Yahoo acquires U.S. sports media site Rivals.com
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Yahoo Inc.  said on  Wednesday it would acquire Rivals.com, a site for fans of  college and high school teams, bolstering the Internet media  company's place as the top U.S. sports site in audience terms.
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(InfoWorld) - Yahoo agreed to buy Web video editing and publishing site Jumpcut.com on Wednesday, as Internet companies continue to seek ways to compete with YouTube. The move comes nearly four months after the Sunnyvale, California, companyÂ revamped its own Yahoo Video site, and could foretell further acquisitions in the Web video space.Â Microsoft recently openedÂ the beta version of itsÂ online video-sharing serviceÂ last week, Soapbox on MSN Video, while AOLÂ unveiled a revamped video portalÂ in late July to strengthen its position against YouTube and Google Video. Yahoo and Jumpcut both announced the deal on company blogs, and Jumpcut even made a short video to commemorate the event, which can beÂ seen here. The video site will join a host of other Yahoo properties, including Flickr and Del.icio.us. The deal will help Jumpcut reach a broader audience, and gain "more creators, more content and more exciting things to do," it said. Yahoo said Jumpcut would be part of the Yahoo Video family, indicating that the online Web video service would not replace Yahoo's own video service,Â available here. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Jumpcut was founded and run by MiraVida Media, a San Francisco company. YouTube thrashed all rivals in a count of U.S. visitors from HitwiseÂ earlier this year, with 43 percent of traffic to video sites, nearly double the share of runner up MySpace.com. Myspace, in turn, held twice as much market share as the third and fourth place video sites, Yahoo and MSN. In a more recent survey earlier this month, YouTube captured 60 percent of all U.K. online video traffic.
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There has been talk of the Indian online advertising and search driven portal landgrab is beginning with Yahoo &#038; Google possibly targeting acquisitions of Rediff and other popular Indian web destinations, but Yahoo just made a move which is quite similar to their Right Media strategy in the US. Yahoo has acquired a 35% stake in [...]
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Yahoo! Inc. on Tuesday announced plans to acquire online music service Musicmatch Inc. in a cash deal valued at US$160 million. It&#39;s Yahoo&#39;s maneuver to become a player in the online digital music download
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Yahoo Inc. has acquired a stake in Indian Internet advertising company Tyroo Media Pvt. Ltd. to help it capture more of the country&#39;s fast-growing online ad market.
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MacCentral - Yahoo! Inc. on Tuesday announced plans to acquire online music service Musicmatch Inc. in a cash deal valued at US&#36;160 million. It's Yahoo's maneuver to become a player in the online digital music download world, currently dominated by Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes Music Store, and populated by a variety of other competitors including Napster, Microsoft's MSN Music, Wal-Mart and others.
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Microsoft Corp. offered to buy search engine operator Yahoo Inc. for $44.6 billion in cash and stock in a move to boost its competitive edge in the online services market.
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Yahoo Inc. took control of online advertising exchange Right Media Inc. on Thursday, giving the slumping Internet portal a head start on rivals Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in a heated race to build more powerful marketing vehicles.
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By David Quainton  Yahoo! has handed almost all its UK business to Hill & Knowlton.   As broken on PRWeek.com this Monday, the appointment sees the internet firm part ways with Bite Communications, Brands2Life and Cohn & Wolfe.
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Microsoft Corp   offered to buy Yahoo Inc  for $44.6 billion, in a bold  bid to transform two ailing Internet businesses into a worthy  competitor for market leader Google Inc .
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Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for around $44.6 billion in cash and shares, to better compete with Google in the market for online services.
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Yahoo Inc. continued its pursuit of online ad rivals with the  purchase of private online advertising firm BlueLithium Inc. for $300 million.
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Microsoft said Friday it had offered to buy struggling Internet firm Yahoo for 44.6 billion dollars (30.0 billion euros) in a bid to take on Google in the crucial battle for online revenues.
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Yahoo on Tuesday confirmed it acquired a start-up last month called Wuf Networks that produces technology to let people transfer digital files onto mobile devices.
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Yahoo agreed to buy Web video site Jumpcut.com on Wednesday, a sign Internet companies continue to seek ways to rival popular YouTube.
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO  - Yahoo Inc  is in  talks on a possible deal with News Corp , but analysts  said an alternative was unlikely to emerge to rival Microsoft  Corp's  bid for Yahoo, now valued at $42.1 billion.
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Technology giant Microsoft Corp   said on Friday that it had offered to acquire Internet  media company Yahoo Inc  for $44.6 billion in cash and  stock.