Yahoo has added a terse statement to its podcast portal, announcing the site’s imminent death: Yahoo! apologizes deeply, but we will be closing down the Podcasts site on Oct. 31, 2007 Read/Write Web’s Marshall Kirkpatrick suggests that Yahoo’s decision to pull the plug may be a reflection of the rate of uptake of podcasting: Some [...]

Yahoo! on Monday launched its online video competition, Yahoo! Talent Show, and named Maria Sansone, Tom Green and Ask a Ninja as judges. Talent Show will award $50,000 and a development deal to produce a show on Yahoo! to the winner of the contest, which is looking for original Internet video talent. Sansone also hosts [...]

Yahoo! and Current TV, a pioneer in viewer created content for television and the Web, have partnered to deliver video content to Web with the launch of the Yahoo! Current Network. According to the companies, the site combines the best in user submitted videos plus professional, studio-produced content to air side by side in a [...]

Yahoo today released a press announcement that announced that renowned British astrophysicist and professor Stephen Hawking has vocalized his thoughts about the fate of the world in an exclusive audio podcast featured at the Yahoo! Search site. Pretty important stuff to think about. Unfortunately for the world, Hawking has no clue how the world can [...]