Jerry Yang

'Maktoob From Yahoo' focuses on building sales, monetisation

Maktoob From Yahoo will be the transitional branding for the acquired Arabic portal, until the Yahoo-Maktoob brand is finalised in the first half of 2010. This was revealed by Ahmad Nassef, Vice-President of Maktoob Group and...

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Final farewell to worst deal in history AOLTime Warner

AOL and Time Warner have finally called it quits. Gerald "Jerry" Levin, chairman of Time Warner, the media giant which had been formed 10 years earlier from the $14bn (£8.4bn) combination of Time Inc and Warner Communications;...

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Taking the web to new heights

Viviane Reding, EU commissioner for the information society and media. It was able to attract $8 billion in foreign direct investment over the last four years and offer mobile technology to 54 million subscribers, in addition...

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Yahoo unveils 'Shortcut' news tool

Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Friday 20 November 2009 at 03:23:00 Search component will display news, tweets with results Yahoo has added a new feature to its search service which the company hopes will improve...

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Jordan King, Yahoo execs discuss cooperation

His Majesty King Abdullah on Wednesday met with Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang and several top executives from the US-based Internet giant, which recently acquired the Amman-based web portal Maktoob.com. At the meeting,...

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Egypt creates first Arabic domain name

By Emma Woollacott Monday, 16 November 2009 04:42 Egypt is launching the first internet domain name to use the Arabic script, following ICANN's decision to allow non-Latin top level domains. The new suffix is pronounced 'masr',...

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Mohammed Bin Rashid meets Jerry Yang of Yahoo!

Dubai, Nov 03rd, 2009 (WAM): Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, in the presence of Dubai Crown Prince Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum,...

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Yahoo's Bartz Shuffles the Exec Deck, Filling Audience and Other Top Slots; Is the Board Next for...

by Kara Swisher Posted on November 18, 2009 at 2:00 PM PT Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is making some substantive changes in her exec ranks, since she did a massive restructuring of its staff in late February, according to sources...

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Gmarket Eclipses eBay in Asia

The California-based online seller is a "setting sun" in China and Korea, while Gmarket—owned in part by Yahoo—is rising in the East ) may be the global powerhouse in the Internet auction arena, but it has struggled mightily in...

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Egypt takes '.masr' domain

SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt (AP) Egypt applied for the first Internet domain written in Arabic on Monday. Tarek Kamel, information and technology minister, announced Egypt's intent Sunday at a conference grouping Yahoo's cofounder...

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