Yahoo eyeing Facebook (Pioneer Press)

Yahoo eyeing Facebook (Pioneer Press)
Facebook, the social-networking Web site popular with high school and college students, is on the verge of being purchased by Yahoo, according to two sources with knowledge of the deal. Such a transaction, word of which appeared first in the Wall Street Journal, would represent the climax to months of speculation that Facebook, based in Palo Alto, Calif., would be snapped up at a lofty price in a

Yahoo’s pop hook: Download music without limits (Boston Globe)

Yahoo’s pop hook: Download music without limits (Boston Globe)
The latest album from pop singer Jesse McCartney could make David Goldberg a star. Goldberg is general manager of online music sales for Internet giant Yahoo Inc. , and his Yahoo Music Service is selling McCartney’s “Right Where You Want Me” without restrictive antipiracy software. If Yahoo can sell more copies of the album than the dominant iTunes Store, run …

Students compete to market Yahoo (The News & Observer)

Students compete to market Yahoo (The News & Observer)
Internet giant Yahoo is tapping the creativity of Duke University marketing students.