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Yahoo has announced a new security option for its users, which should make it harder for unwanted persons to access accounts without permission. It's not the first big identity provider to enable the option, but it's good that Yahoo finally got on board. If you want to add another layer of security to your... |
9 December 2011
10:01 GMT |
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Yahoo is finally giving its BOSS service an upgrade. After its fate was in question for many months, due to the switch to Bing for search results, it seems that Yahoo is determined to improve its custom search service.Yahoo BOSS, which stands for Build Your Own Search Service, is now introducing several new features ... |
7 December 2011
11:56 GMT |
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Google is now testing a new Image Search interface for tablets. Its main search page also comes with a customized look on tablets, so the extension makes sense.
Google is taking an interesting approach, displaying the images in the results in a slideshow, enabling users to both see the larger version but also look a... |
7 December 2011
07:41 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced a couple of new features for its image search engine. They're not game changers, but they should prove useful in some cases. Users can now share images they find via Yahoo Search with their Twitter or Facebook friends.
The image results page also gets infinite scrolling, there are no more pa... |
6 December 2011
08:36 GMT |
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By making use of a technique called DNS poisoning, a cyberattacker managed to take down Samsung, Google, Gmail, YouTube, Yahoo, Apple, Linux, Microsoft and Hotmail websites, hosted on the .cd domain extension which belongs to the Democratic Republic of Congo. The hacker who calls himself AlpHaNiX managed to deface a... |
6 December 2011
04:19 GMT |
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Group messaging apps were the latest hype, a year ago. Yet, it seems some companies are still only now jumping on the bandwagon. Case in point, Yahoo, which is launching its very first group messaging app, dubbed Hub.
Yahoo Hub is a fairly standard group messaging app, it enables users to have group conversations as... |
5 December 2011
08:01 GMT |
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The age of the content farm is behind us. Well, maybe not entirely, but the once unstoppable content-churning machines are reshaping themselves for a web (read that: Google) that is less forgiving of poor quality content.
Last year, Yahoo acquired Associated Content, one of the leading 'content farms' on t... |
2 December 2011
10:20 GMT |
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Security experts discovered that the newly released version of Yahoo Messenger and some of its predecessors contain a vulnerability that allows an attacker to take over the status of an unsuspecting user, replacing it with his own malicious links. Bitdefender researchers claim that the attack begins when a cybercrim... |
2 December 2011
10:20 GMT |
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There's a new version of Yahoo Messenger out there and it's not just a minor update. Yahoo Messenger 11.5 adds several new features, some of which have been heavily requested for a lot of time.
Tabbed conversations is the biggest new thing in Yahoo Messenger 11.5. Finally, talking to several people at once... |
1 December 2011
07:57 GMT |
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Four major players of the Internet, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and AOL, unite their forces with Agari, a company that hopes to revolutionize email security, with the purpose of developing new ways to keep email inboxes clean.
According to CNET, Agari analyzes 1.5 billion emails each day in the attempt of trying to fin... |
30 November 2011
08:44 GMT |
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Lately, Yahoo! makes the headlines only in news that announce stake selling and the general downslide of the company. Despite all this, the development team for their instant messaging app has been working on a new version of the product and the result is Yahoo! Messenger 11.5.0.152. The new release introduces a sle... |
30 November 2011
04:06 GMT |
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Several months ago, Yahoo introduced the brand new Yahoo Mail. It boasted several improvements and new features, plus some performance enhancements. But not everyone was impressed, in fact, quite a lot of people liked their old Yahoo Mail. Yet Yahoo kept on pestering them to upgrade to the newest version. When they... |
26 November 2011
10:51 GMT |
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With Yahoo's troubles these days, it's hard to remember that it was once the hottest thing in Silicon Valley, a company on the way up. The dot com era was filled with rising stars, some long gone, but Yahoo stood out.It was during this time that it put up one of the most iconic billboards in San Francisco a... |
18 November 2011
12:04 GMT |
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The search market seems like a relatively easy one to follow. After all, not much happens, Google dominates, Bing and Yahoo try to keep up. But not everyone analyzing the market comes up with the same results.For example, Experian Hitwise's numbers for October seem to contradict the comScore numbers published ea... |
17 November 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Continuing a trend among search engines of late, Yahoo has now added a dedicated Recipe search tab and is also including recipe results in the main results page for some queries.
The new tab, as is pretty self-evident, will enable users find the perfect meal for any time of the day or to try something different.
