Apparently, Yahoo is going to try to acquire its turnaround plan. Since Marissa Mayer took over in July of 2012, Yahoo has made 11 small acquisitions, or acquihires, and one big one — the $1.1 billion purchase of Tumblr. But, she's not close to being finished acquiring. Yahoo bid on Hulu, offe... Read more...
You know how you can sign-in to new mobile apps and Websites using your Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, or Yahoo IDs? Janrain, a provider of social login services, says that the most popular option last quarter continues to be Facebook, by an increasingly wider margin. It's just more proof that Face... Read more...
We believe that Siri is Apple's not-so-surreptitious way to ultimately cut Google from our lives. But, for now, Siri just increases our use of Google. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster did a test of 800 search queries on Siri and found that 60% of the results were Google based. The rest came from ... Read more...
When you buy an advertisement, there are some things you can't control. You can purchase certain billboards or sections of magazines, but you can't always be sure what content your ad will run alongside. Online content is a little easier to control, but sometimes keyword targeting backfires. ... Read more...
A woman Austin movie theater was warned twice to stop texting during a screening. When she refused to comply, the staff of the Alamo Drafthouse kicked her out. She was pissed, and left an angry voice mail on the theater's phone line. So as Yahoo's The Lookout reports, the Alamo Drafthous... Read more...
Google has made no bones about its not-so-modest intention to “organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” It turns out, unsurprisingly, Microsoft has similar ambitions and is planning to “index every database in the world and expose it in a structur... Read more...
Seattle Times Earlier in December, co-founder of Microsoft Paul Allen decided that it would be a good idea to sue Apple, Google, Facebook, eBay, AOL, Netflix, Yahoo, Google’s YouTube, OfficeMax, Office Depot and Staples for violation of one of his patents. The patent in question relates to s... Read more...
With the fate of the $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile by AT&T in Washington's hands, all the big tech players are moving their pawns. And now the Computer & Communications Industry Association, a trade group that includes Google, Microsoft, eBay, Yahoo and Facebook, has come out aga... Read more...