| URL | news.yahoo.com |
|---|---|
| Commercial? | preroll adds 15-30sec |
| Type of site | News |
| Registration | Optional |
| Owner | Yahoo! |
| Created by | Yahoo! |
| Current status | Active |
Yahoo! News is an Internet-based news aggregator provided by Yahoo!. It features Top Stories, U.S. National, World, Business, Entertainment, Science, Health, Weather, Most Popular, News Photos, Op/Ed, and Local news.
Articles in Yahoo! News come from news services, namely Associated Press (AP), Reuters, Agence France-Presse (AFP), Fox News, Christian Science Monitor, NPR, USA Today, CNN.com, CBC News, Seven News, BBC News, and others*.
In 2001, Yahoo! News launched the very first most emailed page on the web.[1] The idea was created and implemented[2] by it's software engineer Tony Tam[3]
Yahoo! allowed comments for each news article up until December 19, 2006, when commentary was disabled. Comments were enabled once again on March 2, 2010.[4]Comments were temporarily disabled between December 10, 2011 and December 15, 2011 due to glitches.
In June 2011, Yahoo! News was rebuilt using an internal content management system named: Yahoo! Publishing Platform [5]. The same platform now powers Yahoo! News in the following regions and languages: Argentina[6], Brazil [7], Canada [French [8] and English[9]], Chile[10], Colombia [11], Mexico[12], Peru [13], US [Spanish [14] and English [15]], Venezuela [16], Hong Kong [17], India [English [18], Marathi [19] , Tamil [20], Indonesia [21], Malaysia [22], Philippines[23], Singapore[24], Taiwan [25], France [26], Germany [27], Italy [28], Spain [29], United Kingdom [30]
In September 2011, Yahoo! News launched the Yahoo! News Activity functionality during the 2011 F8 conference with Facebook.
In April 2009, Yahoo! News ranked second among global news sites in U.S. users, after msnbc.com and ahead of CNN, according to Nielsen/NetRatings.[31]
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