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Roy Bostock, chairman of Yahoo Inc said he is supportive of keeping Carol Bartz a CEO of Yahoo in spite of the fact she has been heavily criticized over the past time for incompetence to raise company’s revenues.

At a shareholders meeting Thursday Bostock said he was confident that the company was headed in the right direction and that Bartz had put Yahoo on a "clear path forward to accelerated revenue growth."

Google experienced a glitch of its AdWords service in the UK. The service mistakenly credited huge sums of money into an unknown number of UK customers' AdWords accounts after they tried to redeem Google’s vouchers at £100.

Pete Williams told that Google mistakenly credited £75,000 into his account after he redeemed the voucher.

"I got one of these and let Google know via their @AdWords twitter account – no response yet. Obviously I've not spent a penny of it, but it appears other people have!" he said.

Yahoo may sell its last stake in its joint venture with Japanese mobile phone operator Softbank Corp in a move to have a better focus on Chinese assets.

At the moment Yahoo is in advanced talks with Softbank to transfer its 35% stake in Yahoo Japan entirely to the Japanese stakeholder who already owns 42% of the JV. The public value of the stake is about $8 billion.

A governance analysis and proxy voting firm Glass-Lewis compiled a list of largest 25 overindulged companies which was topped by Carol Bartz, the CEO of Yahoo. Last year Bartz took home $39 million, including a $10 million make-whole payment for options relinquished when she left Autodesk (ADSK), her previous employer. And this was at the time when the company was tremendously losing its positions to Google.

Yahoo’s future product strategy was unveiled by the company Chief Product Officer Blake Irving who revealed the Internet giant’s plans for the fall. Among the updates and new services Yahoo wants to present to its 600 million customers are new mail experience, search and better social networking functionality.

This week Baidu said that it has plans to expand its business overseas and at the moment it is preparing to invest globally.

According to the company CEO Baidu is facing a "window of opportunity" with the international market that it must grab.

"Going forward I think we should make this kind of move as early as possible," he said. "During the next five to 15 years we should see some meaningful revenue outside of China."

Yahoo Inc will allot duties for its North American sales operations among four internal executives instead of replacing the sales manager who left the company about 5 months ago. The new arrangement is believed to help the sales team to be closer to Yahoo’s senior management, says Hilary Schneider, the head of Americas business.

In March this year Joanne Bradford left her position of Yahoo’s head of North American revenue and market development for privately held Demand Media.

Japanese largest Internet destination Yahoo Japan will reportedly partner with Google Inc to adopt its search engine instead of teaming up with Microsoft. Yahoo Japan and Google will work together to control Japanese search market.

All Things digital, a technology blog owned by Dow Jones newswires, reports that Google seemed to be zeroing in on a deal with Yahoo Japan while the Nikkei business daily also said Yahoo Japan would probably make the switch.

Jeff Kinder, Yahoo's senior vice president for media products and solutions talking on the sidelines of a Yahoo Open Hack Day in Bangalore said that the company is considering investments in hackers with good ideas and technologies as it pursues to improve its position in the market.

"We are open to many ways of having a stake in creative young companies," said Kinder, adding that the company neither has a fund earmarked for this purpose, nor a definite model or set of criteria for such investments.

Addressing the audience at the meeting at Silicon Valley headquarters Yahoo executives underlined the companys focus on search and content forecasting optimistic prospects.

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz also stressed the company's bid to improve its e-mail system as part of ongoing efforts to strengthen its ability to attract and retain Web users.

"The big dog of engagement is mail," Bartz said in a webcast of the meeting.. "Yahoo has its focus. It is excited about its future and it has its pride back."

Talking to BBC News the CEO of Yahoo Inc Carol Bartz said: "Google is going to have a problem because Google is only known for search. It is only half our business; it's 99.9% of their business. They've got to find other things to do."

Bartz made the comments when asked if Yahoo's sprawling network of sites and services had a defined brand image.

Talking further she noted: "Google has to grow a company the size of Yahoo every year to be interesting."

Chinese search engine giant Baidu reported strong quarter results boosted in part by the quit of Google from the country. The first quarter total revenues made up $189.6 million, a 59.6% increase from the corresponding period in 2009. Net income in the first quarter of 2010 was $70.4 million, a 165.3% increase from the first quarter of 2009.

Baidu gained thanks to stronger paid search revenue as Google’s censorship issues with China escalated.

Joanne Bradford, Yahoo Inc's head of North American revenue and market development, leaves the company to join private online content start-up Demand Media. It is the latest departure in a series of resignations that has been taking place since Carol Bartz took the reins in January 2009.

Demand Media stated that Bradford will join the company as its first chief revenue officer to oversee advertising sales and the company's recently launched online content services business.

Bradford leaves the Internet giant as Yahoo is in the midst of a turnaround effort led by Bartz.

As Microsoft and other largest competitors of Google are calling for legal complaints against the world's No. 1 search engine Yahoo Inc keeps to a more dispassionate position. The company CEO Carol Bartz said that Yahoo has other tools to compete with Google including its latest searching deal with Microsoft.

"I think for the most part the markets work and I'd rather be competitive in the market," Bartz told reporters at a special briefing at Yahoo's Sunnyvale, California headquarters on Tuesday.