Independent Yahoo

Source: www.editorsweblog.org --- 10 days ago
Yahoo! News may be considered as a news organization, according to Jessica Barron , director of editorial programming. Unlike online news outlets that aggregate news content from the Web, Yahoo! is not only investing in its own journalists but is also signing agreements with wire services and "traditional" sources. "Our aim is to reach these bigger names and use our reporting talent to break news. We are really going for the kinds of questions that will make news," said Barron."We have been doing a lot of original reporting and we are going to be doing a lot more." The original reporting she refers to include interviews with South Korean president Lee Myung-bak , US leader George W. Bush and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice . Yahoo!'s global audience of 500 million helps to formulate its news judgement, since the outlet pays attention to what stories get most traffic. According to Barron, online readers have shown that they are interested in both hard facts and the human value of stories. Barron intends to make Yahoo! the premier Independent online news source. Source: AFP through IFRA Executive News Service ...

Source: erkansaka.net --- 9 days ago
Yahoo! aims to be "number one" Independent news source By Alisa Zykova Yahoo! News may be considered as a news organization, according to Jessica Barron , director of editorial programming. Unlike online news outlets that aggregate news content from the Web, Yahoo! is not only investing in its own journalists but is also signing agreements with wire services and "traditional" sources. Two dancers act during the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing. Photo: EFE / Bernd Thissen. found in World Watches in Awe as Beijing Olympics Close With Carnival-themed Extravaganza   "Our aim is to reach these bigger names and use our reporting talent to break news. We are really going for the kinds of questions that will make news," said Barron."We have been doing a lot of original reporting and we are going to be doing a lot more." AP’s ethnography of news consumption By Ethan A media group in continuous operation since 1846 may not be the company you should look to for advice on the future of media. Or maybe they should: the Associated Press is both doing well in a digital age (when they’re not making boneheaded moves like pretending that fair use doesn’t exist ) and looking towards the future, trying to figure out its role in the media ecosystem. And they’re carrying out some very interesting research to determine just what their role is going forwards. Reading between the lines Trial by tabloid is never the fairest form of tribunal, an ...

Source: articles.moneycentral.msn.com --- 30 days ago
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Yahoo Inc. confirmed late Tuesday that Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc., an Independent voting intermediary, made errors in reporting votes from Yahoo's annual shareholder's meeting on Aug. 1. When Broadridge reported voting results for "withholds," a truncation error occurred in reporting share numbers that exceeded eight digits, according to Yahoo. The board seat tabulation has been corrected to 33.7% withheld shares for Chief Executive Jerry Yang from 14.6% and 39.6% withheld for Chairman Roy Bostock rather than 20.5%. ...

Source: www.computerworld.com --- 30 days ago
Jack Ma, the top executive at Alibaba.com, said that the China-based e-commerce company will remain Independent no matter what happens to Yahoo, which is its largest shareholder. ...

Source: news.cnet.com --- 28 days ago
A month after the launch of BOSS--an application programming interface that lets developers build a customized search engine atop Yahoo's technology--the company is showing off mashups built using the product. Yahoo's Build Your Own Search Service interface allows Web users to build an Independent search Web site, send ... ...

Source: news.cnet.com --- 28 days ago
SAN FRANCISCO--As you might expect, search engine marketers aren't crazy about how the Google-Yahoo-Microsoft power struggle has played out. It's not that they disapprove of Yahoo remaining Independent of Microsoft. It's just that Google's search market share, at nearly 70 percent in June, has only grown ... ...

Source: dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com --- 29 days ago
From our colleagues at Bits: The revised tally of Yahoo’s board election released Tuesday showed a much stronger level of dissatisfaction among investors than previously reported. Many analysts said the new count was more aligned with what they had been hearing from shareholders. But to understand how deep the discontent is with Independent shareholders, it’s worth doing [...] ...

Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- 1 day ago
Although WPP Group and its ad holding company rival Publicis Groupe have been concentrating more in Asia and other emerging markets for their digital acquisitions lately, it seems there are still a few Independent targets to be found in the U.S. One of the remaining ones was Seattle's PBJS, which was just picked up by Publicis. Terms weren't disclosed. The five-year-old shop concentrates on on "multichannel events" and branded entertainment, including webcasting and video production. The main thing that drew Publicis to PBJS was access to the agency's biggest client: Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT). That could bring more closeness between Microsoft and Publicis, which is working with the software giant, as well as Yahoo ( NSDQ: YHOO), Google ( NSDQ: GOOG) and AOL ( NYSE: TWX) on an open source ad network. The 26-person PBJS will continue to operate independently, though it will exist within Publicis Events Worldwide unit. Founder and CEO Bob Bejan will remain in that role, reporting to John Farrell, President & CEO of SAMS. Release (PDF) ...

Source: blogs.wsj.com --- 30 days ago
Not much of anything has gone Yahoo’s way this year. “So, you didn’t think the digital gods would let it have more than one weekend of good news, did you,” writes Kara Swisher over at All Things Digital. The latest: Capital Research Global Investors asked Independent vote counter Broadridge Financial Solutions Monday to look into the [...] ...

Source: www.hardocp.com --- 30 days ago
So another big Yahoo shareholder is stirring things up. Capital Research Global Investors is demanding a review of last week’s board vote. I’m not sure what they are expecting but unless they are ousting the entire board, what can they possibly hope to change? Capital Research wants Independent vote counter Broadridge Financial Solutions to make sure the fund's votes on the Yahoo directors were accurately transmitted, Freadhoff said. He declined to discuss how Capital Research intended to vote or what prompted the request for a review. Comments ...

Source: www.paidcontent.org --- 31 days ago
Michael Silver, a former veteran exec with the The Tribune Company for two decades, is taking on the new post of executive director of the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium. The post is described as "advisory," though Silver will also be responsible for the management and oversight of the agreements between the Newspaper Consortium's members and Yahoo ( NSDQ: YHOO ). As the point of contact for the members, Silver is also expected to be the public face of the Newspaper Consortium.  At Tribune, Silver, who was VP, corporate development there, played a role in handling Tribune's initial investment in AOL ( NYSE: TWX ). Most recently, Silver was an Independent consultant and worked on online listings applications for the entertainment products division of Tribune Media Services. The announcement of his hiring comes a few days after rival newspaper alliance quadrantOne tapped Andy Ellenthal as its permanent CEO. QuadrantOne is backed by Tribune, Gannett ( NYSE: GCI ), Hearst and NYTCo ( NYSE: NYT ). Release Check out the best business jobs in digital media. Go here for paidContent.org Job Board. ...

Source: www.searchenginejournal.com --- 33 days ago
So, there you go, amidst some tongue-lashing and verbal beating more particulary thrown at Roy Bostock, Yahoo’s nominees to the Board of Directors, all of them were re-elected by the stockholders. The stockholders also approve the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers as Yahoo’s Independent registered public accounting firm but rejected the proposed pay-for-superior performance principle for executive compensation, [...] ...

Source: www.techmeme.com --- 29 days ago
Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch Blog : Yahoo Confirms Vote Error, Yang and Bostock Not Liked So Much After All   —  Yahoo has confirmed that a ‘tabulation error’ occurred in the shareholder vote count conducted by Broadridge Financial Solutions, the Independent firm hired to do the job.  Turns out, just over half of the shareholders felt … ...

Source: en.wikinews.org --- 19 days ago
Royal0165: added Independent source i believe? {{single source}} {{cleanup|Whilst multiple sources are listed, all are simply a copy of the article written by AP. Independent stories would help.}} {{Develop}} {{date|August 16, 2008}} Seven people, including five children and a teenager, have been killed by a house fire in [[w:Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]]. Two teenagers and a 10 year old boy were sent to the hospital for burns. The fire happened around 5:30 AM and the cause is not known of yet. The top of the house was mainly wood and burned easily but the bottom was made of brick. The bodies of the victims were said to be very burned. {{stub}} == Sources == *{{source|url=http://news.Yahoo.com/s/ap/20080816/ap_on_re_us/memphis_fire;_ylt=A0wNcxfnE6dI1GAAiiis0NUE |title=|author=|pub=|date=}} *{{source|url=http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-08-16-0189.html|title=|author=|pub=|date=}} *{{source|url=http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=5594164|title=|author=|pub=|date=}} http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=62273&catid=2 ...

