Yahoo!-TiVo Deal

The N.Y. Times reports on a pending announcement between Yahoo! and TiVo. Yahoo! moves off the desktop and into the living room. It's mostly about using Yahoo's TV listings to schedule TiVo, but there is a range of other Yahoo!…

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Yelp Gets a Shout From VCs

Yelp, a San Francisco Bay Area local community site with directory listings -- or local directory site with community and social networking -- got some VC money last week. The site, which has national aspirations, exists in an already crowded…

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Man vs. Machine

Here's an interesting article from Sunday's N.Y. Times about Yahoo! and its long-term search strategy. I was at Yahoo! on Friday talking to Local GM Paul Levine about his just-added keynote at ILM:05. He and I discussed a range of…

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What's in a Name?

In the past, RHD has described itself as €œa leading Yellow Pages publisher and directional media company.€ That was the term used in the press release for both Dex and RHD. However, the current earnings announcement describes RHD as €œa…

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AT&T-Yahoo!?

Here's a piece in The N.Y. Times that says SBC will take the venerable name AT&T once the acquisition is approved. One response: Will the AT&T brand support the kinds of Internet-age services that SBC is offering and wants to…

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LookSmart Goes Deep

In a very interesting bid to revive its fortunes and its consumer brand, LookSmart has launched 160 vertical sites on everything from sports to city guides (here's New York, for example). The content comes from Furl, Web crawling and LookSmart's…

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Local Matters Buys AreaGuides

Local content aggregator and affiliate network AreaGuides.net has been acquired by Denver-based Local Matters. This is the first consumer-facing property in the Local Matters portfolio, and CEO Perry Evans expects to substantially enhance the interface and user experience of the…

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