Maktoob From Yahoo will be the transitional branding for the acquired Arabic portal, until the Yahoo-Maktoob brand is finalised in the first half of 2010.

SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. is jumping on the Twitter bandwagon in its latest attempt to get people to use its Internet search engine more frequently.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo Inc. is jumping on the Twitter bandwagon in its latest attempt to get people to use its Internet search engine more frequently. Beginning Thursday, Yahoo mines the short messages posted on Twitter to find fresher information about hot topics.

Forty-one year old Jerry Yang, co-founder of US Internet giant Yahoo, might be justified in describing himself as a "dinosaur". He is, after all, one of the "Internet's founding fathers", in the words of an Associated Press report this week.

The launch of a new search engine for a booming online retail site run by Alibaba Group, the owner of Yahoo China, is just one more sign that Taobao.com is taking over roles formerly filled at the group by Yahoo.

Alibaba Group, which owns Yahoo China, is increasingly adding features to retail site Taobao.com that the group formerly reserved for Yahoo.

Yahoo has enhanced its Web search engine's news "shortcuts" by adding Twitter posts, photos and videos to them, the company announced Thursday.

Many of you have probably already seen answers.yahoo.com, Yahoo!'s new portal for "crowdsourcing" all your burning questions. It seems like a great idea, right? Anybody can ask any question, and then anyone in the world who sees the question ...

Yahoo has added a new feature to its search service, which it hopes will improve the coverage of breaking news.

The newly merged company is eyeing 80 million Arab users by the end of 2011.