PayPal’s Scott Thompson Named CEO of Yahoo
By Paul Thomson :: 12:24 PM Yahoo has named the 54-year-old president of PayPal, Scott Thompson, as its next CEO. Thompson will take the helm of the struggling tech company on January 9th, and will...
View ArticleGoogle Turns 14
By Cynthia Herbert :: 1:24 AM Happy Birthday to search giant Google – 14 years old today! In true celebratory fashion, Google is recognizing its birthday with a commemorative birthday cake Google...
View ArticleYahoo.com Introduces Redesigned Home Page
By Gilbert Falso :: 9:23 AM Search and web portal company Yahoo.com today unveiled a newly redesigned home page – the first overhaul the site’s front page has received in nearly four years. It’s hard...
View ArticleYahoo Employees No Longer Allowed to Work From Home
By Paul Thomson :: 3:52 PM Yahoo’s new CEO Marissa Mayer has reportedly pulled the plug on work-at-home arrangements within the company. Mayer has introduced a new plan with Yahoo’s Human Resources...
View ArticleReactions and Memo from Yahoo! Regarding Working at Home
By Gilbert Falso :: 8:51 AM On Friday, we reported that Yahoo’s new CEO, Marissa Mayer, was making sweeping changes at the company regarding employee work-at-home flexibility. In short, she and Yahoo...
View ArticleYahoo Cutting Some Older Products
By Paul Thomson :: 1:19 PM Yahoo! is continuing to make drastic changes under the leadership of new CEO Marissa Mayer as the company announced on Friday that it would be killing off some of its older,...
View ArticleTop Sites for Building Brackets Online
By Gilbert Falso :: 5:01 PM Ah, March. When college basketball fans everywhere turn to one thing – brackets! One thing that digital and social media have made much easier over the past several years is...
View ArticleYahoo Partners with Dropbox to Bring Service to Mail Users
By Gilbert Falso :: 1:19 PM Yahoo Mail users will soon have integrated access to the cloud storage features of Dropbox, due to a new partnership announced between the two companies today. The...
View ArticleAnonymous Hacks North Korean Social Sites
By Gilbert Falso :: 10:06 AM The hacking group Anonymous has announced that it successfully breached several of North Korea’s social media accounts that it uses for propaganda spreading purposes. In...
View ArticleYahoo Introduces New Apps for Mail and Weather
By Paul Thomson :: 5:41 PM Yahoo today announced that it has introduced new mobile apps for its Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Weather products. The company’s new e-mail app debuts for tablets, both the iPad and...
View ArticleYahoo Acquires Astrid To-Do List App
By Paul Thomson :: 8:57 AM Yahoo yesterday announced the acquisition of Astrid, a mobile application that provides personal assistant functions and offers to-do list management. The deal includes both...
View ArticleYahoo’s Marissa Mayer Sports Rainbow Streaks
By Cynthia Herbert :: 11:39 PM Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, went a little punk tonight. As an attendee at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art annual Costume Institute Gala, the 37-year old Mayer...
View ArticleWhat to Expect: Yahoo, Tumblr Deal Tonight
By Cynthia Herbert :: 1:59 PM If all of the news so far has been correct, Yahoo’s board of directors will meet tonight to discuss, and likely approve, the company’s $1.1 billion acquisition offer for...
View ArticleWordPress Sees Influx of Tumblr Blogs
By Paul Thomson :: 4:29 PM With the Yahoo acquisition of blogging service Tumblr yesterday, competing blog host, WordPress.com reported an uptick in the number of blogs imported into its system. Matt...
View ArticleTumblr Positions Advertisements on Dashboards
By Gilbert Falso :: 5:08 PM The ink isn’t even dry on Yahoo’s purchase contract for Tumblr, and already changes are afoot at the blogging site. Today, Tumblr announced the addition of advertising...
View ArticleMicrowave iPhone Charging Hoax Makes Rounds of ‘Net
By Paul Thomson :: 2:02 AM A new hoax is making the rounds of the Internet, spreading on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook, and targeting unwitting teens and young iPhone and iPod touch users. The hoax...
View ArticleNSA PRISM Program Mines Online, Social Media Data
By Gilbert Falso :: 7:44 PM In a discovery that leaves privacy advocates and many Americans reeling, for the second time in as many days, a National Security Agency (NSA) program that gathers data on...
View ArticleYahoo to Recycle Dormant Email Accounts
By Gilbert Falso :: 1:46 AM In a controversial move that has cyber security experts concerned, Yahoo is making plans to recycle unused Yahoo Mail accounts that have gone dormant for at least one year....
View ArticleYahoo.com Currently Down for Many Users
By Cynthia Herbert :: 9:28 PM The Yahoo.com website and many Yahoo services, such as Yahoo Mail are currently down for some users in North America. Yahoo’s problems seem to be centered with one of...
View ArticleYahoo Acquires Rockmelt – Will Shut Down Browser
By Gilbert Falso :: 2:22 PM Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer is extending her empire building streak – Yahoo today announced the acquisition of the company behind the social web browser Rockmelt. The purchase,...
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