April 2011
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YouTube Founders Buy Delicious From Yahoo →
From the NYT :
Fans of Delicious, an online bookmarking service, raised a ruckus after word leaked four months ago that its owner, Yahoo, might shutter it as part of a streamlining plan.
To deflect criticism, Yahoo quickly reassured users that it was trying to find Delicious a new home rather than kill it.
On Wednesday, Yahoo said that it had succeeded in finding a buyer — a team led by...
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"Improve" Yahoo! Mail, at what cost ? →
What is the “Improve Yahoo! Mail” Research Project? The “Improve Yahoo! Mail” Research Project will review and analyze a small percentage of user emails, IMs (instant messages), and other communications content to help Yahoo! plan new features and products, create better advertising experiences, and better understand our users’ needs and desires.
The new Yahoo Mail app, called...
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Yahoo to Spin Out Hadoop Engineering Group for $1... →
From Read Write Cloud :
Yahoo has invested considerable resources into Apache Hadoop over the past several years. And now it is considering spinning out the engineering group responsible for the data analysis software into a separate company that it believes has the potential to be a $1 billion business.
Hadoop is the open source distributed data technology that is now used by Web...
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Social TV : Yahoo! Acquires IntoNow →
From Y! Finance :
Yahoo! the premier digital media company, today announced the acquisition of IntoNow. Launched in January 2011, IntoNow has built a platform and companion TV application based on real time indexing of television that deepens the connections between audiences, television content and advertisers. IntoNow has indexed more than five years of US based television programming,...
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Yahoo! Joins Linux Foundation →
From The Linux Foundation :
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that Yahoo! is its newest member.
Founded in 1994, Yahoo! is a major enterprise Linux user and premier digital media company that today attracts more than half a billion consumers a month in more than 30 languages. Yahoo! uses the Linux operating...