Yahoo! today
Yahoo!
Next is an incubation
ground for future Yahoo! technologies currently in their beta testing phase,
similar to Google Labs. It contains forums for Yahoo! users to give feedback to
assist in the development of these future Yahoo! technologies.
In early 2006, Yahoo! offered users the chance to beta test a new
version of the Yahoo! homepage. However, it currently only supports Internet
Explorer and Mozilla
Firefox. Users of other
browsers, such as Opera,
have criticized Yahoo! for this move. Yahoo! says they intend to support additional
browsers in the future.
On August 27, 2007, Yahoo! released a new version of Yahoo!
Mail. It added Yahoo!
Messenger integration (which included Windows Live Messenger due to the
networks' federation) and free text messages (not necessarily free
to the receiver) to mobile phones in the U.S., Canada, India, and the Philippines.[35]
On January 29, 2008, Yahoo! announced that the company was laying
off 1,000 employees, as the company had suffered severely in its inability to
effectively compete with industry search leaderGoogle. The cuts represented 7 percent of the
company's workforce of 14,300. [36]
In February 2008, Yahoo! acquired Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Maven Networks, a supplier of internet
video players and video advertising tools, for approximately $160 million.
On December 10, 2008, Yahoo! began laying off 1,520 employees
around the world as the company managed its way through the global economic
downturn.
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