New Delhi: Yahoo India has announced the launch of 'Justified view' feature for Groups on Flickr, and also introduced 'API Methods' and direct upload of photographs on the Groups through Uploadr. With the new Justified layout to Flickr Groups, the earlier white space has been done away with, and now features a more visually stunning arrangement of photos. A new side bar provides information on the Group, including the latest...
11:45 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Oro Valley: The summer travel season has arrived, and with gas prices going down, it's time to plan a road trip. For a Memorial Day weekend trip to Arizona, I checked four free services that provide driving directions - Google, Yahoo, AOL's MapQuest and Microsoft's Bing. I made it from Phoenix's airport to a friend's wedding outside Tucson without getting lost, and I made several sightseeing stops along the way...
10:47 AM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: Facebook India's plea for dropping its name from a suit for action against social networking websites for hosting alleged objectionable content was on Wednesday dismissed by a Delhi court which held it cannot be said that the company has no say in running the site facebook.com. Administrative Civil Judge Parveen Singh dismissed the company's plea for deletion of its name, rejecting its contention that Facebook India does not...
04:23 AM, May 31, 2012
San Francisco: Yahoo has killed Livestand, a tablet magazine, just six months after its debut on the iPad. The decision announced Friday is part of the struggling Internet company's latest turnaround effort. Last month, Yahoo Inc. told analysts it would close or combine about 50 services that haven't been performing up to expectations. That housecleaning plan was drawn up by Yahoo's former CEO, Scott Thompson, who lasted at the company...
10:24 AM, May 26, 2012
San Francisco: Joining the battle to redefine Internet search, Yahoo is taking aim with a new browser enhancement it calls "Axis". It alters browsers made by other companies to display search results in a more convenient and visual format. The troubled Internet company Yahoo Inc. released Axis in Apple's app store late Wednesday. That version will work only on Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The software also can be...
07:14 AM, May 25, 2012
Hong Kong: Yahoo Inc. has agreed to sell half of its 40 per cent stake in Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba for about $7.1 billion, securing a financial lifeline for the struggling US Internet company. The deal, announced Sunday in the US, will see Alibaba Group buying back the stake from Yahoo Inc. for $6.3 billion cash and up to $800 million of Alibaba preference shares. The announcement caps at least...
10:10 AM, May 21, 2012
New York: Yahoo's former chief executive Scott Thompson, who quit the Internet firm recently amid allegations of manipulating his resume, will not be entitled to a severance package. Severance package are benefits an employees receives on leaving the company in addition to regular pay. Thompson, who took over the reins of once-dominant Yahoo in January, quit the company on Sunday. He was in negotiations with Yahoo over his separation agreement...
12:22 PM, May 16, 2012
San Francisco: Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Scott Thompson has stepped down after a controversy over a fake computer science college degree on his biography, the third CEO in three years to leave the Internet company struggling to define its future. The departure is a victory for hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb of Third Point LLC, which is one of Yahoo's largest outside shareholders and brought the discrepancy in Thompson's educational...
07:06 AM, May 14, 2012
New York: Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Scott Thompson is stepping down after a controversy over a fake computer science college degree on his biography, according to the blog AllthingsD. Thompson's interim replacement will likely be Yahoo's global media head Ross Levinson. Yahoo's board is also closing in on a settlement with activist shareholder Daniel Loeb of Third Point, who discovered Thompson's misstep, AllthingsD said. ...
10:58 PM, May 13, 2012
San Francisco: Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Scott Thompson, at the centre of a row over his educational qualifications, told his top executives on Thursday he never provided a resume or incorrect information to Yahoo, a source familiar with the situation said. Thompson held a meeting with senior staff to address the controversy that erupted a week ago, and has caused turmoil at the struggling Internet company and raised questions about...
11:54 AM, May 11, 2012
San Francisco: Yahoo Inc's board convened on Monday afternoon to discuss the mounting upset surrounding Chief Executive Scott Thompson, who has apologised to employees after being accused last week by activist investor Daniel Loeb of padding his resume, a source with knowledge of the matter said. The source, who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the issue, said the board meeting was expected to address aspects of...
10:58 AM, May 08, 2012
San Francisco: Yahoo has confirmed a shareholder's allegation that its chief executive officer (CEO) Scott Thompson did not have a computer science degree as claimed, saying that it is "an inadvertent error". "Scott Thompson's degree at Stonehill College was in bachelor science in accounting. There was an inadvertent error that stated Thompson also holds a degree in computer science," said Yahoo in a statement to technology news site AllThingsD. "This,...
11:51 AM, May 05, 2012
San Francisco: Yahoo Inc could be weeks away from selling 15 to 25 per cent of Alibaba Group's stock back to China's largest e-commerce company, in a deal designed to eliminate complexities that had scuttled the parties' previous negotiations, a person familiar with the matter said. The two companies have been in talks for a month, the person said, but cautioned that there is no guarantee a deal will be...
11:20 AM, May 05, 2012
San Francisco: Yahoo is bringing out more artillery in its patent battle with Facebook. It is adding new allegations of intellectual property theft to its six-week-old lawsuit against Facebook. In court papers filed Friday, Yahoo Inc. now says Facebook's online social network infringes on 12 of its Internet patents, up from 10. Yahoo also denied allegation that it has been infringing on 10 of Facebook's patents and accused its rival...
12:26 PM, Apr 30, 2012
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