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Week of May 7, 2007

May 10, 2007
Yahoo wants to improve its reach with users
McAfee and Watts said they were attracted to the university-style environment at Yahoo Research, which accommodates collaboration with outside academics. The two men will be joining other notable researchers and research fellows at Yahoo, including Andrei Broder, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Larry Tesler, Andrew Tomkins, Michael Schwartz and Ricardo Baeza-Yates. Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo Research said "having researchers who aren't focused just on computer science will not only help Yahoo improve its product and service development, but could lead to significant advances in the development of technologies underlying the Web."

May 8, 2007
Will Yahoo invest its money and manpower more wisely?
Overall, Yahoo can probably invest its money and manpower more wisely by focusing on social media vehicles and search-powered channels that could further expand the reach of their new sponsored search technology in its Yahoo Panama search platform.

May 7, 2007
Yahoo and Microsoft need to keep pace with rival Google
While Microsoft and Yahoo have discussed a deal in the past more than once, sources say there is a renewed urgency on the part of both companies to keep pace with rival Google.

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