Yahoo said it is shutting down the Summly app, which was downloaded less than one million times, and incorporating its technology into other Yahoo services.
Phone a few months ago to provide pre-installed Yahoo services such as Yahoo Japan Home, Yahoo Japan Auctions and Yahoo Loco to improve its search traffic.
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She also has been revamping the look of Yahoo's existing Web services, from its Yahoo.com Home Page to Yahoo Mail, and creating new apps for mobile devices such as Yahoo Weather.
Yahoo and Nokia are teaming up to provide Yahoo-powered services on the mobile Web.
The more services Yahoo offered, the longer its guests would stay and the more Yahoo could pry into their habits and sharpen efforts to target them.
It recently edged into the black and is the world's most visited Web site if you don't count search services like Yahoo!
Speaking at Yahoo's Sunnyvale, California headquarters, Mayer stressed the importance of personalizing Yahoo's Web services and adapting the company's products to mobile devices, AllThingsD reported.
Photo services from Yahoo's Flickr to Google's Picasa already existed.
One of the largest providers of internet content and search services, Yahoo could end up being acquired by the likes of Microsoft (MSFT) or any of the cash-laden private equity managers, says Miller.
The little brethren of these search giants range from search marketers and optimizers, who advise companies how to design their sites to maximize their rankings on a search results page, to companies that provide the back-office functions to services like Yahoo!
But officials hinted that delivery of Yahoo's content and services over wireless networks is the long-term goal.
One thing it will give Google is a direct competitive offering to personal Web-publishing services such as Yahoo!
Yahoo's two original services, directory and search, now grab only 20% of the Web site's total page views.
In December the company struck a deal with Yahoo to provide mobile Web services to 16 Latin American and Caribbean nations.
They either provide cloud services (Google, Yahoo, Adobe) or support them in some way.
In recent weeks Sky has stopped using Google to provide email services in favour of Yahoo.
Its Instant Messenger service is still inaccessible to similar services from Microsoft and Yahoo.
Over the past year, the volume of spam e-mail from Web-based mail services like Gmail, Yahoo!
It was unclear whether any search technology from Yahoo is powering Etao's search services.
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Andrew Strickman, former senior director, global consumer marketing at Yahoo and now VP brand and creative services at Move Inc.
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The Messages app also supports traditional instant messaging services, including AIM, Yahoo!
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Last month, New York-based United Virtualities released software called HotRecorder that can archive calls over PC-based VoIP services like Skype, AIM, Yahoo!
Connected Life, just started in about Yahoo's interest in providing content and services to users across a range of devices via its new Java-based client running on Motorola, Samsung, Nokia and RIM phones.
Starting this month, Ovi Mail moved from its own platform and began migrating to Yahoo, the fruits of a " worldwide strategic alliance" between the two companies announced in May of last year in which Yahoo agreed to offer its Mail and Chat services to nine million registered Ovi users in exchange for access to Nokia's navigation and map services.
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"We really view it as creating a new computing platform, with business services and big computing farms" powering Yahoo!
Today Yahoo is a digital amusement park with 400 different services.
Other companies, including Google, Yahoo and Apple have similar systems for their own photo services.
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Meanwhile, Yahoo and Google are busily scoring deals to embed their services with the world's biggest carriers.
Millions of people have already set up small web businesses, and millions more will do so, many of them using services provided by eBay, Amazon, Google and Yahoo!
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