omg
Snoop Dogg to Bring Women's Football to L.A.
Snoop Dogg tells Yahoo! Sports that he's buying a team in L.A. in the new Ladies Arena Football League.
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Huffington Post
Facebook S-1 Filing Raises Question Of How Facebook Will Increase Profits Without Losing Users
SAN FRANCISCO -- For all the huge numbers in Facebook's IPO papers, a surprisingly small figure stands out: $4.39, the amount the site generated per user last year.It's one of the company's major challenges because the total is paltry compared with competing Internet companies. Google makes more than $30 a year from each registered user. Even struggling Yahoo and AOL make $7 and $10, respective...
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politico
Yahoo steals NY Times' Virginia Heffernan
In its most high-profile move since announcing the expansion of its political coverage, Yahoo News has hired former New York Times columnist Virginia Heffernan as its National Correspondent.
Heffernan, who wrote The Medium column for the New York Times Magazine before joining the paper's Opinion section, accepted a buyout from the Times last week, and will start writing for Yahoo News later thi...
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Mashable
How 9 Tech Giants Traded After Going Public [INFOGRAPHIC]
Now that Facebook has filed paperwork for its Initial Public Offering, the world will be watching the company’s value. Assuming the SEC approves…
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Nikkei
Yahoo Auctions' Transaction Value Up 1st Time In 4 Yrs |
Los Angeles Times
Lakers reportedly interested in Ramon Sessions
--Yahoo! Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski reports that the Lakers remain interested in acquiring Cleveland point guard Ramon Sessions.
--The Times' Mike Bresnahan explains why the Lakers struggle against the Charlotte Bobcats.
--The Charlotte Observer's Rick Bonnell reports that Gerald Henderson, D.J. White and newcomer Reggie Williams will play Tuesday against the Lakers.
--The Orange County Registe...
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Wired
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, PayPal Go After Phishers With New E-Mail Authentication Effort
The biggest names in e-mail have teamed up to create a new system for authenticating e-mail senders, which would help prevent fraudulent spam and phishing messages.
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siliconindia
PPC Marketing: A Sure-shot Way to Get on the Top of Search Engines
by Shailendra Singh You must have heard about search engine optimization. Haven’t you? It is search engine optimization that helps a site rank well on Google, Yahoo, and other major search engines. When a site appears on the top slots of search engines, it automatically attracts quality traffic which further leads to lead generations. However, SEO may take a bit longer before it benefit...
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WSJ
Facebook Widens Lead in Display Ads
Facebook is widening its lead over Yahoo in the online display-advertising market ahead of an expected filing for an initial public offering.
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lesoir
19:20 Google, Facebook et Microsoft unis contre les pourriels et l’hameçonnage
Les plus grands groupes américains sur internet, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo ! et AOL, ont annoncé lundi une initiative commune pour lutter contre les pourriels et les entreprise...lire la suitehistoires liées18:00 La CGSP wallonne accuse les médias d’un manque d’objectivité18:04 Bientôt davantage de protection pour les intérimaires18:52 Concordia : pas de recherche des corps pour cause ...
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Slashdot
Big Internet Players Propose DMARC Anti-Phishing Protocol
judgecorp writes "Google, Microsoft, PayPal, Facebook and others have proposed DMARC, or Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance, an email authentication protocol to combat phishing attacks. Authentication has been proposed before; this group of big names might get it adopted." Adds reader Trailrunner7, "The specification is the product of a collaboration among the large ...
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physorg
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! to fight email spam
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL and Facebook are setting aside their online rivalry to fight a common enemy: email spam and "phishing" attacks.
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TechCrunch
Yahoo Shuts Down 10 Mobile Apps, Says Its Going “Mobile First” (?)
Yahoo is moving forward with a "mobile first" mindset, the company stated via blog post late last week, then incongruously announced it would be shuttering 10 of its mobile applications. The list, which contains a mix of iPhone, Android and BlackBerry apps, includes an odd, and somewhat surprising group of underperforming properties. Yahoo Deals, News, Shopping, Finance and Movies, were include...
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CNN
Will Facebook be the next Yahoo?
Facebook has plenty of challenges as it readies to go public.
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AllThingsDigital
SnagFilms Grabs $7 Million To Share Indie Movies Online
Terry Semel, who used to make really, really big movies for a living, is one of the investors in a startup that works on the other end of the spectrum.
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Krone
Internetkonzerne bilden Allianz gegen Phishing
Führende Internetkonzerne wie Google, Microsoft, Facebook, PayPal und Yahoo haben sich im Kampf gegen Phishing verbündet. Ziel der am Montag vorgestellten Allianz mit dem Namen DMARC ist, hinter den Kulissen kriminelle E-Mails herauszufiltern, damit sie die Nutzer gar nicht erst erreichen und so dem Passwort- und Kreditkartendatenklau vorzubeugen.
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Heise
Zeitung: Facebook könnte Mittwoch Börsengang anstoßen
Die Internet-Urgesteine Google und Yahoo sind schon lange an der
Börse; die Aufsteiger LinkedIn, Groupon und Zynga haben den Schritt
gewagt. Nur Facebook fehlt in dem Club noch - doch
das dürfte sich schon bald ändern.
