SUNNYVALE, California -- Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), the premier digital media company, today announced that Jerry Yang has resigned from its Board of Directors and all other positions with the company, effective today. In addition, Yang resigned from the Boards of Yahoo Japan Corporation and Alibaba Group Holding Limited, effective today. In a letter to the Yahoo! Board Chairman Roy Bostock, Yang wrote: "My time at Yahoo!, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of Continue Reading

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), the premier digital media company, today announced the appointment of Scott Thompson as Chief Executive Officer, effective January 9, 2012 , at which time Tim Morse will resume his role as Chief  Financial Officer. Thompson has also been appointed to the Company's Board of Directors, effective January 9, 2012. Last year Yahoo fired Carol Bartz and Tim Morse was serving as interim CEO. Thompson served most recently as President of PayPal, a Continue Reading

Yahoo is still one of the biggest tech companies in the world. Despite its recent fall back in innovation due to pathetic board, its recently been rumored to be on sale again.Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson is now raising money to buy Yahoo and offering you to become its board member. But there is a twist to the story. According to business insider, he is not going for equity firms instead he is asking the general public for $500 cash.Lawson has started a WePay donations page seeking $18 billion. If in Continue Reading

Yahoo has launched new verticals today focusing on food recipes, shopping and entertainment searches. The holiday season closing up Yahoo, one of the largest search destinations for many, is trying to close the gap with Google. If you search for a food item + recipes, a window will appear on top of the search results page with popular choices from “leading food sites”.   1) You can filer the recipe via a slider with top-rated recipes from AllRecipes.com and other sources 2) a Filter Continue Reading

Yahoo is one of the worlds biggest platforms despite the companies downslide in the Social market, it keeps popping up with brilliant ideas. And the idea of IntoNow is some what quite brilliant. IntoNow from Yahoo! introduces a true TV companion experience with synchronized news headlines, in-depth sports stats, and tweets from your favorite actors. Connect with your friends around the shows you love IntoNow from Yahoo! makes engaging with your friends around your favorite television shows Continue Reading

Yahoo has announced that it is blocking sex searches for all those on the Indian subcontinent. Its decision came after a similar statement from Microsoft's Bling, er, Bing last week.   Latest reports suggest that Yahoo search engine, Microsoft’s Bing search engine, and Flickr, recently made alteration to their setting by which Indian users will not be able to switch off the safe-search facility. Same type of blockage is also expected in other countries like Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore. Continue Reading

The ambitious project to provide every citizen with a unique ID card would receive an initial funding of Rs 100 crore. The project would address security concerns and top IT firms like Infosys, Wipro, and TCS would get orders worth crores. It would be a giant leap in e-governance.   It appears that both Yahoo and Microsoft are ducking it out to help power the technology for India’s Unique Identification project.   Earlier this year, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates expressed a strong interest Continue Reading

Just a couple of day's ago we covered up the new ASK.com “Who Wants a Deal? We Do, We Do!” commercials. Yes they were good indeed. But only a few days after IAC, the company behind Ask.com  has mentioned that they would be open to a sale of Ask.com search engine.   Now that a significant use , given that Microsoft Bing and Yahoo recently partnered up for a Single Search engine against Google. Ask.com currently has 4% market share, and most of its’ revenue is generated through Continue Reading

Remember Yahoo GeoCities, the hyped about webpage creation service that helped people like me and you create web pages instantly before the web 2.0 era? Well today Yahoo! is officially discontinuing GeoCities after a decade. "We have decided to discontinue the process of allowing new customers to sign up for GeoCities accounts as we focus on helping our customers explore and build new relationships online in other ways," the company said. Yahoo! provides an FAQ on GeoCities shutdown Continue Reading

I being amid blogger and a reader go do different sites everyday, and one of my destinations is www.cnn.com . Today CNN has released its new customized, more modular, more streamlined and call it a more social design website. And the verdict : I Love it. Lets take a look. The news is much more streamlined into proper categories and I really like the section for its segments, that is really merging the web and the TV together. Besides that the site has gone completely social from twitter to facebook Continue Reading

Who said Carol Bartz was doing nothing. Let’s say it, we all love the old “idiot box” and bartz taking a note at that is trying to do what Microsoft wanted to do for years, amalgamate the PC, The Web and The TV. Today Yahoo has launched its  new Internet-ready TV widget ecosystem. “We’re combining the best of broadcast TV today…with the best of the Internet,”  “Connected TV and desktop” This clearly indicates that huge money could be chunked up using the TV with Continue Reading