New York: Yahoo may be on the verge of closing its biggest acquisition during the 10-month reign of CEO Marissa Mayer as she tries to attract more traffic and advertisers to the Internet company's website and mobile applications.
The Sunnyvale, Calif, company's board of directors will meet on Sunday evening to consider approving a $1.1 billion acquisition of online content-sharing site Tumblr in a deal Mayer negotiated, according to the technology news site All Things D. The story posted late Friday cited anonymous sources.
If Yahoo Inc's board signs off, the deal could be announced on Monday.
In an invitation sent on Friday, Yahoo promised to unveil "something special" on Monday evening in New York. The event is being held in a Times Squares lounge located about two miles from Tumblr's headquarters....
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11:50 PM, May 19, 2013
London: The Financial Times' website and Twitter feeds were hacked on Friday, renewing questions about whether the popular social media service has done enough to tighten security as cyber-attacks on the news media intensify. The Syrian Electronic Army, an online group that supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was behind the incident which followed a phishing attack on the company's email accounts, FT reported on its website. The attack is the...
12:46 PM, May 18, 2013
New York: Don't worry, Pinterest fans: Your sprawling virtual pegboards of wedding dresses, handmade jewellery, craft projects and food porn haven't changed dramatically. They're just easier to manage. The popular link- and photo-sharing website has rolled out an update, one offering people simpler navigation and new ways to arrange their boards to fit their needs. Although the haphazard spirit of Pinterest remains, the site is much less overwhelming. I wasn't...
08:45 AM, May 09, 2013
New Delhi: On the 20th birth anniversary of the World Wide Web, CERN, a European research organisation near Geneva, has announced to preserve some of the digital assets that are associated with the birth of the web. The URL to the world's first website - info.cern.ch - has already been restored, and now the organisation will look at the first web servers at CERN and see what assets from them...
04:23 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: Three Navy officers are being terminated from service for divulging secret information on social networking websites such as Facebook and the primary reason for these cases of indiscipline was "moral turpitude", the Defence Ministry has informed a Parliamentary panel. It also told the Standing Committee on Defence that in three cases of face-offs between troops and officers in the Army, the forces have taken action against 219 officers,...
09:11 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Dubai: The International Cricket Council on Tuesday announced the launch of an archive website which will have footages of ICC events dating back from 1975 World Cup to the latest Women's World Cup 2013. The website, www.iccarchive.com, is the definitive online search engine of past ICC Events, the world body said in a release. With over 3,000 hours of the greatest moments from ICC events and digital transfer capability, there...
09:15 AM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: Over six million new domain names were registered in the October-December period of 2012, taking the total number of registered domain names to 252 million worldwide, says a report. "...more than six million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2012, bringing the total number of registered domain names to more than 252 million worldwide across all top-level domains as of December 31,...
04:33 PM, Apr 09, 2013
London: Capturing the unruly, ever-changing Internet is like trying to pin down a raging river. But the British Library is going to try. For centuries the library has kept a copy of every book, pamphlet, magazine and newspaper published in Britain. Starting Saturday, it will also be bound to record every British website, e-book, online newsletter and blog in a bid to preserve the nation's "digital memory." As if that's...
12:32 PM, Apr 06, 2013
Google Inc's YouTube said on Thursday the number of unique users visiting the video-sharing website every month has reached 1 billion, about six months after social media company Facebook Inc also said it had the same amount of users. ...
10:02 AM, Mar 21, 2013
A website in the US has posted crucial personal details of celebrities like Hillary Clinton and Tiger Woods, which include their financial detail, credit card debt and mortgage information. ...
06:05 PM, Mar 16, 2013
Government has blocked a total of 254 URLs (web addresses) or uniform resource locators in 2013, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. Of the total URLs blocked, 60 URLs were of sites hosting videos of the film Innocence of Muslims and 194 URLs were blocked in compliance of court orders, Minister of State for Communication and IT Milind Deora said in a written reply to Lok Sabha. ...
07:21 PM, Mar 13, 2013
The government has ordered a probe into reports that Chinese hackers targeted sensitive government files. Hundreds of sites are among those said to have been hacked. The DRDO though denied any of its sites were targeted. ...
04:05 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Mumbai based Divyanshu Asopa's website, confessions.21fools.com deals with real life confessions of anonymous people. ...
01:43 PM, Mar 13, 2013
The United States was the origin of more than half of the hacking attacks on China in the first two months of 2013, state news agency Xinhua said on Sunday, amid escalating tensions between Beijing and Washington over the use of the Internet. Beijing and Washington have been squaring off for months over the issue of cyber attacks, each accusing the other of hacking into sensitive government websites. ...
06:24 PM, Mar 10, 2013
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sushma Swaraj was voted as the most admired female politician followed by Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa in a survey conducted by shaadi.com. ...
01:56 PM, Mar 07, 2013
The Pakistan government will decide in a couple of days whether to lift a ban on YouTube that was imposed for hosting clips from a controversial anti-Islam film, a federal minister said on Wednesday. Defence Minister Naveed Qamar told the National Assembly or lower house of parliament that the government is "seriously considering to unblock the video-sharing website". ...
08:43 PM, Mar 06, 2013
In a new crackdown on online pornography, China has shut down 225 websites and other content sharing and social media sites, the government said. ...
10:52 AM, Feb 28, 2013
The court order had asked Director General of Indian Computer Emergency Response Team to block 78 web pages including that of University Grant Commission (UGC). ...
06:51 AM, Feb 28, 2013
Google is the most trusted online brand in the country, with Facebook coming in at number two, says a study by Brand Trust Advisory. Yahoo has emerged as the second-most trusted search engine after Google, says the report. ...
11:00 PM, Feb 25, 2013
A threat of Hyderabad-like blasts to avenge the hanging of Afzal Guru was posted on the website of Bihar Tourism department after it was attacked by hackers Saturday morning. Bihar Tourism minister Sunil Kumar Pintu said the website www.bihartourism.gov.in remained hacked from morning till 2:30 pm. ...
06:18 PM, Feb 23, 2013
