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Aside from announcing a huge deal with Tumblr, Yahoo has also made another announcement, namely an updated version of Flickr, the photo-sharing site that the company acquired some years ago.
Yahoo brought forth not only a redesign of the website, with larger images and the ability for users to upload full-resolutio... |
21 May 2013
02:28 GMT |
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While there are hundreds of millions of people who have at least heard of Tumblr, there are many who haven’t. That’s mainly because the platform caters to a younger audience. Tumblr is a six-year-old company that was started by David Karp. He was only 20 at the time. Now that Tumblr is becoming even m... |
20 May 2013
10:32 GMT |
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As Yahoo signed the deal with Tumblr, many wondered what they each had to win out of the deal. Well, Yahoo gets a great blogging platform that is constantly growing and has plenty of room to evolve, as well as a great team and a young entrepreneur that cares deeply about those who use Tumblr. At the same time, Tu... |
20 May 2013
10:07 GMT |
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As Yahoo announced the biggest deal of the past year, namely buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion, the company is also moving its blog to the Tumblr platform.
This seems appropriate given that now it basically owns a proper blogging platform.
The site has one single post so far and can be found at Yahoo.tumblr.com. The... |
20 May 2013
09:34 GMT |
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Yahoo isn’t the only one happy about signing the deal with Tumblr; David Karp, the platform’s CEO, is happy as well.
Karp said in a blog post that he was “elated” to tell us that Tumblr would be joining Yahoo.
“Before touching on how awesome this is, let me try to allay any concerns: ... |
20 May 2013
09:05 GMT |
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As Yahoo announced its $1.1 billion (€856 million) acquisition of Tumblr this morning, investors are trying to buy more and more shares, making the stock price head to $27 (€21).
After years of having an extremely low price per stock, Yahoo is thriving under Marissa Mayer. Her latest acquisition of blogging platfor... |
20 May 2013
08:50 GMT |
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Yahoo has confirmed that it has acquired Tumblr after several days of rumors regarding the transaction. “Per the agreement and our promise not to screw it up, Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business. David Karp will remain CEO. The product, service and brand will continue to be defined an... |
20 May 2013
08:25 GMT |
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Some argue that the $1.1 billion (€856 million) deal between Yahoo and Tumblr is way more than the Internet giant should have paid, while others think it doesn’t even begin to cover what Tumblr is capable of.
While the first category is generally formed by people who have no idea about Tumblr, the second... |
20 May 2013
07:49 GMT |
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Well, it’s obvious that not all users are happy about Yahoo buying Tumblr, although they don’t even know the details of the deal yet. WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg said in a blog post that imports from Tumblr to WordPress had risen from an average of 500 blog posts an hour to over 72,000 on Sunday. ... |
20 May 2013
07:35 GMT |
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It’s true that Yahoo has seen better days, but things are looking up for them ever since Marissa Mayer took the lead as the company’s CEO.
The company’s stock has been on the climb ever since last summer, reaching $28 (€21.7) per share, which it hasn’t seen in years.
Yahoo has also re... |
20 May 2013
05:36 GMT |
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Yahoo Japan, which has little to do with the Yahoo that's buying Tumblr, has revealed that it believes some 22 million IDs may have been leaked in an attack that the company discovered and stopped as it happened.
Yahoo Japan believes the attackers were attempting to get their hands on IDs and probably whatever ... |
20 May 2013
04:59 GMT |
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Ever since news came about that Yahoo was in advanced talks to Tumblr for a buyout, users have gone into frenzy, scared of what the deal could mean to them.
However, most of their fears don’t have a solid ground to them.
For instance, one of the main worries the users had was that the blogging platform will... |
20 May 2013
02:22 GMT |
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Yahoo has bought Tumblr for a whopping $1.1 billion (€856 million), after the company’s board approved of the acquisition during a Sunday evening meeting.
The price is slightly higher than what Facebook paid for Instagram last spring, Wall Street Journal reports.
Since Yahoo has already announced they ... |
20 May 2013
01:59 GMT |
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As companies “fight” over buying Tumblr, Yahoo seems to be the one that is closest to sealing the deal. The price tag? A whopping $1.1 billion (€856 million). However, the sum doesn’t seem to be big enough for Tumblr, TechCrunch reports, citing sources with knowledge on the matter. ... |
18 May 2013
14:51 GMT |
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As Yahoo is said to be closing in on a deal with Tumblr for over $1 billion, other giants also have their eyes on the platform. Apparently, Facebook and Microsoft are also interested in Tumblr and have been negotiating a take-over, Forbes reports. If the deal with Yahoo falls through, Tumblr can look at the other... |
18 May 2013
05:40 GMT |
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The Yahoo board is said to be planning a meeting for Sunday night to decide whether to approve the $1.1 billion (€856 million) cash offer for Tumblr. According to AllThingsD, Yahoo has been thinking about the deal with Tumblr for some time after going from considering a strategic investment to an acquisit... |
18 May 2013
03:58 GMT |
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A new study reveals the fact that Google employees are the most optimistic about the company’s future. Career website Glassdoor has asked employees what they think about the companies their work for and how they see their prospects for the next two quarters. The study was done across 250,000 companies, but o... |
17 May 2013
08:56 GMT |
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Yahoo’s news feed will now include Twitter messages from important news corporations, Marissa Mayer announced.
