With many shareholders angry at Yahoo's lagging performance and falling share price, Yahoo's future remains up in the air. Pressure on its board and management to deliver positive results quickly, or resume negotiations with Microsoft, is likely to continue. The company is scheduled to report its second-quarter earnings after the market closes today. Activist investor Carl Icahn, who had built his campaign on the promise that he would be able to sell all or part of Yahoo to Microsoft, is likely to continue agitating from the inside, and his presence on the board could make a deal with Microsoft more …

The Seattle-based subsidiary of Comcast, thePlatform, has reached deals to deliver video to Web sites aimed at subscribers to the high-speed Internet services of Time Warner Cable Inc., Cablevision Systems Corp. and Cox Communications Inc. Cable operators are increasingly seeking to become destinations for online video, as consumers spend more time watching television shows, movies and other clips that they download from Apple Inc.'s iTunes, Google Inc.'s YouTube and other Internet sources. ThePlatform provides a service that functions as a management system for converting TV shows into the latest online-video formats, inserting promotions from online-advertising networks and transmitting the content …

TiVo will introduce a "product purchase" feature today in partnership with the Internet retailer Amazon.com. Owners of TiVo video recorders will see, in TiVo's various onscreen menus, links to buy products like CDs, DVDs and books that guests are promoting on talk shows like "The Oprah Winfrey Show," "The Late Show With David Letterman" and "The Daily Show." The move highlights TiVo's attempt to shift from being a creator of set-top boxes, competing with copycat devices, to being an advertising innovator that is trying to develop advertising technologies for the television industry. If a viewer chooses to buy an advertised …

Propeller , AOL's Digg-like news site, launches version 2.0 later this morning. The site sports a new design and logo and now has a mascot. But the biggest feature change is the removal of a pure Digg-like vote count. In its place is an algorithm based popularity ranking of 1-10, which takes into account "many more aspects of participation" when determining popularity. Voting on a story is now called "prop it." The service has also cut down the number of news categories. Those remaining include Arts & Entertainment, Business & Finance, Family, Humor, News, Science & Technology, Sports and …

Sporting News on Wednesday will launch "Sporting News Today," a daily editorial product that will be e-mailed each morning to a list of subscribers in a hybrid format the company calls a "daily digital sports newspaper." The product, which utilizes technology licensed from the digital magazine firm Texterity, has been designed to reproduce the visual packaging of a newspaper while blending the navigation of the Web. Readers can jump to various sections (each issue will have at least 24 pages), but the digital newspaper's layout should make it easier for them to find what they want to read. The product …