Yahoo’s list of most popular queries of 2011 is dominated by celebrities, but iPhone managed to claim the top spot.

Top email providers including Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL have partnered with Cisco spinoff Agari to identify and filter phishing campaigns.

At the China 2.0 conference at Stanford on Friday, Alibaba CEO Jack Ma stated that he is “very much interested” in acquiring Yahoo, despite the company going under heavy loss.

While Yahoo’s former Chief Executive Carol Bartz who didn’t really deserve the post and had to be ousted, there are a lot of speculations that are cooking up all over the web. A U.S. based business/internet news blog Business Insider noted a rumor that Yahoo’s co-founder and one-time CEO is planning to buy the company – most probably by acquiring 50 percent of the shares, and take control over it, again.

Carol Bartz was removed from the Chief Executive post by the Yahoo Board of Directors after 2 years of holding it. They have now appointed Timothy Morse for the post until a permanent CEO is appointed.

A list of popular Google products and alternatives to each one. Also, a list of Google products which do not have a good replacement today.

The Bing Webmaster team has announced the integration of Yahoo traffic data into Bing Webmaster Tools reports. Bing Webmaster Tools will now be showing integrated data from Yahoo within certain areas and reports.

Yahoo’s new Movieplex portal will be offering free high-quality movie streams of Bollywood movies from major Indian production houses.

As part of the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance, from August 3, Yahoo! search results in Europe will be powered by Bing. Yahoo! will be migrating organic search results for its European properties to the Bing search index.

Microsoft today launched a new state-of-the-art research & development facility in Bangalore, India. Dr Qi Lu, President, Online Services Division, Microsoft inaugurated Vigyan, the swank new 154,000 sq. ft. facility is situated in the heart of the city.

Back in April 2011, we had posted an article about the new features in Yahoo Mail Beta. Though Yahoo Mail has improved a lot, it has also added a little bit of annoyance by making the preview pane hard to find.

Delicious acquired by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. Delicous is now part of AVON.

IntoNow which is an iOS based TV tagging app, has been acquired by Yahoo!

Yahoo has made a comeback with a new record for January grabbing the top pageview. It beat Google and Facebook in the process and emerges again as a third player.

Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Dick Costolo, Carol Bartz and Eric Schmidt dined with US President Barack Obama. Here are some pictures from the dinner where Steve Jobs looks perfectly fine.