Yahoo to issue refunds after NFL streaming falters
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Yahoo Inc. YHOO.O is offering refunds   to customers of its new Internet streaming package of National   Football League games after a technological problem caused   access problems on Sunday.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo Inc. warned yesterday that slowing ad growth will depress its third-quarter results, marking the Internet powerhouse's latest letdown.
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Audio recordings of this year's pro football playoff games will be available for download. Also:  Verizon and Yahoo team up to provide premium online service.... Electronic Arts strikes deals to corner the sports games market.... and more.
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Internet media company Yahoo Inc.   on Tuesday reported a dip in quarterly profit in line  with previously lowered expectations, weighed down by weak  brand advertising and recent management turmoil.
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The departure of television veteran Lloyd Braun from Yahoo Inc. underscores a shift, or at least a major hiccup, by Internet companies away from creating costly original content.
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Yahoo Inc. YHOO.O said on Tuesday   the company expects third-quarter revenues to be at the bottom   half of its forecast range due to weakness from its two biggest   advertising segments, sending its shares down as much as 13   percent.
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Prime Time won't be playing in prime time this time. Deion Sanders was on the inactive list and missed a chance to strut his stuff on "Monday Night Football."
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The Toronto Argonauts are offering a big giveaway to make up for a big loss. Apologizing to their fans after getting beaten 58-20 by the Montreal Alouettes, the CFL club said Friday that a ticket stub from
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Time Warner Cable has threatened to  go to court to overturn a decision forcing the No. 2 U.S. cable  company to reinstate the NFL Network on some of its systems,  according to a filing obtained on Monday.
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(InfoWorld) - On Feb. 5, at about 7 a.m. local time, I'll be watching the Super Bowl. For those of us living in foreign lands where football means a round ball, the NFL doesn't get primetime coverage. Despite growing up as an NFL fan, when I say "football" now to anyone except my mother, I'm talking about soccer. When I watch football on any given weekend, it's the glorious exploits of my beloved Arsenal Football Club I'm enjoying, not those of the New York Giants. During almost 11 years in China, I have slowly seen those vestiges of the U.S. unavailable here in Beijing disappear. The Internet changed the way we live overseas. Letters became e-mails. Amazon.com became the Berlin Airlift to the book-deprived, with CDs and DVDs following soon after. But regular National Football League coverage was one of just two remaining treats that eluded me. That changed on Sept. 13, 2006. On that day, I discovered Ben & Jerry's ice cream at my supermarket, for about $9 per pint. That morning, I watched an NFL game, live via the Internet, in my home. NFL Enterprises embraced the Internet for the 2006-07 season. Previously the NFL did not allow webcasting of its games, except for text and graphic-based commentary such as GameCast. But this year, international fans could buy a GamePass from YahooÂ to view games live and streamed, at either $249.99 for the season, or $24.99 per week. Apple's iTunes Music Store sold season passes for fans to watch their favorite teams, uploading each game after its completion. I took a different route. I downloaded TVUplayer , which seems to be a mass re-broadcast from a Slingbox MediaÂ device in San Jose, California. There was the NFL, complete with American sportscasters and commercials ("This is our country..."). I ignored that it was 8:30 a.m. and made popcorn. I don't understand how TVUplayer is legal, but if they ever become a paid service, they can have my money. ESPN and ABC disappeared midway through the season, so I lost the Sunday and Monday night games that I used to watch on Monday and Tuesday mornings, respectively, but Sunday night remained sleepless as I watched the day games. If living overseas teaches us anything, it's that in the Internet world, content distribution and licensing methods are grossly obsolete. I would have paid to watch the NFL live years ago -- but they wouldn't take my money. Cinema and DVD release dates seem equally ludicrous when you live in a market where they're meaningless. Piracy makes a lot more sense when you realize that the guy down the street can offer you "Casino Royale" on DVD today, but Hollywood thinks you should wait eight months. Next season promises to be even better for football fans here. On Aug. 8 -- exactly one year prior to the opening of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing -- China will host to its first-ever NFL exhibition game, with the New England Patriots playing the Seattle Seahawks. But when the regular season begins about three weeks later, it will be first down and 10 on the Internet.
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After Jerry Yang and Sue Deckerâs conference call on Tuesday, Yahooâs shares plunged. Now, the companyâs customers and employees are left to wonder whatâs next.
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Fantasy sports fans are about to receive a boost as Intel and Yahoo said Tuesday they would team up to offer real-time sports statistics to Viiv-enabled systems. The service would initially launch with a focus on fantasy football.
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The National Football League is  planning to test live broadcasts of Thursday and Saturday night  games over the Internet to some customers of Verizon  Communications Inc.  and DirecTV Group Inc , NFL  Commissioner Roger Goodell said on Wednesday.
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Yahoo Inc  is planning to  announce cutbacks later this month that will likely lead to  hundreds of job losses at the nearly 14,000 employee company, a  source familiar with the plan said on Monday.
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Everything involving the Washington Nationals stalled yesterday. No uniforms were unveiled. Fans were offered the opportunity to get refunds for tickets, rather than the chance to make new purchases.
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Blog: Yahoo shareholders reject censorship, executive pay proposals, re-elect all board members at shareholder meeting
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The NFL is spending &#36;10 million to help Los Angeles and Anaheim with their plans for bringing the league back to the nation&#039;s second-largest media market.