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Facebook is growing stronger and stronger and getting a lot of people to spend a lot of time on the site, but it's still not the biggest website, at least not in the US.
Google still holds the title, unsurprisingly, though Facebook is coming up the ranks. It's only in fourth place though, well behind even... |
25 May 2012
11:10 GMT |
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Yahoo Axis may be an interesting, though not revolutionary app, but the launch casts a bit of a shadow on Yahoo's prowess as a tech company.
The Chrome version of the app was found to have a rather serious security flaw so it's been pulled down until further notice.
It's not a huge issue, but it�... |
24 May 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Yahoo's caused quite a fuss with its new "browser" Yahoo Axis, particularly over the fact that Yahoo launched a browser. But that's not really true, especially on the desktop. All that Yahoo did was launch an HTML5 search app that can be installed as an extension in Chrome and Firefox but that works with ot... |
24 May 2012
07:50 GMT |
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Yahoo has finally done it. No, it hasn't found a way to pull itself up or finally found a CEO to lead it to a better fortune, but it has gotten rid of its stake in Alibaba. Yahoo has been struggling for years and it has gotten to the point where the company is valued mostly for its Asian investments, in Alibaba ... |
21 May 2012
05:54 GMT |
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With new blood leading Yahoo, for the time being, it wasn't particularly wonder whether this meant the patent war against Facebook would change course. It seemed like Yahoo had a good chance to make amends and minimize the damage and, indeed, it seems that there are some preliminary talks concerning a settlement... |
17 May 2012
05:31 GMT |
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Yahoo has had one tumultuous week culminating in the ouster of its latest CEO Scott Thompson. The Yahoo board went with him and what follows is yet another transition period for the company. However, there may be some unexpected consequences to the move concerning the patent lawsuit against Facebook.
A couple of mon... |
14 May 2012
09:40 GMT |
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Well, that was fun, while it lasted. Yahoo's latest CEO Scott Thompson, just two months on the job, is out the door. The non-existent computer science degree which he listed on his official bio and also the documents sent to the SEC were the reason for his dismissal. He's not the only one gone, the entire b... |
14 May 2012
04:31 GMT |
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It's probably a good thing that Bing is getting a redesign as Microsoft's search engine is hardly flying high. It did gain a bit of market share in April, too little for it to mean anything, and is up year-over-year as well.
That's more than you can say about Yahoo though, there's nowhere to go b... |
11 May 2012
09:40 GMT |
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Apparently, there's a big scandal about new Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson "lying" about his college degree. In his public bio page at Yahoo and in the documents presented to the US Securities and Exchange office, he said he had a computer science degree from Stonehill College along with an accounting one.
It turns o... |
4 May 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Yahoo and Facebook continue to trade blows, in the patent wars Yahoo started. Facebook is bulking up on patents, buying quite a lot of them from iBM and Microsoft. But Yahoo has now filed more claims against Facebook, based on two additional patents, for a total of 12.
"Today’s filing underscores the breadth o... |
28 April 2012
06:50 GMT |
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Flickr may not be the hottest thing around, but it's all that Yahoo's got at the moment. And, while the photo-sharing herds have moved on to greener pastures (maybe it's all the colored filters that make them seem so) like Instagram, there are still plenty of people using Flickr.
And if you're se... |
26 April 2012
09:50 GMT |
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Yahoo's new boss Scott Thomson may only be a few months into his job, but he's made an impact, not necessarily a good one. Yet another reorganization is underway, thousands of people have been laid off and more will be in the future.
Yahoo recently sued Facebook for patent infringement. And now the CEO tal... |
18 April 2012
09:11 GMT |
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Yahoo! customers may receive an email that purports to come from the company, informing them that their account has exceeded its limit. In reality, it’s nothing more than a scam designed to steal login credentials from unsuspecting users.
The scam is not new, but according to Hoax Slayer, it’s hitting in... |
17 April 2012
03:02 GMT |
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Formerly known as the Yahoo! Media Player, the Yahoo! WebPlayer is a multimedia player that can be embedded into any web page and playback audio and video files using Yahoo's platform.
The developer only has to point the link target to an MP3 file, Yahoo or YouTube video URL.
At page load, a small arrow is sho... |
16 April 2012
12:01 GMT |
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March has proved a very static month in the search market. Google and Bing stayed flat while only Yahoo lost 0.1 percentage points compared to February. Year over year, both Google and Bing increased their market share in the US, while Yahoo has lost quite a bit.Google ended March with 66.4 percent of the US search m... |
11 April 2012
14:11 GMT |
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Patents are becoming more valuable than technology, more valuable than engineers and more valuable than revenue in the tech world. In fact, it's starting to replace revenue for some companies it seems, as both AOL and Yahoo are hoping to cash in on their sizeable patent portfolio. The difference is, AOL already... |
10 April 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Aviary has been doing quite well for itself since it started exporting its technology. The SDK is quite popular and now Flickr is integrating Aviary as the built-in photo editor. Flickr users have been able to touch up their photos with the Picnik editor, but Google is shutting it down so Flickr went with Aviary inst... |
5 April 2012
05:40 GMT |
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Facebook has responded to Yahoo's patent lawsuit with one of its own. The social network is claiming that the ancient web giant is infringing on 10 of its patents, "its patents" being a relative term since most of them did not originate from within Facebook but were acquired along the way.
