Earlier today Tom Coates, head of the Fire Eagle team, announced the release of Fire Eagle, which had been in private beta. The offering is intended to be something of a clearinghouse or "switchboard" (Coates' w

Yahoo and Politico said today they will partner with The Denver Post and St.Paul Pioneer Press to hold a series of public forums during the Democratic National Convention in Colorado and Republican National Convention in Minnesota.

Kara Swisher, last seen immersed in the great Yahoo hanging chad scandal, is back with news that will be more pertinent to Yahoo employees and shareholders: The company, she says, is considering yet another round of cuts.

It wasn't what anyone expected to see while perusing a news article. But there, in the final paragraph of an online story, Yahoo's automated system was inviting readers to browse through photos of underage girls.

Yahoo has partnered with LucidMedia to bring contextual display ad targeting capabilities to the company's RightMedia ad exchange. Advertisers will be able to contextually target display ads according to 63 vertical ad categories.

Yahoo executives win re-election at its annual shareholders meeting after defending their handling of negotiations with Microsoft.

Yahoo is making a number of changes to its default search experience tonight to add more structured data to results. Yelp, Yahoo Local and LinkedIn SearchMonkey widgets are being added to search results automatically.

Yahoo shares are down 4% today after news that the company's second-largest investor is furious with the company and may pull his support. Fund manager Gordon Crawford reportedly feels that Yahoo mishanded the acquisition bid by Microsoft.

Yahoo Inc. said Monday it reached agreement to settle a proxy battle with activist shareholder Carl Icahn, whereby it will expand its board by two members and appoint Mr. Icahn to the board.

Even as Yahoo loses execs by the dozens, they continue to hire new blood. Blaine Cooke, the controversial (and some say very talented) former chief architect at Twitter, is now a rails developer at Yahoo.