Still under fire from shareholders upset the company didn’t sell out to Microsoft earlier this year—and still hemorrhaging high-profile personnel—Internet giant Yahoo has announced a reorganization the company says is intended to make it the first choice online site for Internet users, and a “must buy” site for online advertisers. Yahoo plans to centralize its development teams, create a new business unit focussed solely on the United States, and form an “insight strategies team” that will handle data and analysis for the entire company.
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Yahoo Gets Behind OpenID
In what may turn out to be an important development for interoperability between Internet services, online giant Yahoo has announced it plans to support OpenID 2.0, a standard designed to enable single-login access to Internet services—even if they’re operated by different companies. Yahoo plans to introduce beta support for OpenID 2.0 beginning on January 30 across sites like me.yahoo.com and Flickr, and offer OpenID support for the nearly 250 million active Yahoo users worldwide. In theory, that means these users could use their Yahoo IDs to log in to other sites that support OpenID 2.0. Yahoo is hoping to have partners Plaxo and JanRain working with the system from the first day of the public beta.
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