For years, but even m... |
4 April 2012
08:10 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced that, in a couple of months, it's shutting down Yahoo Meme, which you're probably hearing about for the first time. The site was Yahoo's take on Twitter though without the 140-character limitation, taking some cues from Tumblr as well. If you have heard about it or you're using... |
27 March 2012
09:11 GMT |
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Reluctantly perhaps, Facebook is starting to gear up for patent war. The company is said to have acquired some 750 patents from IBM, which has been doing quite a business selling hoards of patents to companies in need, Google in particular.
There's no official word on the deal or on the price. Judging by past t... |
23 March 2012
06:14 GMT |
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The most recent version for Yahoo Messenger is 11.5.0.192. We know that it has been available for download for about three weeks now, but the developer took it to their blog to post some details about it only recently.
The release sports mostly stability improvements and plugged some security holes. However, there a... |
14 March 2012
11:23 GMT |
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The not-so-veiled threats of a couple of weeks ago have materialized, Yahoo has sued Facebook for patent infringement. It dug up a list of 10 patents to hit Facebook with, not targeting particular features, but common functionality in the social network. Yahoo claims that it was first and that this counts for someth... |
13 March 2012
06:54 GMT |
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It's not much of a surprise or a revelation that Google dominates the search market. As much as Microsoft has been trying to change things, Google actually grew a bit in the last year, by one percentage point.
Google owned 66.4 percent of the search market in the US in February, according to comScore numbers. T... |
12 March 2012
09:54 GMT |
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Yahoo may finally be getting a revamp, after many years of "soul searching" with few tangible results. New CEO Scott Thomson isn't wasting any time and has started shaping Yahoo to his liking. Unfortunately, the resulting Yahoo may not be one most people are going to like, but it may at least be a functioning ... |
5 March 2012
07:42 GMT |
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Yahoo hasn't exactly given up on search, it just treats it differently. It's not a tool to enable people to find what they need, it's a tool to get as much Yahoo content and as many Yahoo sites in front of people as possible.
That's the cynical view at least, Yahoo's vision "answers, not lin... |
2 March 2012
10:11 GMT |
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Yahoo hasn't had the greatest runs in the last several years. It's been suffering from a lack of direction, lack of innovation and sagging interest and revenue. So what's a company like this to do? Well, it changed its CEO, that's a good move. The next move, the first big decision the new CEO take... |
28 February 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Both Google and Yahoo tried their luck with educated guesses on this year's Oscars. They relied on search data and past performance to try to find patterns that would lead them to the winners, before they were announced. Yahoo also had one of its entertainment editors predict the winners as well. Coincidence or ... |
28 February 2012
03:41 GMT |
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Yahoo Mail may not be the coolest webmail service around, but it's one of the biggest. The new Yahoo Mail, while still hated by some people, is rather slick and pretty useful. It's also very purple. In an effort to recover some of that "coolness" or just get people to remember that they have an Yahoo accoun... |
24 February 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Flickr, one of Yahoo's more interesting products that has been pretty stale for the past few years, is getting ready for a major revamp this year. The first changes will start to roll out in a few days, come March.
The updates will start with a new photo view, BetaBeat, which interviewed Flicker's Senior P... |
22 February 2012
06:41 GMT |
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The Oscars are almost here and fans and movie buffs alike are all placing their bets on who's going to win what. Everyone has their favorites, but Yahoo has data and the data doesn't lie.
Based on searches done in the first weeks of the year, up to February 5, Yahoo has compiled a list of favorites to the ... |
18 February 2012
10:31 GMT |
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The YSlow plugin has been fairly popular with developers and webmasters for years now. Yahoo has continued to support and update it, but it is facing some competition these days, notably from Page Speed, a similar tool from Google.
It may be because of the competition, or because Yahoo is looking to cut costs, or be... |
17 February 2012
08:41 GMT |
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Vulnerability Lab researchers released a proof-of-concept video to reveal a buffer overflow issue present in Yahoo Messenger, the popular instant messaging client. The high severity security hole was identified by Manideep, also known as z3r0 erR0R, who proved that when users try to send an image file on chat rooms ... |
11 February 2012
07:13 GMT |
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For some time now, Yahoo has used an algorithm to choose the news stories it shows on its homepage. It used to do it with human editors and there used to be just one homepage for everyone. Now, there are 13 million every day.
