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Internet giant Yahoo Inc is looking to sell HotJobs and Yahoo Small Business as part of its drive to shed its non-core assets, peHUB, owned by ThomsonReuters, said, citing sources familiar to the matter.

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Yahoo is expected to launch its new homepage Tuesday, months earlier than previously planned.

Yahoo! is shutting its unloved social networking site, Yahoo! 360, next month.The closure follows the shuttering of services Y! 360 aimed at college graduates and Mash, two other networking efforts opened in 2007 and then quietly closed. Yahoo!

Not with a bang, but with a whimper. Yahoo! is unceremoniously closing GeoCities, one of the original web-hosting services acquired by Yahoo! in 1999 for $2.87 billion.

Yahoo's Carol Bartz began rolling out a new management structure, in moves that will overhaul top executive ranks at the Internet company.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Carol Bartz could announce a major management reorganization as early as next week, most likely on Wednesday, according to the blog AllThingsD.

Last month we reported a potentially important change in search-market share trends: After years of steady decline, Yahoo's domestic share numbers (YHOO) had increased for five months in a row. Well, the good news continued in January, with Yahoo's share jumping a half-point to 21%, per Comscore.

An anemic ad market is expected to depress the Web portal's Q4 earnings.