Yahoo Buying Sports Site Rivals.com
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Yahoo is acquiring Rivals.com, a site for fans of U.S. college and high school teams.
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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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(InfoWorld) - Yahoo Taiwan agreed to buy popular blog site Wretch.cc in a deal the companies expect to push them into the Web 2.0 era in Taiwan. Wretch.cc is the most popular site in Taiwan offering Web services broadly defined as Web 2.0, which entails mixing user-generated content and multimedia applications such as video. The site offers blogs, video blogs, and photo albums, and had announced plans to expand to video publishing similar to YouTube next year. Teaming up with Yahoo will help it invest in new services and give its users access to Yahoo technology and resources, the company said in a statement Thursday. Wretch.cc, Taiwan's most popular blogging site, with around 2.8 million members, will continue to operate independently, it said. Terms of the deal were not disclosed by the companies. Yahoo said the companies hope to finalize the deal early next year. The Yahoo-Wretch.cc deal requires approval by Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission and other regulatory agencies before it can be finalized. The deal highlights the continuing trend of U.S.Internet giants such as Yahoo to expand into new services by buying Web upstarts. Google, for example,Â agreed to pay $1.65 billionÂ for video sharing Web site YouTube earlier this year, whileÂ eBay acquiredÂ Internet phone company SkypeÂ last year in a multi-billion dollar deal. For Yahoo, it's one of many acquisitions, including Flickr, andÂ De.licio.usÂ in recent years. It's also another Yahoo purchase in Asia, where U.S. Internet companies have had a tough time attracting users on their own. Yahoo Taiwan grew out of Yahoo's 2000 purchase of Kimo.com, the most popular portal on the island at the time. And last year, YahooÂ agreed to pay $1 billionÂ in cash and transfer all of its Chinese businesses to Alibaba.com for a 40 percent stake in the company. Jason Chiang, an analyst at Access Rating Online (ARO), said the deal makes sense for both companies, but noted that Yahoo had already seen significant success with its own blog site in Taiwan. Yahoo opened its first blog site for users late last year, but by the end of August, had the second largest number of hits per month after first place Wretch. MSN Spaces took third, ARO said, followed by Yam.com's blogs and Xuite blogs.
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InfoWorld - Yahoo continued its pursuit of online ad rivals with a $300 million purchase of private online advertising firm BlueLithium, the Internet giant announced Wednesday.
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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 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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Fingers in both pies !!!!! Some of Yahoo!'s institutional investors are keen for the proposed Microsoft takeover to go ahead, not because they're pleased with the offer price but because they own shares in both Microsoft and Yahoo!.â¦
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Microsoft Corp. has offered to buy struggling internet search provider Yahoo for $44.6 billion, a merger that would combine two of the technology world's most well-known names into a potentially potent competitor for Google in the lucrative Web search and advertising market.
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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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Microsoft offers to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6bn in cash and shares.
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Yahoo Inc., one of the largest online based companies said, it has bought out privately held e-mail search firm - Stata Labs. This is Yahoo&#39;s move to compete against Microsoft and Google with their e-mail search functionalities.
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Internet giant Yahoo Inc. is buying Rancho Bernardo&#39;s Musicmatch Inc. for $160 million in a deal designed to broaden Yahoo&#39;s appeal to consumers who buy music off the Web.
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Yahoo Buying Facebook for $1 Billion Still think Yahoo is having money problems? According to an article published by the BBC, Yahoo is incredibly close to sealing a one billion dollar deal with Facebook, the social networking site.  A Facebook acquisition would add yet another strong community offering to the Yahoo Social Media family, which now [...]
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Yahoo has apparently offered $900 million for social networking site Facebook, media reports indicate. The offer is still being considered and negotiations said to be ongoing.
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Online search engine Ask Jeeves Inc. has bought Bloglines, a top Web log index and Internet news funnel, in its latest bid to gain ground on more popular rivals Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.
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Internet portal Yahoo, Inc., of Sunnyvale, says it&#39;s buying Musicmatch, Inc., of San Diego, which sells personalized music software and services, for about $160 million in cash.
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Business & money: Online search firm Yahoo, subject to takeover interest from Microsoft, tells of rival offer from News Corp