Yahoo uses a wide variety of info to pick the stories that it serves to any visitor. Based ... |
11 February 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Regardless of whether you're in the US or not, the Super Bowl is coming this weekend. And, regardless of whether you care or not, you're going to be hearing more about it.
In that vein, Yahoo has now shared some search stats leading up to the big match on Sunday, pitting the two NFL teams, the New York Gia... |
3 February 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Yahoo Mail underwent a big and somewhat painful revamp last year as a newer version replaced the one that had been around for years now. The New Yahoo Mail promised better performance and a few other enhancements, but it also relied more on Facebook and Twitter integration.
The upgrade went smoothly enough, consider... |
3 February 2012
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Borrowing a page out of Google's playbook, Yahoo has announced that it is focusing even more on mobile, by killing off a bunch of mobile apps. It's quite a long and somewhat surprising list, since it contains apps linked to some of Yahoo's most popular properties."We’re moving forward with a ... |
30 January 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Some of the major technology firms, including Google, Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo, joined their forces in creating a powerful email standard that should protect inboxes from spam and phishing messages.
DMARC, or Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance, is actually a technical specification created ... |
30 January 2012
08:19 GMT |
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Yahoo has released its fourth quarter financial results. They're not that bad, but that's considering that this is Yahoo. The company declined in both revenue and income numbers from the same period in the previous year. This happens while everyone else making money from ads is seeing growth. The slightly ... |
25 January 2012
09:01 GMT |
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Flickr has big plans this year, at least that's what it's saying in its "New Year's Cleaning" blog post. Big and wonderful new features are coming this year, but it's got to get rid of some of the older and rarely used ones first, it says.Flickr has compiled a list of features that are getting the... |
14 January 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Bing has done it, it's finally overtaken Yahoo Search. It may not be much of a victory, since Bing powers both search engines, but Microsoft will take anything it gets at this point. The software giant has been at it for many, many years and it has only now broken through the 15 percent market share mark. What&... |
12 January 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Now that Yahoo finally got a new CEO, it seems that the board is up for review. Rumors say that Yahoo is looking for new board members to replace at least several of the current ones.
Given that the Yahoo board is generally regarded as one of the most inefficient, to put it mildly, in the industry, that can only b... |
7 January 2012
07:11 GMT |
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It's official, Yahoo has announced that it has ended its search for a new CEO. It's been searching for one since September, when it ousted its former CEO Carol Bartz, even as the company has been involved in talks of a sale of the entire company or just its Asian assets.
Yahoo announced that, now former, P... |
4 January 2012
09:53 GMT |
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Yahoo has had a confusing past few months. Ever since it got rid of its CEO in September, the company's future has been unclear, to say the least. On the one hand, it has been looking for a replacement. On the other, it was looking for buyers as well, either for the whole company or just for its valuable Asian a... |
4 January 2012
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The new year has started and the celebrations are over. Once again, as always, people are looking for a fresh start and the rather arbitrary date coinciding with the new year is as good as any. New year resolutions are quite a 'tradition' around the world and it seems that one of the biggest things people/Y... |
3 January 2012
18:11 GMT |
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Google has managed to maintain its top spot as the most visited website in the US, at least according to Nielsen numbers. Facebook comes in at number two, but still has some way to go before challenging Google, since it just overtook Yahoo.Google amassed an average of 153 million US visitors per month in 2011, more t... |
29 December 2011
06:10 GMT |
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Google, Yahoo and Bing have revealed this year's top searches, as seen from their perspective. Google shows that "Google+" is the second fastest growing search term on the site. Yahoo revealed that the "iPhone" was the "top search term."
Bing doesn't have an overall top, but the most searched for person wa... |
23 December 2011
07:21 GMT |
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People may have mixed opinions about Facebook's auto-sharing, but Yahoo couldn't love it more. It's easy to understand why, Yahoo boasts that 12 of the top 40 most shared stories of 2011 on Facebook originated from its sites.
And it has paid off for Yahoo, its Yahoo News traffic coming from Facebook ... |
22 December 2011
04:21 GMT |
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Flickr has unveiled its regular Year in Photos gallery. In 2011, 18 hand-picked pics, all posted by Flickr users, highlight the big events of the year around the world and in the US.
It starts with the Arab revolutions of the spring and goes through natural disasters like the Japan earthquake and tsunami or a tornad... |
20 December 2011
10:51 GMT |
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Yahoo Messenger 11.5 was introduced a couple of weeks ago. The instant messaging client added quite a few features and changes, some of which have been requested for a lot of time. The latest update also brought support for a new language, Yahoo Messenger became available in Romanian for the first time.Yahoo is now m... |
19 December 2011
08:03 GMT |
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Google may be dominating the search space globally, but 'dominate' can mean quite a different thing from country to country. In the US, Google has about 65 percent of the market. In the UK, its share is at over 90 percent.
While it has been stuck at that level for a lot of time, having gained just 0.68 per... |
15 December 2011
09:54 GMT |
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