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16 November 2011
09:04 GMT |
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Yahoo Mail is now available in Arabic. Users can now sign up and use the popular webmail client entirely in Arabic, something they haven't been able to do so far.Apart from the Arabic translation, Yahoo is also debuting an interesting option for the new Yahoo Mail, the entire interface can be mirrored if you... |
14 November 2011
13:51 GMT |
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There hasn't been much movement in October in the search market. In the US, Google continues to dominate, it even gained 0.3 percent points last month, while Yahoo and Microsoft struggle, to no avail to catch up."Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in October with 65.6 percent market share (up ... |
12 November 2011
08:31 GMT |
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Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft have banded together in an unholy alliance of sorts. They've announced that they've struck a deal around advertising which will allow them to sell each other's inventory for, hopefully, a more efficient use of ad space and resources.The idea is to put unsold inventory from any... |
9 November 2011
10:00 GMT |
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Yahoo is continuing to expand its outsourcing. Under former CEO's Carol Bartz leadership, Yahoo moved to get rid of as many businesses and products as possible. The ones that it kept it oursourced to outside companies.
The biggest such move was its search deal with Microsoft. Bing is now powering Yahoo Search a... |
31 October 2011
06:04 GMT |
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The new version of Miranda instant messaging software does not show too many changes. There are no new features added, only bug fixes for two protocols: Yahoo and Jabber. The previous update squashed bugs relating to AIM protocol.
Yahoo-related repairs eliminated a bug that would interrupt compressed connections. Wi... |
28 October 2011
08:50 GMT |
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The situation around Yahoo is starting to become a little clearer, though not by much. There are definitely groups trying to buy Yahoo. And the company is definitely up for sale, for the right price.But, even at its lowest, Yahoo is still rather expensive. Few companies would afford to buy it outright and even severa... |
25 October 2011
15:41 GMT |
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Ever since the Yahoo board got rid of its, rather underperforming, CEO Carol Bartz earlier this fall, the rumors about its future have been all over the place. While Yahoo initially denied wanting to sell, this is one of the possible paths going forward.And, while it seems that the companies most interested in Yahoo ... |
24 October 2011
09:01 GMT |
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It took almost two years, but Yahoo has finally switched all of its search sites over to Bing, with the sole exception of South Korea. What's more, all search partners that had integrated Yahoo Search features are being powered by Bing as well.Yahoo made the most progress, in terms of the number of countries swi... |
19 October 2011
09:11 GMT |
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Yahoo has revealed its financial results for the third quarter of 2011. The company reported both a drop in revenue and a drop in profits, but the numbers were higher than analyst expectations, resulting in a slight uptick in share price.Otherwise, there's not much else to celebrate, revenue continues to fall, t... |
19 October 2011
07:26 GMT |
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With all of the restructurings, the reorganizations, the plans to revamp the company and focus on content, it's easy to forget that Yahoo is, at heart, a technology company. Which is why the engineers still working at the company need to remind us with things like the Yahoo Mail Visualisation Project.
Just li... |
14 October 2011
10:01 GMT |
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Even though it's not the first time, Yahoo and Bing have been caught again serving malware through their advertised results, and this time the malicious element involved is the infamous Sirefef, also known as ZeroAccess and Max++.GFI Labs blog reveals that the cybervillains have changed the malevolent file that ... |
14 October 2011
02:53 GMT |
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Hot on the heels of comScore's search market numbers, Experian Hitwise is providing its own analysis. While the numbers differ, for a number of reasons, the overall trends are rather similar and both reports show Google growing in September in the US, after staying put for a long time.
Determining exactly how... |
13 October 2011
09:41 GMT |
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It's business as usual in the search market, at least in the US, in September. Except for the rather somber fact that Yahoo has hit its lowest point in history, everything else is moving, or not moving as the case may be, according to the bigger and unchanged trends.
Google managed to turn the tides in Septem... |
11 October 2011
09:21 GMT |
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With Yahoo's faith hanging in the balance and even the people in charge unsure what to do next, the rumor mill is having a field day digging up potential buyers or other strategic moves for the company.The latest rumor says that Yahoo is looking to sell its stake in Yahoo Japan, not exactly the hardest bet to ma... |
7 October 2011
12:31 GMT |
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Yahoo and ABC News have announced a partnership which will see ABC News content and coverage land on Yahoo News and other Yahoo properties. The partnership goes beyond content, the Yahoo news and the ABC News teams will share offices in several cities and will work on several common projects. The partnership will al... |
3 October 2011
11:13 GMT |
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Yahoo's future is uncertain and that's the only certain thing we know about the company. Despite initially denying it, Yahoo is entertaining the idea of a sale. But, despite its lackluster performance in recent years, the company is still worth more than $16 billion, 11.8 billion Euro.So it's going to ... |
1 October 2011
10:21 GMT |
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Yahoo is saying goodbye to its web-based Yahoo Messenger client, dubbed Web Messenger. The tool enabled users to log in and chat with their friends without downloading the desktop version.
It was a useful tool, and rather powerful, but it has now been made obsolete by the built-in Yahoo Messenger client in Yahoo M... |
1 October 2011
06:13 GMT |
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The revamped Delicious, at least the first version of it, is here. After getting bought from Yahoo by AVOS, a startup created by two YouTube cofounders, the site has been rebuilt from the ground up. It will still feel familiar and many of the old concepts are still there, but the interface and the infrastructure hav... |
27 September 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Yahoo is announcing that the switch to Microsoft Bing-powered organic search results has been completed in most of the places Yahoo Search is available. All of the European markets have been transitioned as well as the Asian ones, with the sole exception of South Korea.
