Yahoo today launched what some are calling a significant overhaul to its home page. Yahoo says the new home page is designed to help you stay on top of what is going on in your world, and on the rest of the planet. What the search company has really done, however, is tweaked its old design and added some...

YAHOO board member Carl Icahn has publicly supported a search deal with Microsoft, which could be very lucrative for Yahoo. Mr Icahn declined to comment on the state of any negotiations between Yahoo and Microsoft. He had tried to broker a partnership between the two companies last year, when talks on...

Yahoo will launch a new tool on Tuesday to help people organize research they do on the Yahoo search engine. The Yahoo Search Pad will automatically save search results when it notices the user is doing research, which should make it easier for people to come back to a project on subsequent days to do more...

Yahoo has released a test version of a Delicious social bookmarking extension for Chrome, one of the strongest indications so far that the technology foundation is coming to fruition in Google’s browser. Extensions still must be specifically enabled through a command-line switch on the developer...

Yahoo has filed a lawsuit against the NFL Players Association, contending that it shouldn’t be forced to pay royalties for using players’ names, statistics, and photos in its online fantasy football game because the information is publicly available. The complaint (PDF), which was filed Monday...