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Yahoo is getting super-serious about the role, tablets will play in its future content strategy. The company finally launched its Flipboard-like news reader, Livestand, this week. Also it launched IntoNow, an impressive social TV app for the iPad that marries the check-in functionality of GetGlue with the real-time content identification of Shazam. Livestand pulls in…

This week, AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced their plans to seal off extra online space for ads on each other’s websites. It’s a strategy to slow down Google and Facebook’s ever growing momentum in ads display. This somehow bizarre alliance is designed to sell some of the less-prized ad space that Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc…