Yahoo! opened a research lab one block from the SHRC. While we were created to do basic research and work with UC Berkeley, Yahoo!'s lab is a full-blown lab filled with Berkeley students and professors. I was invited to their open house but had to miss it because of the Cognitive conference in Indiana. Here's a post, though, by someone who did go to the open house, with additional comments on the usefulness of the lab compared to Google:
O'Reilly Radar > Yahoo! Research Berkeley Launches.
Yahoo! Research
