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• Yahoo opens 'chicken coop' green data center

  Yahoo is opening a data center in upstate New York that uses a radical new design to reduce energy costs by 40 percent, the company said Monday.

• Can Yahoo pump new life into a dead horse?

  It takes more than an exclamation point at the end of your name to create excitement. Maybe Yahoo! is finally waking up to that. At least there were signs of it at the company's press event held today at its headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif.

• Yahoo to revamp mail, search

  Yahoo will sharpen its search engine by providing richer results for news and entertainment-related queries, as well as revamp its webmail service by making it faster and more connected to Twitter and Facebook.

• Bing beats Yahoo in search, a symbolic win

  Bing's vault over Yahoo in U.S. search volume should come as no surprise to anyone who's been following the horse race, but it's a symbolic milestone for a baby search engine whose prime directive is to take some of Google's advertising pie.

• Watch out Google, here comes Facebook

  Facebook is giving Google a run for its money.

• New Yahoo site targets issues in November US elections

  Yahoo's news division has launched a new social-networking site that focuses on policy debates driving November's midterm elections in the U.S., with the site giving users a chance to debate and vote on issues.

• Microsoft's big Bing theory targets Google

  With Microsoft and Yahoo officially teaming up in the search market this week, it's time to wait and see if this move could eat into Google's hearty lead over its top opponents.

• iPad gets HTML5 mail via Yahoo

  Yahoo walked into the footsteps of Google, and is releasing an HTML5 version of its Mail service for iPad users. The new Yahoo Mail for iPad is now available to all users of the service through the built-in Safari browser. You can try it for yourself from an iPad here.

• Yahoo grabs search share from Google

  While Google easily hung onto its first-place spot in the U.S. search engine market last month, Yahoo made a surprising, if slight, advance.

• Search Monkey falls victim to Yahoo-Microsoft search deal

  As it starts transitioning to Microsoft's Bing search engine this week, Yahoo has decided to drop Search Monkey, a developer platform designed to let external coders create applications that enhance Yahoo search results.

• Microsoft will try to block Google-Yahoo Japan deal

  A legal battle is brewing between Microsoft and Google for control of Japan's lucrative search market.

• Search engine optimization techniques for hackers

  Any company that does business online knows the importance of mastering search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to get their content atop the Google rankings. It turns out malware pushers care about SEO, too, and at DefCon later this week researchers will show just how big a deal it has become.

• Microsoft cries foul over Google tie-up with Yahoo Japan

  Yahoo Japan's decision to replace Microsoft with Google as its main search partner has been met with protest from Microsoft, which called the deal "anticompetitive."

• Yahoo Japan spurns Bing in favor of Google search

  Google has secured a deal to provide search results and related advertising to Yahoo Japan, Japan's most popular Web site, the two companies said Tuesday.

• Yahoo profit up, but revenue falls short of forecasts

  Yahoo's second-quarter revenue was US$1.60 billion, coming in on the low end of the company's expectations and falling short of analyst predictions.