Brief: Motor vehicle agency redesigns Web site
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The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles hopes to drive business away from its branches and into the homes of its customers.
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Internet powerhouse Yahoo has given its popular Web site a facelift to highlight some of the features that the company has been improving during the past year.
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Revamped search engine allows users to store and share results.
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(InfoWorld) - Yahoo will reorganize into three new units, as part of a shake-up that will see Chief Operating Officer Dan Rosensweig leave the company, Yahoo said Tuesday. The company said the new groups will help it focus on its most important customer segments: the consumer audience, advertisers, and publishers, in an effort to compete more aggressively. Once an Internet and Wall Street darling and consistently one of the Internet's top three sites, the company has struggled in the face of a changing Internet landscape, including the rise of social networking sites, and sharp competition from rivals like Google. The move was not entirely unexpected. Last month, an internal document now known asÂ the "Peanut Butter Memo"Â called for such a reorganization. The memo, written by Yahoo Senior Vice President of Communications and Communities Brad Garlinghouse, accused the company of involving itself in too many separate activities, spreading itself too thin like a layer of "peanut butter," and said it should focus instead on key areas. It also recommended up to a 20 percent reduction in headcount, although no cuts were announced in Yahoo's Tuesday statement. The new units are the Audience Group, the Advertiser & Publisher Group, and the Technology Group. Each group's head will report directly to Chief Executive Officer Terry Semel. The Audience Group will focus on its existing consumer products, such as search, Web-based e-mail, and news aggregation, while developing social networking, mobile and handheld content, and international offerings. Yahoo said a search was underway for a group head. The Advertiser & Publisher Group will handle advertising and relationships with Yahoo partner publishers. It will create a global advertising network both on and off Yahoo sites, but the company did not specify how that will happen, although it recentlyÂ partnered with U.S. newspapersÂ to provide targeted local advertising. Yahoo Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker will oversee this group. Decker will surrender that title and the company will seek a replacement for her, Yahoo said. Yahoo's new Technology Group will be charged with building and maintaining the infrastructure for these new efforts, and will continue its work on "Project Panama." The codenamed initiative is believed to be a new advertising system designed to compete with Google's AdWords, with ads served according to search terms entered by users. Chief Technology Officer Farzad Nazem will head the unit. The new units and titles will take effect beginning January 1, 2007. Rosensweig will leave at the end of March, Yahoo said. No replacement was immediately named.
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The nation's first state government portal  keeps getting better, thanks to an innovative new design unveiled last  week.
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Business & money: Â· Government-owned site switches to Alderney Â· Move allows it to advertise but avoid UK regulation
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NEW YORK Dec 13, 2004 - The Internet&#39;s key oversight agency gave a preliminary nod Monday to new domain names targeting mobile services and the jobs market.
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By Brad Cooper, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Feb. 8--After a little more than a week, the Web site for the Kansas City Scout traffic management system is fully functioning again.
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Mozilla's Mike Shaver tells us how the redesign of Firefox's community site will better serve its web tinkerers. Wired News Q&A by Michael Calore.
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Yahoo's Spartan home page will look even less flashy soon, thanks to an upcoming makeover. The Web media giant offered a preview of its redesigned front page Tuesday (www.yahoo.com/upgrade) and said the simpler look will replace the old one in a few weeks.
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The U.S. Commerce Department said on   Friday it would retain oversight for three more years of the   company that manages Internet domain names, renewing an   agreement that was scheduled to expire this weekend.
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Blog: Company hopes to improve upon existing toolbars already on the market.
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WALTHAM, Mass., Jan. 31  /PRNewswire/ -- Design News, a leading news resource for design engineers, is launching the first online community dedicated to the growing discipline of mechatronics, the integration of mechanics, electronics, computers and control systems in design.
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By Jonathan Nelson, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Feb. 12--Tell us about your job?   I do Internet sales (at Dick Hannah Motors). When somebody visits a (vehicle) Web site, they put their information in. We take that lead and give them all the information (on the vehicle).
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The U.S. Commerce Department said on  Friday it would retain its oversight of the company that  manages Internet domain names, renewing an agreement that was  scheduled to expire this weekend.
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SAN FRANCISCO - After being written off by industry observers last year, America Online Inc.&#39;s browser unit showed signs of life Tuesday as it released an update to its Netscape Web browser.
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By Mac Daniel, The Boston Globe  Dec. 15--A $466,000 revamp of the MBTA website debuts this morning, and  for the first time uses interactive maps to show bus and subway routes over  detailed street maps.