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• Yahoo Search: RIP

  Yahoo started out in 1994 as a ragtag site called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web," named after founders Jerry Yang and David Filo who were at the time students at Stanford University.

• Microsoft-Yahoo search deal: 3 reasons why it makes sense

  The Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. courtship that has been taking place on and off for the past four years had grown as tiresome as the annual Brett Favre retirement watch.

• Yahoo to open research center in Beijing

  Yahoo has built a global research and development base in Beijing that it will formally announce next month, the company said Wednesday.

• Yahoo developer tool identifies locations in apps, docs

  Yahoo has created a technology that simplifies and automates for developers the process of identifying geographical references in the content that their applications process.

• 2008: Yahoo's year to forget

  For Jerry Yang, 2008 was going to be the year when Yahoo's long-awaited technology and business turnaround began in earnest.