Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and big directory publisher Dex One are expanding their local advertising partnership, which lets advertisers who buy listings on Dex One’s DexKnows search site place their ads on Yahoo Local search results as well. The deal comes as Yahoo is renewing focus on local ad sales and…

Steve Boom is best known for his 10-year stint at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), where he was repsonsible for the company’s mobile products, and while he hasn’t necessarily gone anywhere, he’s nabbed a more prominent role at Loopt, the location-based mobile company that has been more recently overshadowed by newcomers, like…

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:»  YouTube is negotiating with the major movie studios to launch a streaming video service, which would include new releases and could launch as soon as the end of the year. If this all sounds familiar, that’s because there were similar…

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Corp. co-founder Paul Allen is suing Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and nine other companies indirectly through his firm Interval (NSDQ: IILG) Licensing alleging that the technology giants are violating patents developed at a lab in Silicon Valley that he financed more than a decade ago,…

Over the last year, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has talked repeatedly about the importance of both local content and local advertising. But, while the company has announced local ad partnerships with Gannett (NYSE: GCI) and direct marketer Valassis, it’s been mostly quiet about bringing new local content to its sites. That…

China e-commerce site Alibaba has acquired eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) auction management provider Auctiva. This is the Hong Kong company’s second U.S.-based purchase in less than two months. In June, Alibaba bought Vendio, another eBay auction manager based in San Mateo, CA. Both deals are part of Alibaba’s plans to invest…

Appolicious, the app directory site founded by former Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) News head Alan Warms, is broadening its ties to Warms’ former employer. Appolicious is launching a new site dedicated to helping people find third-party apps that work on Yahoo sites, including the homepage and Yahoo Mail. The company is…

Enough with Yahoo’s spate of small-scale deal making; Stifel Nicolaus analyst Jordan Rohan suggests in a report today that Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) should either buy Hulu or take a “significant stake” in the video site, saying that Hulu’s reported interest in an IPO opens it up to other types of…

Very heavily-backed online textbook rental service Chegg has made what is apparently its first acquisition: college course planning site CourseRank. CourseRank, which was founded at Stanford as a class project three years ago and has since expanded to 175 colleges, features a planner which students can use to organize their…

Microsoft’s Bing search engine isn’t getting much branding play on the “powered by Bing” Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) search result pages, which are making their debut this week. Do a search on Yahoo, and you’ll need a magnifying glass to figure out that the results are actually coming from Microsoft (NSDQ:…

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:»  Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) may be looking to buy CafeMom for $100 million. [AllThingsD] »  Google (NSDQ: GOOG) TV was heralded with great excitement this summer on the part of early adopters, but TV partners remain cool to the idea. [WSJ]…

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is shuffling the top management of its MSN portal, six months after rolling out a major redesign of the site. The company has hired Ted Cahall, who left his post as CTO of AOL (NYSE: AOL) in January, as its new corporate vice president of MSN.

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Japan has purchased Cirius Technologies, the Japanese mobile ad technology company behind the AdLocal mobile ad network, we have confirmed. The ad network, which debuted in the U.S. late last year, lets advertisers target their ads based on the physical location of mobile phone users.

For such a potentially beneficial addition, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) certainly isn’t shouting about its new English Premier League video highlights, which debuted in Britain this weekend. On the Monday morning after the league’s opening weekend, there’s no mention of the videos on Yahoo’s UK homepage at all.

Six months after sales chief Joanne Bradford left for Demand Media, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is finally filling the void left by her departure—sort of. Instead of replacing Bradford, as Yahoo had said it was trying to do, four senior ad executives will now report directly to Yahoo Americas head Hilary…

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) acknowledges that its pageviews are dropping—but not as much as comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) has said they are. In a press release, the company says that comScore mistakenly underreported its U.S. pageviews by more than one billion and its duration metrics by more than 850 million minutes, meaning…

In a hit to both Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and major shareholder Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Yahoo Japan says it will use Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to power search on its site. In passing over Microsoft, Yahoo Japan CEO Masahiro Inoue said the company’s search technology was not “sufficiently strong enough for its…

The market is very unimpressed with Yahoo’s worse-than-expected results. The company’s stock is down nearly 8 percent, and in a series of reports, analysts say they are “worried,” “frustrated,” and “concerned” about the company’s tepid revenue growth and don’t see a comeback immediately ahead. A sampling of the commentary follows.

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz acknowledged during the company’s conference call that neither the company’s search ad business or its display ad business had performed as well as Yahoo had wanted. Bartz said however that the company didn’t get the sense that there was a slowdown in the online…