Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is giving its Rivals.com draft sports site responsibility for programming content for collegiate and prep sports, Sports Business Journal (sub. req.) reports. Up to this point, coverage of those sports had been on the general Yahoo Sports portal. The pages will be on the Rivals site starting Tuesday, more than a year after Yahoo bought the site for about $100 million.

Yahoo's (NSDQ: YHOO) ad deal with Google should help it monetize certain queries better, but analysts have wondered whether Yahoo risks hollowing out its own ad business, as buyers view Google as a one-stop shop. Yahoo has been quick to dismiss the notion that the deal makes it irrelevant, and of course, Google will only have access to limited inventory. Along with the company's latest 10-Q, the ...

Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO) and POLITICO announced today that they will team up with The Denver Post and St. Paul Pioneer Press to hold a series of public forums during the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Colorado and Republican National Convention in Minnesota. The series will include eight morning breakfast panels, to be held Aug. 25-28 in Denver and Sept. 1-4 in St. Paul, and will feature ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo's (YHOO.O) annual investor meeting on Friday will be a magnet for discontent over the company's failure to reach a merger deal with Microsoft (MSFT.O) and complaints about the company's past performance.

In an effort to compete against Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and hoping other developers can help it get some search mojo back, Yahoo will let developers, general users (and even rivals) build customized search services on top of its core engine. The new service is called "Build Your Own Search," or BOSS. Besides search, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is also unlocking its image and news databases to let outsiders ...

In a major step forward in search technology, Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) is working with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) to make Flash files searchable in online search. The project will enable searches on Flash content to return text and links, which can then be indexed, and hence available in search results for the users. Content from a Flash application or even a game or advertisement will ...

In a major step forward in search technology, Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) is working with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) to make Flash files searchable in online search. The project will enable searches on Flash content to return text and links, which can then be indexed, and hence available in search results for the users. Content from a Flash application or even a game or advertisement will ...

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo (YHOO.O) on Monday sought to rally shareholder support in the face of a proxy battle with billionaire Carl Icahn, saying the activist investor had an "ill-defined plan" for the future of the Internet company.

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo (YHOO.O) on Monday sought to rally shareholder support in the face of a proxy battle with billionaire Carl Icahn, saying the activist investor had an "ill-defined plan" for the future of the Internet company.

As Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) prepares for its August 1 board election, the company is once again repeating an the argument: it handled the Microsoft negotiations as best it could, and the new deal with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is better than any partial one with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT). As for Carl Icahn, Yahoo is taking the opportunity to trash his track record. The presentation can be seen here, in a ...