Pin Itemailprint Here’s a big news item from Yahoo! It can now be reported that Jerry Yang, the company’s co-founder, has resigned from the company he helped create, only to watch it struggle in recent years. Yahoo! has just issued the following statement: Yahoo! Announces Resignation of Jerry Yang SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan 17, 2012 (BUSINESS [...]
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Yahoo named Scott Thompson, the former President of PayPal, its new CEO early this morning. The official change will be effective as of January 9. Thompson enters the fold after former CEO Carol Bartz was fired in September. Since that time, CFO Tim Morse has been acting as interim CEO. Bartz was reportedly fired by [...]
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Facebook continues to dominate every corner of the web. In fact, the term “Facebook” was the most-searched term of 2011, according to Experian Hitwise. This was the third consecutive year that Facebook placed at the top of the annual list. The company’s name accounted for 3.1 percent of all searches in 2011, a 46 percent [...]
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Paula Chase died two years ago of nearly untreatable scleroderma, but her email account is apparently alive and not-so-well. Paula’s children have been getting slammed by a slew of spammy emails from their dead mother’s account. They’re unable to stop it, and every other day another email from the hacker hits their inboxes. “Male enhancement!” [...]
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It seems like Facebook finds itself embroiled in some kind of controversy regarding user tracking and/or privacy just about every other month lately, so it should come as no surprise that the social networking giant is once again under the microscope. Facebook officials are now acknowledging that the service has been able to create a [...]
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If you’re tired of being stuck with Google, Yahoo, and Bing when it comes to searching on the web, MC Hammer might have just the thing for you. The rapper-turned-entrepreneur is working on a new search engine that will compete with the big boys. It’s called WireDoo. Hammer introduced WireDoo at the Web 2.0 Summit [...]
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A day after firing CEO Carol Bartz, it now appears that Yahoo is putting itself up for sale. The person who gave the inside scoop to the Wall Street Journal on the Bartz firing also told the paper that “Yahoo is open to selling itself to the right bidder.” In other words, Yahoo is for [...]
In a rather sudden move, Carol Bartz was just fired as CEO of Yahoo. CFO Tim Morse has been named interim CEO. The exact reason for Bartz’s departure is unclear at this hour, but she’s faced a rough road during her 30 months with the company. Bartz also sent a shocking email to staff, informing [...]
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Julian Assange, founder of the controversial WikiLeaks website, recently sat down for an interview with Russia Today and made some shocking claims about some of your favorite websites and social networks. Responding to a question about what role social networks have played in the recent revolutions in the Middle East, Assange said the following: “Facebook, [...]
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Good news, Delicious junkies. Yahoo has finally sold the popular social bookmarking service to YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. The two have apparently formed a new internet venture called AVOS. The two aren’t revealing much about what AVOS will be, but their press release says they’re trying to “develop innovative features to help [...]
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This is why you don’t mess with someone who knows SEO (Search Engine Optimization). It seems a fine, young man named Jack Weppler dumped his girlfriend without realizing quite how Google-savvy she was. The angry, scorned girl in question then took a professional photo of poor Jack and ran it through memgenerator.net, oh I don’t [...]
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The 2011 State of the Union will be unlike any other when it comes to interactivity. President Barack Obama will deliver the annual State of the Union address tonight at 9 p.m. EST. Obama’s speech is expected to be about one hour in length based on previous years. UPDATE: You can view video of the [...]
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