Yahoo! News

Yahoo! News is an Internet-based news aggregator provided by Yahoo!. It categorises news into '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, such as 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 first most emailed page on the web. The idea was created and implemented by its software engineer Tony Tam. Yahoo! allowed comments for news articles until December 19, 2006, when commentary was disabled. Comments were re-enabled on March 2, 2010. 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. The same platform now powers Yahoo! News in the following regions and languages: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, English,] Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Spanish (US), English (US),], Venezuela, Hong Kong, English (India), Marathi, Tamil, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Since 2011, Yahoo! has expanded its focus to include original content, as part of its plans to become a major media organization. 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.