Yahoo has been awarded $610 million in damages from scammers who used its name for a bogus lottery. But the firm has about as much chance of winning the top prize in a real lottery as collecting the cash.
Google’s Chairman called Siri a “competitive threat” to its search business. Of course, this comment was made to the U.S. Senate Antitrust Subcommittee but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t a grain of truth in that statement along with a lot of hyperbole.
Always quotable and controversial, the Microsoft CEO set tongues wagging by saying his company was lucky Yahoo hadn’t agreed to its price back in 2008. Ouch, kind of sucks to be the once dominant search (and a lot of whatever) company. The thing is, if you go beyond the soundbite, Ballmer’s being perfectly sensible.
Or, if you prefer, “Mr. Schmidt’s paid FTC mouthpiece goes to Washington.” Yeah, that’s a brutal assessment, but what else do you call a person who was a farmer and has now become the fox, or at the very least, the fox’s paid representative? And, when I say paid I mean paid a lot more than when she was a farmer.
There is a serious possibility that AOL and Yahoo could do a deal which would see these two aging Web giants come together. But is one dying Web giant any better than two dying Web giants? I don’t see how.
Newly published statistics appear to show Google is considerably less accurate than its major rivals. But it’s unclear whether other factors may have influenced the results.
As has been widely rumored over the past few days, Microsoft has agreed to purchase Skype. The amount of the acquisition sets a new record for such purchases by Microsoft, a total of $8.5 billion.
Yahoo has launched an experimental feature designed to return answers before the user has finished typing the question. It’s along the lines of Google’s Instant Search tool, but with the results better organized.
Topping off a fine year for the company and the website, Facebook has become the third-largest site on the Web. And it’s even catching up on Microsoft and Google, the aging giants who have held the top two spots for years now.
It would appear that Yahoo has been paying attention to the loud cries of “You can’t do that!” which it engendered by letting it be known that it was going to let Delicious die and has decided to help it live.
Is it too early to start looking back on 2010? After all, there is still almost a month left until the calendars will tick over to 2011. Yahoo, Bing, and AOL don’t believe so.
HP has a new entry in its Photosmart series called the HP Photosmart eStation Printer. The printer is an all-in-one unit that has a detachable 7-inch full color touchscreen. The touchscreen “doubles as a wireless digital companion and control panel for remote printing.”
Yahoo is no longer the brash young company, and instead looks more and more like a gutted parody of itself. What is left for Yahoo in a Web world dominated by Google, Microsoft, and other big players?
It may not yet be at the level of Google, but Twitter is now recording more searches than Bing and Yahoo combined.
Yahoo has acquired Associated Content in a deal thought to be worth around $100 million. But what will it do with those 380,000 contributors, 50,000 pieces of content a month, and 16 million page views?
For a CEO who doesn’t like people suggesting what her company should or shouldn’t be doing, Yahoo’s Carol Bartz sure likes voicing her opinion on other Web companies, namely Google and Facebook.
Three organizations have filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against Google and Yahoo’s use of consumer data. The complaint comes from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (a national alliance of state consumer groups), the Center for Digital Democracy and the World Privacy Forum.
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