Posts Tagged ‘Yahoo!’

Microsoft’s Bing might be coming up the ranks as it continues month after month gradually wearing down Google’s control over search traffic.

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Struggling Yahoo finally released the Livestand for iPad news reading app that was first announced way back in February. Yahoo discusses the technical details of the server and client technologies developed and used for the app in their developer blog.

Google’s rumored iPad mobile aggregation app has been discussed since September while Yahoo!’s Livestand was announced way back in February. All Things D reports that both Livestand and Propeller are expected to be available for the iPad and Android tablets (the latter in the case of Propeller).

Yahoo started the bidding process in the first place, and is now completely out of the picture because of recent strategic reviews.

There’s one company NOBODY wants to work for

With cloud computing growing in popularity and more web applications are being used with the system to store data and files online, Google made a wise decision to give its Desktop application the golden handshake.

Yahoo issued a statement late Thursday confirming its removal of Carol Bartz after the news was first reported by blog AllThingsD from an email Bartz sent to her former staff at Yahoo. She wrote that the Yahoo’s Chairman of the Board fired her over the phone.

Yahoo’s original video programming is a part of that success. Variety reports, the company claims nearly all of the top 10 most-watched original series online like “Primetime in No Time,” a highlight reel of TV’s most memorable moments from the previous night.

We’re practically brothers; Facebook and Yahoo join forces to test the “six degree of separation” theory, and you can participate.

An interesting and rather clever social media move by Pepsi was buying competitive keywords that resulted YouTube searches for “Coca-Cola” generating a sponsored link to the Pepsi polar bear spot. Of course, Coca-Cola retaliated and searches were redirected to coca-cola.com.