Tag: Yahoo
Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer, No Longer Considers BlackBerrys Smartphones
In September, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said that she would give every employee a new smartphone of their choice, as long as it’s not a...
Apple Acquires Particle, A Celebrity-Backed Web App Firm
Apple has acquired another company, this time a creative consultancy firm that specializes in HTML5 and web app design, according to CNET. The firm, Particle,...
Flickr May Not Be Dead After All, Marissa Mayer Doubles Down
It seems like Yahoo! still has an interest in Flickr after all, despite years of stagnation and the popularity of competitors like 500px and other...
Nvidia Investigating Release Of Encrypted Passwords, Advises Password Changes
Nvidia is currently investigating the release of encrypted passwords from its user forums. This is another data breach, following other websites that were also recently...
“D33DS Company” Leaks 453,492 Yahoo! Accounts
Have you ever written an article for Yahoo! Voices (formally Associated Content)? If so, your username and password was recently leaked by a group of...
Yahoo Narrowing Choices For CEO Spot
Yahoo, one of the most beleaguered hangers-on from the .com era, is still looking into which person they are are going to put in the...
5-Star App Store Reviews For Yahoo’s Axis, As Posted By Yahoo
How bad does Yahoo want you to like their new mobile web browser, Axis? Apparently they want it bad enough to write their own reviews...
Apple Snags Yahoo Executive For iAd Team
Apple has poached Jessica Jensen from Yahoo, and it’s being speculated that Jensen will be taking a job working under former Yahoo and Adobe advertsing...
Yahoo! Messenger brings free video and audio calls to iPhone
Yahoo! Messenger, which just reached version 2.0, has brought both audio and video calls to their iOS application. It looks as if this video calling...
Batter up: Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball ’10
Thanks to the mobile Internet, armchair sports are no longer confined to, well, the armchair. Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball ’10, developed by Yahoo! Inc. (of course),...
Sync Contacts with Address Book now available to everyone.
Sync Google Contacts with Address Book We’ve talked about the benefits of syncing your information with the cloud before, and our opinions remain the same....
Yahoo Messenger Application
Yahoo recently released an iPhone and iPod Touch application for their Yahoo! Messenger service. The application, while being 1.0, is quite good. During my testing,...
Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Apple?
There’s much buzz in the Valley over Google’s leap into the proposed MS/Yahoo deal. WSJ has particularly good reporting on Google’s interest and maneuvers in...