Thanks to the new partnership between Yahoo and Twitter, you’ll receive the newest tweets straight to your newsfeed, which means that you can view them all in the same platform, without having... |
17 May 2013
04:46 GMT |
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Yahoo announces that the Mexican court has granted the company’s appeal to reverse the ruling of the case where the company was asked to pay $2.75 billion (€2.13 billion).
The mentioned case involves World Wide Directories and Ideas Interactivas who filed a suit against Yahoo! Mexico and Yahoo Inc. in 201... |
17 May 2013
02:44 GMT |
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Yahoo is reportedly eyeing Tumblr for their next buyout. The deal, according to sources, could reach as high as $1 billion (€778 million), which would put it in the same league as Facebook’s Instagram acquisition last year. So far, Marissa Mayer has stayed away from big acquisitions and has resumed to sp... |
17 May 2013
02:08 GMT |
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Yahoo is planning to increase their advertising and marketing efforts for younger users, the company’s CFO said in a conference.
The web portal will make its brand more noticeable to young adults by placing billboards outdoors and at sporting events, as well as other places where its wants to attract people b... |
15 May 2013
04:08 GMT |
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The official Yahoo Finance app for Microsoft’s new Window 8 operating system has received a new update today on all versions of the OS, including desktop and tablets builds.
The release notes point to a few bug fixes, so the app should load a bit faster and be more responsive on any device running this particu... |
14 May 2013
13:01 GMT |
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Marissa Mayer’s bet on mobile has been kicked up a notch as she added Dylan Casey, the former VP of product management at Path, to her group of experts.
Casey will soon join Yahoo, sources told AllThingsD. He was responsible with recruiting the product management team for Path, as well as with managing the pr... |
13 May 2013
05:25 GMT |
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Marissa Mayer’s shopping spree has officially reached a round number. Since she joined Yahoo last summer, the company has acquired ten startups.
With Yahoo’s announcement on Friday about acquiring Loki Studios, as well as MileWise and GoPollGo on Thursday, the number of startups the Internet giant bough... |
13 May 2013
03:52 GMT |
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The tech companies are trying to become more mobile, acknowledging this as the future of the industry.
In the past few years, with the increased popularity of smartphones and tablets, more and more companies have tried to get a piece of the cake. Some managed to be among the first companies to bet on mobile, while ... |
11 May 2013
06:18 GMT |
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Yahoo’s shopping spree seems to be growing strong. The company has acquired Loki Studios, according to an announcement on the gaming company’s website. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but at a first look, it seems to be yet another “acqhire,” which means that Yahoo is more interest... |
11 May 2013
02:16 GMT |
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Yahoo has bought two new companies in their endeavor to be more present on the mobile scene, namely MileWise and GoPollGo.
The two startups will be shutting down their services to join Yahoo’s mobile teams, Mashable writes.
Five people from MileWise will work under the Emerging Products and Technology depar... |
10 May 2013
02:23 GMT |
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Yahoo is serious about change – it redesigned the homepage, Yahoo Mail has a brand new look, it's working on a complete revamp of the mobile front, and so on. Now, it's working on a Yahoo Search revamp. In fact, Yahoo has been hinting at it very recently, and it now seems that the new look for Yahoo ... |
9 May 2013
04:27 GMT |
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has spent more than a decade at Google, most of that time on the search team. So it shouldn't be a surprise that search is still important to her now that she's running Yahoo. That said, Yahoo Search has seen better days. The partnership with Microsoft isn't working out as plan... |
9 May 2013
03:11 GMT |
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Today, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has announced the availability of its Nokia Chat application for Lumia users in more markets around the world. Powered by Yahoo!, the Nokia Chat application is available only as a beta trial for the time being, and is now accessible to users in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Fin... |
8 May 2013
07:11 GMT |
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Yahoo is definitely looking to buy a video service. It believed it had a match in Dailymotion, but that deal fell through since the French government wanted Dailymotion to stay French.
Now the rumor is that Yahoo is talking to Hulu, which has since been rumored to be for sale.
It's not the only company intere... |
8 May 2013
04:47 GMT |
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Yahoo has been trying to find a way to get out of its search deal with Microsoft, the Wall Street Journal has revealed, but has had little success in doing so. In fact, it's likely it won't be able to until at least 2015. This while Microsoft has extended the search revenue guarantee for another year. Th... |
8 May 2013
03:20 GMT |
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For all the emphasis on content and the homepage, Yahoo does actually have a few apps that people use, for better and for worse, Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger probably being the biggest.
Mail has already gotten a revamp, the fresh and simple new look has Marissa Mayer's fingerprints all over it.
Now, the Me... |
3 May 2013
05:18 GMT |
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Yahoo has acquired Astrid, to-do list and personal assistant mobile app for an undisclosed sum.
