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Yahoo wins lottery jackpot but won’t see a cent

John Lister — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:14:10 +0000

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.

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Google calls Siri a serious threat

Susan Wilson — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:04:57 +0000

Google’s Chairman called Siri a “competitive threat” to its search business. Of course, this [...] Related posts:

‘Sometimes you’re lucky,’ says Ballmer and he’s right

Ronald O Carlson — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:10:15 +0000

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 [...] Related posts:

There is no Google monopoly, says Google tool

Ronald O Carlson — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:34:15 +0000

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 [...] Related posts:

AOL & Yahoo – A marriage made in Hell

Dave Parrack — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:22:10 +0000

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 [...] Related posts:

Google search ‘failure’ claims raise questions

John Lister — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:37:13 +0000

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.

The data comes from Experian Hitwise, alongside its main market share figures that show of all US searches [...] Related posts:

Microsoft to buy Skype

Michael W. Jones — Tue, 10 May 2011 17:41:29 +0000

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.

This is yet another attempt by Microsoft [...] Related posts:

Has Yahoo found “the future of search”?

John Lister — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:00:56 +0000

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.

The new tool, Search Direct, has several “instant” [...] Related posts:

Facebook beats Yahoo to become third-largest site behind Microsoft & Google

Dave Parrack — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 22:33:05 +0000

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 [...] Related posts:

Yahoo allows Delicious to live on!

Michael W. Jones — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:39:42 +0000

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 [...] Related posts: