comScore today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace.

Yahoo! announced the general availability of Fire Eagle, an open platform that helps users take their location to the Web while giving them the ability to easily control how and where their location data is shared.

HP, Intel and Yahoo! announced the creation of a global, multi-data center, open source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing research and education. The goal of the initiative is to promote open collaboration among industry, academia and governments by removing the financial and logistical barriers to research in data-intensive, Internet-scale computing.

Zimbra, a Yahoo company announced the release of Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop Beta.

comScore released its monthly analysis of U.S. consumer activity at the top online properties for June 2008 based on data from the comScore Media Metrix service. Content categories showing gains in June were heavily leisure-oriented, including online gaming, travel, entertainment – movies and lotto/sweepstakes. But category gains were modest in a month in which the total number of Internet users decreased slightly and time spent online per user declined 4 percent.

comScore released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In June 2008, Americans conducted 11.5 billion core searches, representing a 7-percent gain versus May.

Yahoo! announced that Yahoo! Games will offer ad-supported downloadable games from the top casual games publishers.

Yahoo! today introduced a new open Web services platform, Yahoo! Search BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service), which gives third parties an unprecedented level of access to Yahoo! Search Technology, including the ability to re-rank and control the presentation of Web search results.

comScore today released an overview of activity at the financial news & research site category, which attracted more than 64 million U.S. visitors in May, an increase of 35 percent versus year ago.

Getty Images and Flickr announced a collaboration that unites the authenticity of images from the Flickr community with Getty Images’ imagery collections, photographic expertise and experience in licensing digital media.

comScore released findings on the Asia-Pacific market from its report “The State of the Global Internet with a Focus on Asia,” which will be presented via free Webcast from Singapore and Japan in July.

Google and Adobe bring us a news that could bring hope to flash sites owners, as the two companies improved the algorithm used to crawl and index these sites.

comScore released its ranking of the top search properties in the Asia-Pacific region based on data from its comScore qSearch 2.0 service, revealing that Google Sites led the region with 39.1 percent of all searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! Sites (24 percent) and Baidu.com (16.7 percent).

Yahoo! HotJobs introduced two innovative advertising solutions that help recruitment advertisers meet their hiring and branding objectives by delivering more relevant job listings to candidates.

Yahoo! today announced the global availability of two new e-mail domains that will give users the chance to register for the e-mail address or Yahoo! ID they have always wanted.

comScore released April 2008 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, revealing that U.S. Internet users viewed 11 billion online videos during the month, with YouTube.com accounting for more than 4 billion of that total.

Google announced that it has reached an agreement that gives Yahoo! the ability to use Google’s search and contextual advertising technology through its AdSense for Search and AdSense for Content advertising programs.

Yahoo! announced a strategic, multi-year relationship for online display and video advertising with Walmart.com.

Yahoo! today announced the filing of a lawsuit against “Yahoo! Lottery Spammers” for unlawfully sending e-mail messages to Internet users for the purpose of deceiving them into believing that they have won a lottery or prize offered by Yahoo!.

74% of U.S. consumers say mobile phone usage on airplanes should be restricted to features that do not require talking.

Yahoo and McAfee today announced a partnership to deliver a safer Web search experience through Yahoo! Search.

In celebration of Earth Day, Yahoo! announced the launch of a “Free Is Good” campaign aimed at motivating its online community of more than 500 users worldwide to reduce their impact on the environment through reuse.

Yahoo! and MLB Advanced Media, LP (MLBAM), the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball, today announced a three-year video and advertising partnership that includes access to out-of-market MLB games on Yahoo! Sports.

Yahoo! today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Tensa, more commonly known as IndexTools, a provider of Web analytics software for online marketing.

Yahoo, one of the most known companies on the Internet and survivor of the dot-com crash back in the 90′, has lately been all over the news since it’s to be taken over by Microsoft for a staggering $44.6 billion. But now, Yahoo shows the world it doesn’t need to be taken over as it can manage in its own.