Astrid has announced the news on its blog. According to the post signed by the Astrid team, over the next 90 days, the app will continue to work in its current form, but they will accept no new premium subscriptions.
Ho... |
2 May 2013
02:07 GMT |
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The French government doesn’t want Yahoo to have a share in Dailymotion, reports are saying. Apparently, the $200 million (€153 million) bid that Yahoo had on a majority stake in the video site has been nixed by the French government that didn’t want a U.S. company to have a controlling stake in a ... |
30 April 2013
03:52 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced it will debut six new original web shows this year alone, in an effort to transform Yahoo into a place where users want to come every day.
“In the last year, we have more than doubled the original video programming on Yahoo! to become one of the Web’s largest content publishers,&rdqu... |
30 April 2013
03:15 GMT |
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Rich Riley, former Yahoo executive, has joined Shazam, the music discovery mobile app. Riley will be the company’s new CEO, as Andre Fisher moves on to executive chairman. The company says that the move is intended to strengthen the leadership team and “position Shazam for next stage of growth and IPO,&... |
29 April 2013
09:31 GMT |
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Yahoo chairman Fred Amoroso has resigned from his position, the company has announced. Amoroso took the job as chairman of the Board at Yahoo in May 2012, when Ross Levinsohn was named interim CEO. He is known for leading the team that investigated Yahoo’s former CEO Scott Thompson for making up some of his... |
26 April 2013
04:30 GMT |
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has joined the board of Jawbone, a high-profile gadget maker. The company, who produces the Jawbone wireless headsets, Jambox Speakers, and the Up personal fitness writsbands, has been in talks with Mayer since last fall, AllThingsD reports. According to sources, Mayer has already attended... |
26 April 2013
01:58 GMT |
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Yahoo! Music has announced that it will live stream The Lumineers concert on Monday, April 29. The Grammy nominated band for Best New Artist of the year will attend the Digital Content NewFront even in New York City. With this occasion, the band will perform live at the Best Buy Theater, says the announcement. Ho... |
25 April 2013
10:33 GMT |
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While Marissa Mayer has been focusing on Yahoo's products, her being a product-focused exec, it makes sense, to the point that many were worried that Yahoo's content site was being neglected.
The latest deal, to bring Saturday Night Live content to Yahoo, doesn't exactly change that since it's sy... |
25 April 2013
02:45 GMT |
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If Yahoo’s brand new iOS Weather app isn’t behaving as you expected, either your expectations of a weather app are a bit too high, or you need to install this update.
The latter situation seems more likely, as we’ve experienced a few hiccups ourselves in our admittedly non-scientific testing of the... |
23 April 2013
10:32 GMT |
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After Yahoo Mail got an update and a fresh new look, which will soon become the default and only option, Yahoo Calendar is getting some new features and a cleaner look.
Some, even most of the changes are obvious ones and focus mostly on usability. For example, in the Day view, you can see events across at least an e... |
23 April 2013
03:17 GMT |
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In the past few years, Yahoo has been trying to strengthen its position in Asia. Now, the American company signed an alliance with mobile ad network Vserv.mobi to help monetize Yahoo’s efforts through Southeast Asia, including Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. The deal is expected ... |
22 April 2013
09:55 GMT |
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The new, cleaned up Yahoo Mail is becoming the default for everyone. The new version of the popular webmail client was introduced late last year and it's been available to users who wanted to upgrade.
Soon, users won't have an option and will have to upgrade to the new look, though the roll out will be gra... |
22 April 2013
03:39 GMT |
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As part of a big cleanup, Yahoo! this week has given Apple the green light to remove one of its iOS applications, as the company is no longer supporting it. Yahoo! confirms in a blog post that “As of April 30, 2013, Yahoo! Deals will be going away.” Apple swiftly removed the app from its iOS App Store fo... |
22 April 2013
03:34 GMT |
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It looks like the spring cleaning fever has expanded rapidly and reached Yahoo. The company has announced that by the end of the month several products will stop working. The process includes several different products, said Jay Rossiter, executive VP in charge of platforms in a blog post. Yahoo! Deals, Yahoo! SMS ... |
20 April 2013
04:06 GMT |
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Yahoo! has released its much hyped dedicated weather app for iOS devices. Appropriately dubbed Yahoo! Weather, the free app hopes to show you the weather “like never before.” Apparently Yahoo!’s bold claim isn’t just a typical marketing pitch. Yahoo! Weather combines photos from your location... |
18 April 2013
10:15 GMT |
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A rumor that Google is interested in buying WhatsApp has been making the rounds for the past few days. This isn't the first such rumor, last time around, in December, it was Facebook that was said to be interested in the company.
But WhatsApp has once again stepped in to deny the rumors and say that WhatsApp is... |
9 April 2013
04:49 GMT |
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Yahoo is definitely one of the large companies fully embracing Windows 8, as the Sunnyvale-based firm has already released several Modern apps capable of running on Microsoft’s new operating system.
The company has just rolled one more program called Yahoo Finance and supposed to “bring to you a combinat... |
4 April 2013
14:41 GMT |
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