Internet giants will postpone implementation of their joint advertising deal to give antitrust lawyers at the Justice Department more time to review the agreemenT.
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Yahoo has announced today that it will bring its oneConnect social address book application to Apple’s App Store to work on both the iPhone and iPod touch. Yahoo one Connect
With Yahoo! oneConnect you’ll be free to use all your favorite communications tools and services to connect with anyone, at anytime. From IM or text, email or social networks; Yahoo! oneConnect intends to integrate all the ways you communicate into a unique, mobile experience. Imagine having all your contact information at your fingertips; email, phone numbers, text, and IM addresses; in one location—your phone.
Yahoo is shutting down its social-networking experiment, Yahoo Mash, after only a year in business.An e-mail to Mash members from Yahoo community manager Matt Warburton read, "Thank you for trying out our Mash Beta service. We hope you had fun with it. Please note that we will shut down Mash on September 29, 2008. As a result, your current profile on Mash will no longer be available."
Yahoo Mash Shutting Down
Yahoo and Adobe are partnering to allow publishers to run dynamically generated ads on PDF files posted on the Web or distributed via e-mail, opening up a new frontier in online advertising. Yahoo, Adobe Team to Drop Online Ads into PDFs
Until now, publishers have been able to embed only static ads on PDF files, but Yahoo and Adobe are developing a system to make those documents display contextually relevant ads delivered on the fly from Yahoo's inventory at any given time.
The benefit for advertisers: They get a new channel for their ads. Readers will benefit when publishers offer for free documents that they previously charged a fee for, or that they simply didn't make available online.
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