Yahoo and Google will Turn E-Mail Into a Social Network

Google and Yahoo are moving to to turn their e-mail systems and personalized home page services (iGoogle and MyYahoo) into social networks.

Web-based e-mail systems already contain much of what Facebook calls the social graph — the connections between people. Yahoo and Google realize that they have this information and can use it to build their own services that connect people to their contacts.

Joe Kraus, who runs Google’s OpenSocial project, he said: “We believe there are opportunities with iGoogle to make it more social.”

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Man sues Yahoo and Google over their names

A man in has filed a lawsuit claiming Yahoo and Google stole their names from Tanzanian tribes. An he claims he is a member of both tribes.

The lawsuit states that Google was taken from the Gogo tribe, and Yahoo from the Yao tribe. The claim is asking for $10,000 be paid to each tribe member for the past three generations.

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Microsoft to buy Yahoo

The New York Post reports that Microsoft is urgently trying to buy Yahoo in part because it lost the opportunity to buy DoubleClick.

"They're getting tired of being left at the altar," said one banking source who has recently had talks with Microsoft. "They now seem more willing to extend themselves via a transaction to get into the game."

Wall Street sources put a roughly $50 billion price tag on Yahoo!

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Yahoo to Offer Unlimited Storage on Free E-Mail Accounts

Yahoo has announced plans to offer unlimited e-mail storage to its customers starting in May, upping the ante in the free e-mail space where Google offers 2.8GB for free and Microsoft 2GB.

"We are giving them no reason to ever have to delete old e-mails," Yahoo co-founder David Filo told Reuters. "You can keep stuff forever."

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Gmail blocks Yahoo Group emails

Reports come from Google Groups that Yahoo! Group emails are not being delivered to Gmail users.
Seems Google does not like Yahoo Groups much :) . Sources say that Google has been aware of it for 3-4 days and the problem still has not been corrected.

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