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Yahoo bribes 1,500 "half" employees with conditional severance

Matt Jansen — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:01:53 +0000

Yahoo has endured a downward spiral for quite a while now and it’s a combination of vacant leadership and a poor economy. Slimming down to survive is [...]

The new rich are banking on YouTube advertising revenues

Matt Jansen — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:34:22 +0000

It might sound easy: post a couple of videos on YouTube then sit back and relax as millions of hits roll in and cash from [...]

Hewlett Packard jumps toward green with new lithium-ion battery

Matt Jansen — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:33:35 +0000

Mobile devices and green technology are two hot topics right now as consumers demand functionality on the go that doesn’t trash the environment. Hewlett Packard [...]

Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox neck and neck on JavaScript

Matt Jansen — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:41:27 +0000

Mozilla Firefox began as a thorn in Microsoft’s side when Netscape finally bit the dust, and now Google Chrome is taking over the [...]

Google launches Gmail tasks in the wake of I Want Sandy’s death

Matt Jansen — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:56:03 +0000

The timing is serendipitous. As an entire group of I Want Sandy refugees are searching for a replacement task [...]

Facebook looking to compete with Google’s YouTube too?

Matt Jansen — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:10:08 +0000

Facebook and Google seem to be ramming against each other more lately. Earlier this week the two battled over social network platforms and now Facebook has launched higher quality, [...]

Facebook Connect trying to conquer Google, and the web

Matt Jansen — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:25:29 +0000

Facebook already has a great corner of the market when it comes to social networking, and so far there’s no sign of that progress slowing [...]

Techmeme news aggregator embraces its human heritage

Matt Jansen — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:00:53 +0000

In a fundamental shift in its approach to aggregating news, Techmeme is putting human editors on the job. In particular, titles generated by computers don’t seem to be as [...]

Put that mobile phone down! Driving & using phone is bad news

Matt Jansen — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:53:04 +0000

Mobile phones keep getting better by packing more functionality into a small form. But we’ve all come to expect [...]

Google nemesis Baidu faces a new legal battle at home

Matt Jansen — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:44:33 +0000

Have you looked at a set of search page results lately where you couldn’t tell which links were sponsored and which were organic? [...]