yahoo! signs up Arabic transliteration service - ArabianBusiness.com
28 May 2012, 7:47 am
Internet giant yahoo! has signed a deal to acquire a license to Arabic transliteration service Yamli as the firm looks to increase its user base across the Arab world.  The search engine provider said Yamli will be rolled out across all of its ...

yahoo! acquires Yamli's transliteration technology - Gulf News
28 May 2012, 7:04 am
Dubai: yahoo! announced that it has acquired a licence to Yamli's transliteration technology, to be integrated across a number of its products and services. This comes as part of yahoo!'s focus on developing solutions tailored for the Middle East and North ...

yahoo! Caught Giving Five Star Reviews to Its Own iPhone App - Softpedia
28 May 2012, 3:29 am
If yahoo! needed any more trouble as it stands, they’ve got it. In what appears to be a desire to inflict damage upon themselves, yahoo! employees have posted five star reviews on the iTunes App Store for their own Axis web browser, a newly-released app ...

yahoo Updates Axis Chrome Extension, Removes Private Key - PC Magazine
25 May 2012, 1:20 pm
Red-faced, yahoo has released a new version of its Axis browser to fix a serious security flaw that would have allowed attackers to build malicious extensions for Web browsers. If you downloaded the Chrome extension immediately after its launch, you should ...

yahoo leaks private key, allows anyone to build yahoo-signed Chrome extensions - Infoworld
24 May 2012, 1:06 pm
yahoo was forced to release a new version of its Axis extension for Google Chrome after the original one contained a private key that allowed anyone to digitally sign extensions in yahoo's name. Axis is a new search and browsing tool from yahoo ...

Today in Tech: yahoo's amazing new browser (Yes, yahoo) - Fortune Tech
24 May 2012, 11:12 am
-- FORTUNE COVER STORY -- How Tim Cook is changing Apple [FORTUNE] A 14-year veteran of the company, Cook is maintaining, by words and actions, most of Apple's unique corporate culture. But shifts of behavior and tone are absolutely apparent ...

10 Blue Links Be Gone: yahoo Axis Offers Browser & Visual Search Experience - Searchengineland.com
23 May 2012, 10:47 pm
Search launches seem to come in threes. A couple of weeks ago we had Bing Social, then came Google with Knowledge Graph and now yahoo introduces Axis. When I met with yahoo earlier this week to hear about it I received the now familiar speech that yahoo ...

yahoo! moves to reclaim Internet search crown - yahoo!
22 May 2012, 6:52 pm
yahoo! has set out to reclaim the Internet search crown from Google with the release of software that transforms the way users explore the Web using Apple's coveted gadgets. A yahoo! Axis application was introduced for iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touch ...

yahoo under Levinsohn seen shifting to content, advertising - Reuters
22 May 2012, 5:34 pm
SAN FRANCISCO, May 22 (Reuters) - With two of its most distracting conflicts resolved in the past week and a half, yahoo Inc ho pes its new interim chief executive can focus on the biggest challenge of all: turning the company into a ...

Alibaba buys back 20 percent stake held by yahoo for $7.1 billion - msnbc.com
21 May 2012, 9:07 am
SHANGHAI/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chinese Internet entrepreneur Jack Ma is buying back up to half of a 40 percent stake in his Alibaba Group from yahoo Inc for $7.1 billion, in a deal that moves the Chinese e-commerce leader closer to a public listing.