Yahoo Inc. tapped David Ko to replace outgoing mobile chief Marco Boerries.A nine-year Yahoo executive, Ko most recently led Yahoo's business operations globally and previously served as managing director for the company's mobile business in the Asia/Pacific region. He replaces Boerries, who had spearheaded...
The most highly visible executive from Yahoo Inc.'s mobile side has called it quits.Marco Boerries, who had overseen the company's Connected Life division for four years, is stepping down "for personal reasons," a Yahoo representative confirmed via e-mail. According to BoomTown, Boerries sent a...
Yahoo Inc. unveiled an overhauled mobile portal that it hopes will become "your starting point to the Internet."The company launched a beta version of Yahoo Mobile, a wireless Web destination that combines existing Yahoo offerings oneSearch, oneConnect and onePlace as well as the popular...
SEVEN has unveiled its messaging solution for the Android platform that addresses personal and business e-mail on one integrated interface.The solution, which is being showcased at this week's GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, is not only geared to combine a customer's personal and...
More than a year after taking the helm at Yahoo Inc., Jerry Yang is out as the company's board of directors has initiated a search for a new CEO.Yang has been under scrutiny since the $47.5 billion bid by Microsoft Corp. to take over...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo Inc. once again took advantage of the trade-show spotlight, using CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2008 to plug an iPhone version of its oneConnect offering and an expansion of its Blueprint development platform.OneConnect, which was introduced at the Mobile World...
The Justice Department's hiring of prominent lawyer Sandy Litvack to reportedly assist its probe of the advertising tie-up between search-engine giants Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. is fueling speculation that the transaction could be challenged by the Bush administration. The Google-Yahoo...
Yahoo Inc. will serve as AT&T Mobility's on-deck search vendor, and will aggregate both Internet information as well as listings from the carrier's content catalogue - including ringtones, wallpaper and games - into its search results. Yahoo replaces InfoSpace Inc. as AT&T Mobility's search...
Google Inc.'s Internet dominance has grown in recent years as the competition - well, what passes for competition - continues to plod along. But for the long list of Web-based players moving to the new platform, wireless is the wild, wild West.The Mountain View,...
If desperation is the mother of innovation, Yahoo may just be the future of mobile.A pioneer in the Internet's youngest days, Yahoo may now be seriously wounded. Shares of the venerable company are sliding toward the $20 threshold - losing more than 20% in...
Editor's Note: Welcome to On the Margins, a feature for RCR Wireless News' weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week, the RCR Wireless News staff considers events in the wider business world and how they could affect the wireless industry.--Yahoo and Microsoft...
Editor's Note: Welcome to On the Margins, a feature for RCR Wireless News' weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week, the RCR Wireless News staff considers events in the wider business world and how they could affect the wireless industry.--Delta Air Lines...
Anyone looking for more talk of interplanetary colonization during the Day Two keynote surely was disappointed.Wednesday's speakers eschewed Richard Branson's April Fools' Day hijinks in favor of a more traditional approach. Marco Boerries, who heads up Yahoo Inc.'s mobile efforts, used the platform to...
Marco Boerries is the executive VP of Yahoo Inc.'s Connected Life Division, which encompasses the company's mobile, digital home, PC client and broadband teams around the world, including Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0 and Yahoo oneSearch products for mobile.Q: What are the unique challenges...
Yahoo Inc. bulked up its mobile portfolio, unveiling a tool designed to allow users to manage content across the wireless Web.OnePlace uses bookmarks to link to news feeds, Web sites, videos, e-mails and other Web-based offerings. The tool automatically updates content such as sports...
Just one year after tapping Yahoo Inc. to provide search for its mobile browsers, Opera Software is going back to Google Inc.The Norwegian developer said the Internet's dominant player will be the default search engine for Opera Mobile and Opera Mini in every market...
Yahoo continues to serve as the Washington Generals of the Internet -- losing to Google at every turn -- but the company seems to be making all the right moves in mobile. The company's latest coup came last week at the Mobile World Congress...
Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. each announced impressive wins at Mobile World Congress 2008 last week, but it was Yahoo's news that raised eyebrows in the mobile search space.Nokia Corp. said it will begin to include Google's technology with its own mobile search application...
BARCELONA, Spain - Yahoo Inc. claimed it plans to reinvent mobile communications with oneConnect service, a mobile product with an open architecture that aggregates a user's e-mail, instant messaging and text messaging, with what it calls a socially connected address book.A key feature of...
Microsoft Corp.'s proposed acquisition of Yahoo Inc. may be centered on Internet search, but the takeover - if consummated - could make huge waves in the world of wireless.The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant offered $44.6 billion in cash and stock for Yahoo, marking a...
Yahoo Inc. is looking to mobile to help offset its struggling online business.The Internet giant said it will slash 1,000 jobs -- marking a 7% overall reduction in its workforce -- in the wake of a fourth quarter that saw profits plunge nearly 24%....
This "openness" thing is contagious.Yahoo Inc. is the latest to court third-party developers, announcing its intention to "enable and lead a mobile ecosystem" to spur the creation of mobile applications. The company unveiled a developer platform and said it will support "mobile-optimized applications" such...
Editor's Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point of view, with the goal of highlighting what works...
Editor's Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point of view, with the goal of highlighting what works...
