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| Feb 25, 2008 | Yahoo Buzz hopes to generate more buzz than BuzzTracker did | Yahoo continues to roll out new services post-Microsoft offer, tonight launching Yahoo Buzz, a popularity-based news aggregator. The site will take into account a number of factors including votes, search frequency and times a story is emai... |
| Feb 6, 2008 | Ask launches BigNews, a buzz-based news aggregator with Digg integration | Search engine Ask.com has launched a new area of their site called Ask BigNews which combines news aggregation with elements of social news site Digg. Ask Big News describes itself as “a search and browse service that helps you find and tra... |
| Sep 14, 2007 | Yahoo buys Buzztracker for $5 million | Yahoo is purchasing a news aggregation site called BuzzTracker for $5 million according to Kara Swisher at AllThingsD. Buzztracker uses algorithms to search through over 110,000 hand-picked web sites, aggregating the most popular and intere... |
| Sep 14, 2007 | Yahoo Makes Tiny Acquisition: BuzzTracker | Yahoo has acquired news site BuzzTracker, a tiny news aggregation site, for somewhere between $2 – $5 million. Alan Warms, CEO of parent company Participate Media, will join Yahoo as Vice President and General Manager of Yahoo News (a job w... |
| Sep 14, 2007 | Al Warms Sells Buzztracker to Yahoo!, Becomes GM Of News | A little over a year ago, I wrote a post about my friend Al Warms’ new web service called Buzztracker. In that post I said: For all of you who like to use buzztrackers like Techmeme and Tailrank comes a new service that may blow out the cat... |
| May 24, 2007 | Blackberry 8300 Hits AT&T June 13…Maybe | We’ll take this one with golf ball sized grain of salt, but a launch date for the Blackberry Curve has been floating around and June 13 seems to be the day we’ll see the latest RIM device hit the streets. There are also rumors about a launc... |
| Oct 10, 2006 | How They Did It | Everyone who reads this blog knows that I love YouTube and am pleased that the founders got such a great outcome for themselves. I posted that last week. I was going to leave this subject to others and move on to more interesting stuff toda... |
| Sep 13, 2006 | NBBC | Lost in all the craziness about iTunes 7, iPod, iTV, and the other Apple announcements yesterday was a pretty signficant announcement out of NBC that may just be a bigger deal in the long run. I don’t think iTunes is going to be my video in... |
| Aug 29, 2006 | Google Office | What can I add to this discussion? I think this may be the most discussed blog story in a long time. Check out this list of links to the story on Buzztracker. That’s 68 links from yesterday alone and Buzztracker only includes the "auth... |
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What has the press written about Yahoo News?
Parsers VC has collected 11 articles mentioning Yahoo News, among them “Yahoo Buzz hopes to generate more buzz than BuzzTracker did” (Feb 25, 2008) and “Ask launches BigNews, a buzz-based news aggregator with Digg integration” (Feb 6, 2008).
Is Yahoo News still active?
Yes, Yahoo News is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 8, 2008.