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GeoCities is no more – from hero to zero in a decade

Dave Parrack — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:15:42 +0000

In 1999, when the Web was still merely a small part of some people’s lives rather than the behemoth it is today, GeoCities [...]

Carl Icahn leaves the Yahoo board

Michael W. Jones — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:04:28 +0000

Carl Icahn, who led a stockholder revolt at Yahoo aimed at taking over the board of directors, changing the management team, and selling to Microsoft, has resigned from the Yahoo board.

Depending on the point of [...]

Hotmail phishing scam may also affect AOL, Gmail and Yahoo

John Lister — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:23:37 +0000

Scammers who put together a list of 10,000 stolen Hotmail passwords may also be responsible for collecting 20,000 passwords from other e-mail providers. AOL, Comcast, Earthlink, Gmail and Yahoo are all said to be affected.

Microsoft confirmed last night that some [...]

Bing and Wolfram Alpha strike a deal

Michael W. Jones — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:09:13 +0000

Microsoft has finalized a pact with Wolfram Alpha that will allow their Bing search engine to display some of the specialized scientific search results returned by the Wolfram engine.

Search engines Wolfram Alpha and [...]

Microsoft CEO belittles Apple and Linux in one speech

Mike Ferro — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:08:10 +0000

In a discussion around Microsoft’s deal with Yahoo, Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft made some interesting comments against competitors, Apple and Linux. Ballmer indicated that unlike its competitors, Microsoft has established [...]

Now search-free, can Yahoo become king of content?

Michael W. Jones — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:34:10 +0000

After years of on and off romances, Yahoo has finally married of it’s search daughter to Microsoft. What remains is for Yahoo to select a new direction, probably in pursuit of [...]

Microsoft Yahoo deal finally complete, but not the merger it once was

Sean P. Aune — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:05:30 +0000

After years of speculation and rumor, Microsoft and Yahoo have finally reached a deal to pool the collective resources of the companies, but it isn’t the deal we had expected. Back in late [...]

Yahoo redesign – Homepage becomes social network portal

Dave Parrack — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:57:29 +0000

Yahoo has been an integral part of the Web for as long as most of us have been using it. But the Yahoo homepage that was once [...]

Carl Icahn favors Yahoo-Microsoft deal

Michael W. Jones — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:57:17 +0000

As the rumors fly that Yahoo and Microsoft are very near to reaching a deal on a search partnership, Yahoo activist board member Carl Icahn continues his advocacy of such a deal.

Icahn, who owns about 5 percent [...]

Twitter document leak combined system and human errors

John Lister — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:15:50 +0000

A recent leak of internal Twitter documents has been portrayed as a weakness in the entire concept of online software such as Google Apps. But, like so many technical problems, it appears human imperfections may be to blame.

The leak involved [...]