Search engine giant Yahoo is moving ahead with plans to open up its home page and e-mail services to third-party content. The move comes at a difficult time for the beleaguered company — earlier this year, Yahoo spurned an acquisition attempt by Internet rival Microsoft, triggering vitriolic infighting among its shareholders over the future of the company. Yahoo is the second major Internet company this week to announce plans to open up its sites to third-party content; Time Warner’s AOL made a similar move on Thursday.
