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Today MLB Advanced Media and Yahoo! announced an advertising and video distribution partnership, which will bring access of out of market Major League Baseball games to Yahoo Sports. Also, this three-year partnership will make MLB.TV available live on Yahoo Sports through the 2010 MLB season. As for advertising, Yahoo will manage the […]

Today Google, Yahoo and MySpace announced an agreement to form the OpenSocial Foundation to help make sure that OpenSocial is an “open, community-governed specification for building social applications across the web.” The OpenSocial Foundation is an independent non-profit organization, and is formed to provide guidelines around documentation, intellectual property, technology and other types […]

Bebo and Intercasting Corp, which is a leading platform that helps connect mobile carriers with social networking sites, have announced a partnership which will allow Bebo to offer social networking to their 40 million plus members on their mobile phones. Through this partnership Bebo.com will be available on a dedicated mobile application, as […]

 
Yahoo has announced today that they have acquired Maven Networks, a leading online video provider, to help expand on consumer video and advertising on Yahoo.com. Yahoo says that these new video capabilities will help enhance their solutions for advertisers and publishers, with the hopes of making video easier to buy.
Here is the press release:
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Earlier today Yahoo’s board of directors officially announced, though many already knew what the answer was going to be, that they have rejected Microsoft’s proposal because it undervalues the Yahoo! company. Not to be outdone, Microsoft has now responded, saying today in a press release that:
It is unfortunate that Yahoo! has not embraced our […]