibaba.com IPO shares

Alibaba.com, the leader of Chinese e-commerce is preparing its IPO and going through the motions for doing this. Yahoo, in a bid to strengthen its presence in the competitive Chinese market is buying more...

Discuss | Topic: IPO | by Jitendra 422 days ago (news.com)

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Zimbra - Why Did Yahoo spent $350 Million?

A good post by Richard talking about why Zimbra was bought by Yahoo recently. Richard argues that Zimbra been the poster child in Web 2.0 space since 2005. He also discusses the suitability of deploying more...

Discuss | Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions | by Vic 441 days ago (readwriteweb.com)

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Yahoo acquires Zimbra for $350

It is payday for Zimbra folks after acquisition of Zimbra by Yahoo for $350 Million. Zimbra is a unique startup with open source development model. This is Yahoo's entry into the application space. more...

3 Comments | Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions | by Vic 443 days ago (ross.typepad.com)

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Yahoo buys Buzztracker.com for $5 Million

I have to confess that while I have heard of Buzztracker, it seems like a distant also-ran in the meme-tracker game. I check Techmeme.com religiously because it is by far the best (most timely, least spam-fille more...

Discuss | Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions | by Vic 447 days ago (mathewingram.com)

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AOL buys Yedda

The Yahoo answers clone - Yedda has been bought by the Time Warner behemoth AOL for an undisclosed amount. AOL has been acquiring companies that deal with both - ad-network as well as content ones. more...

Discuss | Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions | by Jitendra 388 days ago (alleyinsider.com)

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Voice search startup Vlingo gets $20M and a Yahoo Deal !

Trying desperately to become one-up on competition (nee Google), Yahoo is bolstering its mobile oneSearch program by teaming up with voice search startup Vlingo exclusively to offer this on about 600 Million more...

Discuss | Topic: Search | by Jitendra 245 days ago (gigaom.com)