Source: www.bloggingstocks.com --- 29 days ago
Filed under: Management , Yahoo! (YHOO) , Scandals Capital Research Global Investors owns, with related but separately managed funds, around 16% of the outstanding shares of Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO ), and hasn't been too pleased with the leadership of CEO Jerry Yang. So it advised its funds to vote against reelecting him to the board of directors. Now the fund is puzzled that Yang managed to get 85% of the votes cast in election. Given that it meant to withhold its 16% stake from supporting Yang, it's concerned that -1% of the company's other shareholders did the same. Capital Research has hired Independent vote counter Broadridge Financial Solutions to take a look and try to figure out what happened. Yahoo was quick to defuse any conspiracy theories, issuing a statement saying that "Yahoo did not participate in the execution of the votes and was not a party to any errors which may have been made either by a voting institution or a proxy processing intermediary acting on behalf of banks, brokers and institutions." We won't know anything until the results of the Broadridge recount are made public but it sure seems like the shareholder support of Yahoo is less widespread than it seemed. That's understandable given the stock's dismal performance in recent years.   Read  |  Permalink  |  Email this  |  Linking Blogs  |  Comments ...

Source: marcambinder.theatlantic.com --- 20 days ago
From Pew's latest survey : Fox viewers identify themselves as: 39% Republican,   33% Democratic,  22% Independent CNN: 18% Republican, 51% Democratic, 23% Independent (more Democratic than in 2006) MSNBC: 18% Republican, 45% Democratic, 27% Independent (slightly less Democratic than in 2006...really... I know...even with Keith...) Other fun nuggets: ** The Daily Show claims the largest percentage of indpenedents in the survey -- 45%. ** Only 34% of the sample said they read a newspaper the day before the survey, down from 40% in 2006. 37% of the public gets their news online. A lot more Americans get their news from a variety of sources. Local TV news appears to be the biggest. Younger folks use social networking sites for news. ** Rush Limbaugh's audience is 72% male; the audience for religious radio is 69% female. Sunday morning talk shows are split 50-50. ** Search engines are used for news; Yahoo is the top news site.   ** Go us: readership rates for major national magazines have held steady: " Readership rates for news magazines, national news publications and magazines such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic and Harper's Magazine have remained relatively steady in recent years, as newspaper readership has dipped.:"   ...

Source: www.sitepronews.com --- 13 days ago
While Google, Yahoo and Microsoft may be the pay-per-click heavyweight contenders, another strong player is Miva. Offering pay-per-click in the U.S., U.K., France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, Miva is an Independent search network (formerly known as Findwhat) powering over 2 billion search queries a month. You only pay for clicks on your [...] ...

Source: harpers.org --- 3 days ago
One million people fled New Orleans to avoid Hurricane Gustav, which landed in Louisiana as a weakened category-2 hurricane and caused relatively little damage. Mississippi officials ordered people still living in the FEMA trailers erected after Hurricane Katrina to evacuate, and John McCain canceled opening-day ceremonies for the Republican National Convention at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota. “This is a time when we have to do away with our party politics and we have to act as Americans,” said McCain. “Not as Republicans.” Guardian IOL.co.za New York Times USA Today Yahoo! McCain picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, 44, as his running mate. Palin, an evangelical Christian, supports the death penalty, believes that the “jury's still out” on global warming, opposes abortion, and is mother to five children: Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper, and five-month-old Trig, who has Down syndrome. Rumors arose that Bristol, 17, was the actual mother of Trig; in response, Palin announced that Bristol was actually five months pregnant with the child of a man named “Levi” and would soon marry him. Telegraph.co.uk Washington Times Washington Post Independent 1.2 million people were left homeless by monsoon floods in the Indian state of Bihar. BBC . . . ...