Yahoo started a big push to transition all o... |
20 September 2011
06:01 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced a revamped search results page, with a few design tweaks and improvements, aiming for a cleaner page and simpler navigation. The new design is being rolled out to all users.
The redesign covers the main search page, but also dedicated verticals such as Sports or News. The Image Search has been ... |
16 September 2011
09:20 GMT |
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Search engines should improve their advertisement techniques as it seems that malware spreading websites might appear to users who were looking to download things like Skype, Firefox or Adobe Player. The GFI Labs blog revealed their discovery after noticing that something was fishy after the websites behind the link... |
16 September 2011
07:57 GMT |
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Yahoo is still in turmoil after ousting CEO Carol Bartz. The company has been in trouble for years, but the move opened up the question of its future once again. While the board is putting together a list of options, it has tried to downplay the possibility of a sale.
The board is looking at other alternatives to ... |
15 September 2011
06:21 GMT |
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As has been the case for quite a while now, the search market is rather stable, in terms of market share and Google, while not gaining anything for the past year or more isn't loosing much share either.All the while, the search market is growing overall, so Google, along with everyone else, is seeing more search... |
14 September 2011
11:55 GMT |
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Delicious, a venerable service by web standards, has had a rough time staying relevant for the past few years. Being stuck under Yahoo ownership didn't help.
For a long time, it looked like yet another web 2.0 site that didn't fulfill its promise, like many of the other hot sites of the moment. When Yaho... |
12 September 2011
06:41 GMT |
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The latest Yahoo drama is still unfolding. After unceremoniously firing CEO Carol Bartz, the company is desperately looking for a direction and a strategy.What it's not looking for is a new CEO, apparently, since the company wants to determine what is the best path to go forward and will only then choose a CEO t... |
12 September 2011
05:30 GMT |
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Yahoo has been having quite a week. After firing CEO Carol Bartz, the company is examining its options and has hired consultants to come up with a path forward. Perfect timing for the perennial AOL acquisition/merger rumor to pop up again.
Right on cue, the possibility of an AOL/Yahoo merger is being discussed aga... |
10 September 2011
05:33 GMT |
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Microsoft has shown great patience with its online services, especially the search engine, and has continued to pour money into it in the hope that it will one day be worth it.That day is not here yet, but it may be just a bit closer. Bing-powered search has managed to gain 4 percent points in the past year, accordin... |
9 September 2011
12:01 GMT |
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Yahoo has been struggling for years to turn things around and start seeing some solid growth and revenue once again. Previous CEOs tried, and failed, to turn the tides and now the latest, Carol Bartz, has been ousted after the board got tired of waiting for things to start looking up.Bartz was brought in to revitaliz... |
7 September 2011
12:12 GMT |
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Perhaps an inevitable move, Carol Bartz is out as Yahoo CEO after almost three years of trying, and failing, to turn around the fortunes of the troubled company. Stagnant revenue and profits have been plaguing Yahoo for the past few years and the string of restructuring and layoffs didn't manage to change things... |
7 September 2011
05:01 GMT |
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Hulu, the popular TV and movie streaming site, is up for sale and several big companies have been interested, including web giants Google, Amazon and Yahoo. But as the initial talks led to the first bids, many dropped out, leaving only four serious contenders.
Now, one more company is out of the race, DirectTV, th... |
5 September 2011
05:32 GMT |
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A new Yahoo Mail was introduced not a long time ago. After spending several months in beta, Yahoo started rolling it out to all users, though it was still mostly opt in. Even so, it has now managed to get 100 million users to switch to the new design.
"We’ve reached two major milestones with over 500,000 fa... |
24 August 2011
09:13 GMT |
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Flickr is expanding the use of its 'subscribe' API, which enables developers to get feeds with Flickr photos based on criteria they choose, by making it real-time and adding a much wider set of photos developers can pull.
"Initially you could only subscribe to photos from your contacts and favorites from... |
22 August 2011
09:20 GMT |
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Depending on what numbers you trust, how you're counting, the market and the period of time you're looking at, Facebook is already the most popular site on the web. On average though, in the US at least, it's still behind the big three, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
It's growing though, accordin... |
22 August 2011
05:40 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced that it has transitioned to Bing in several more countries. The company has been switching over to the Microsoft search engine in quite a few places recently. The most recent are several European countries and several in the Middle East and North Africa."We are excited to announce that the Yahoo! ... |
20 August 2011
06:53 GMT |
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Japanese Android fans who are into social networking will be able to purchase a unique smartphone starting next month, the “Yahoo Phone.”While this might be surprising for some, it appears that Yahoo is one of the most popular websites in the country, which somewhat explains why someone would want to manu... |
18 August 2011
08:04 GMT |
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