Yahoo! News

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Yahoo! News
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URL news.yahoo.com
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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 its 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]

Since 2011, Yahoo! has expanded its focus to include original content as part of its plans to become a major media organization.[31] Veteran journalists including Walter Shapiro and Virginia Heffernan were hired, while the website had a correspondent in the White House press corps for the first time in February 2012.[31][32]

[edit] Ranking

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.[33]

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