Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has hinted for several months that it would be buying more companies and it’s finally made an acquisition—buying up social sports startup Citizen Sports, which it says will compliment Yahoo Sports, the top sports site in the U.S. And, indeed, the move immediately gives Yahoo clout in…

T-Mobile USA executives explained that it abruptly ended its year-old exclusive search deal with Yahoo, and replaced it with Google (NSDQ: GOOG), because it is what their subscribers wanted. “It was customer led; the Google brand is associated with Internet and search,” Ian McKerlich, T-Mobile’s director of mobile web and…

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) may have lost its exclusive search deal with T-Mobile USA, but it is banking on a major reorganization to help recharge the company’s mobile efforts. The changes, which involves breaking up the mobile group and redeploying those employees across the company’s individual product groups, is the result…

T-Mobile USA has ended its year-old exclusive search deal with Yahoo, and has replaced the company with its chief rival—Google (NSDQ: GOOG). The deal shifts the U.S. mobile search dominance away from Yahoo and in favor of Google, which now works with two of the top four carriers. The hand-off…

Mitch Lazar, Yahoo’s European Mobile managing director, is stepping down from his post after working at the company for four and a half years. Lazar marks one of many recent departures from Yahoo’s mobile group. Over the past year-or-so, departures range from all the way at the top, like Marco…

AT&T (NYSE: T) is gearing up to launch the Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Backflip, its first Android device, on Sunday, and with it comes a little surprise: The Google-powered phone has been stripped of its flagship search engine, and instead comes loaded with Yahoo. The removal of Google’s search by AT&T…

The long and rough road is still a long way to go, but they’ve at least started on it: Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo have received clearance for their search agreement, “without restrictions,” from both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission, and will now focus on starting…

There’s really no major surprises when it comes to the big players on the mobile web, according to two reports released today. In fact, all of the top destinations are already major internet brands, unlike the mobile applications in which some small companies have made a name for themselves. Nielsen…

So will 2010 finally be the year that mobile ad spending lives up to the hype? Depends on who you talk to. Third-party researchers like Juniper Research, and agencies like OgilvyOne say there are still major hurdles to clear. But there’s a reason that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) spent $750 million…

Yet another management shuffle at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). Only ten months after being promoted to global head of Yahoo Mobile, David Ko is now also gaining responsibility for all of Yahoo’s content sites in North America, including News, Sports, and Finance, we have confirmed with the company. AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher…

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) will shut down its four-year-old Yahoo Go service at the beginning of next year, so that it focus on building services in the browser and applications for high-end smartphones, like the iPhone and Android. Yahoo Go was a downloadable application that provided access to Yahoo’s search, email…

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) continues to push ahead with mobile search distribution deals, despite its search agreement with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT). The latest example: The company has displaced Google to become the default search provider for German mobile operator O2 Germany; O2 will also integrate Yahoo properties into its mobile portal.…

At CTIA’s Wireless I.T. and Entertainment show last week, 15,000 people from the industry gathered in San Diego. While many people said the show felt smaller, it was the same size as last year, according to CTIA officials. And, for those of you who didn’t have time to catch all…

Yahoo’s head of mobile David Ko (pictured) said today that if consumers use that visit Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) on the PC and from their phone, they end up spending 82 percent more time with the company’s various web properties. That reaffirms what other online companies have said recently. Last month,…

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is making a big smartphone push, with a trio of iPhone apps for three of its most popular products: Yahoo Finance, Flickr, and Yahoo Fantasy Football. The Flickr app lets users upload and tag photos or videos onto the site directly from their phones. That should be…

*Yahoo* vet Brad Garlinghouse, the author of the infamous Peanut Butter Manifesto, is back in the portal business—and in a big way. Garlinghouse, who left Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) last year (part of that company’s brain drain), is joining AOL (NYSE: TWX) as president of Internet and Mobile Communications, spearheading the…

One of the conditions of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Microsoft’s search pact was that Yahoo would be able to continue using its own search for mobile devices, and going forward it would have the option to use Microsoft’s technology if they wished. So, the question is, will Yahoo replace its…

It seems like a Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) employee was too eager to jump on the Anti-Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) bandwagon, and now the company is scrambling to repair relations with the iPhone-maker. In a post titled “And so we wait…on Apple,” Yahoo’s Sarah Bacon wrote on the Yahoo Messenger blog that…

Last week, we reported a list of the six largest mobile advertising networks—with the caveat that the data may not be correct. Well, indeed, it was a bit off, but for slightly different reasons than we thought. After rolling with the information from Nielsen (via Mobile Marketer), our sources contacted…