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In a letter to the Yahoo board, Chairman Roy Bostock announces that he won't be seeking re-election at the next shareholder's meeting. Is Bostock stepping down? Or is it more like jumping ship?

Only a few days after killing off ten mobile apps, Yahoo unveiled an Apps search tab.

Be it an act of desperation, a shedding of excess baggage, or the ire of an activist new leader, Yahoo unloaded some weight this week. In an effort to start the new year off fresh, the company announced its retirement of ten mobile apps with the promise to replace the well with something, supposedly, even better. Believe it when we see it? 

A shot was heard 'round the world this week, as Microsoft, Google, AOL, Yahoo!, and Facebook teamed to lead the fight against email spam scandals. It's news even the least savvy of Internet consumers can understand. Finally, justice for all! Or at least a step in the right direction.

A few months after firing its CEO, Yahoo! finally appeared to be getting back on track. Now company co-founder and former CEO Jerry Yang has announced his resignation from the Board of Directors and all other positions with the company, effective immediately.

Former PayPal President Scott Thompson will become Yahoo CEO as of January 9, 2012.

The western trenches of the smartphone war are empty. Pretty much every user has picked their side and gone home. It is time for the makers to start improving on features and add what users really want from their phones, rather than play out a pointless specification war.

You may have been hearing the news that RSS is dead every so often. But the protocol for sharing and syndicating content is quite resilient, and is still a popular means of distributing content. However, with Facebook disabling RSS importing in its Notes feature, is this yet another proverbial nail in the coffin for RSS?

It’s a “corner the market strategy" in on-line ads that just might work. Today Yahoo!, Microsoft and Amazon joined in an Internet troika with hopes that ad sharing among their respective customers will boost both efficiency and revenue, creating a virtual “Maginot line” of defense against the Facebook and Google advertising onslaught. 

But can a unity and customer sharing strategy stand up against the power of social networking technology, delivering online ads on a rocket ship growth trajectory that’s gone from US$ 145 million in 2007 to a projected US$ 2.01 billion by the close of 2011, eclipsing market leader Yahoo in the process?

While some people were speculating that Yahoo! would be up for sale soon, the company was lining up an agreement to buy interclick, a proprietary advertising and technology solutions provider.

This might be an especially scary Halloween for creators of news and social readers such as Flipboard and Pulse. In the next month, they are going to have to battle two giants. Good luck with that.

Yesterday we discussed the leaders of The Forrester Wave: Web Analytics, Q4 2011, a report that highlights who's who in the market. This time around we're here with a review of the strong performers and contenders: Google, AT Internet and Yahoo. 

After sacking its CEO Carol Bartz yesterday, it now seems like Yahoo is putting itself on the market for potential acquisition.

Have you fired up a web browser with the intention of finding some important piece of information quickly, but Yahoo (news, site) opens as your home page and, before you know it, you’ve spent 15 minutes reading articles from the Today box at the top of the page? Apparently you are not alone.

Reports are circulating that Yahoo (news, site) will finally be announcing its commercial Hadoop spinoff company to compete with Cloudera (news, site). In a nod to the competition, Yahoo is supposed to call the new company HortonWorks, for the elephant in the Dr. Seuss classic, Horton Hears a Who.