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sueddeutsche
Soziales Netzwerk: Facebook vor Börsengang
Google und Yahoo sind schon lange an der Börse, LinkedIn und Groupon inzwischen ebenfalls - jetzt hat offenbar auch das Warten auf Facebook ein Ende. Mark Zuckerberg könnte den Börsengang des sozialen Netzwerks schon diese Woche anstoßen.
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Barrons
Putting Some Life Into Yahoo!
How to extract more return from the search engine's moribund stock with options.
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Barrons
Yahoo! Japan CFO Says Talks Ongoing, Per WSJ
Following a Yahoo! (YHOO) conference call last night to discuss Q4 results, during which management said it was looking to restructure its assets in Asia, a report today by The Wall Street Journal’s Juro Osawa states the head of finance of the Japanese joint venture confirmed Yahoo! is discussing amending its stakes. Osaw quotes the [...]
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Times of India
Yahoo Q4 net income down 5% to $296m
Yahoo Inc has posted 5 per cent drop in net income to USD 296 million in the October-December quarter of 2011 due to decline in advertising revenues.
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ARD
Yahoo kommt nicht in die Pötte
Der Niedergang des Internet-Konzerns Yahoo hat sich im vierten Quartal nahtlos fortgesetzt. Muss sich der Web-Pionier im Kampf gegen Platzhirsche wie Google und Facebook geschlagen geben?
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Irish Times
Revenue slump continues for Yahoo
Yahoo slipped further behind in the online advertising race during the fourth quarter as the internet company entered the fourth year of a revenue slump.
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FTD
Internet-Urgestein: Yahoo setzt Rutschfahrt fort
Während die Rivalen Google und Facebook wachsen, schrumpft Yahoo. Immer mehr Marktanteile gibt der Internetpionier ab, das zentrale Geschäftsfeld der Bannerwerbung kontrahiert.
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Les Echos
Le nouveau DG de Yahoo donne peu d'indice sur sa stratégie
par Alexei Oreskovic (Reuters) - Le nouveau directeur général de Yahoo, Scott Thompson, est passé mardi sur le gril des analystes à l'occasion de sa première téléconférence trimestrielle de résultats, mais n'a pas dévoilé de détails sur sa stratégie pour redresser le groupe. Les analystes ont tenté...
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BBC
Yahoo quarterly profits fall 5%
Yahoo's profit falls in the last quarter of 2011 as it continues to struggle to maintain its market share amid growing competition.
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Telegraph
Yahoo! chief pledges to improve as profit falls
Yahoo!'s new chief executive Scott Thompson tried to manage expectations when he presented his first set of results, as the company's sales and profit fell slightly in the fourth quarter.
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Video: Apple earnings wow Wall Street
Summary of business headlines: Apple sales surge while Yahoo revenue slips; IMF warns euro zone crisis is escalating and Wall Street drifts mostly lower as Federal Reserve announcement awaited
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Reuters
New Yahoo CEO says company needs to "do better"
(Reuters) - Yahoo Chief Executive Scott Thompson tried to manage expectations on his first earnings call as the new CEO, broadly addressing numerous issues the Internet company is grappling with -- from a potential sale to reviving its core display advertising business -- but declined to lay out a detailed strategy.
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USA Today
Apple income soars; Yahoo disappoints
Apple's revenue climbs 73% from a year ago, while Yahoo earned 5% less.
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news.com.au
Yahoo earnings continue to disappoint
YAHOO'S latest financial results show the internet company is still losing ground in the battle for online advertising.
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AP
Yahoo delivers another listless performance in 4Q
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo's latest financial results show the Internet company is still losing ground in the battle for online advertising....
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FT
Yahoo hits profit forecasts despite revenue slide
The US internet media company lost further ground in display and search advertising but lower costs helped operating margins
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Reuters
Yahoo revenue slips in Q4
(Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's net revenue and profit fell slightly in the fourth quarter, the struggling Internet company's last quarter before new Chief Executive Scott Thompson took the reins.
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Fortune
Yahoo: New CEO. Same results.
On Tuesday, Yahoo reported quarterly results in line with analysts' expectations, a somewhat quiet start for new CEO Scott Thompson.
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Handelsblatt
Quartalszahlen: Yahoo bleibt weiterhin auf Talfahrt
Früher war alles besser: Das Internet-Urgestein Yahoo kommt gegen Google und Facebook nicht an. Rückgänge in der Bannerwerbung sind ein Grund dafür, warum die Quartalszahlen wie erwartet mau ausfallen.
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TheDomains
Yahoo Reports Earnings
Yahoo Inc. reported its earnings for the 4th Quarter of 2011 after the market closed today and posted a quarterly profit of $296 million, or 24 cents a share, compared with earnings of $312 million, in the same period a year ago.
Net revenue, excluding costs associated with acquiring traffic, came in at $1.17 billion, down 3% from the 4th quarter of 2010 of $1.2 billion.
Still the earnings and ...
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Yahoo needs to do better, says new CEO
Declines in search, display advertising blamed on weakness in Europe; CFO sees some positive trends
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Yahoo needs to do better, says new CEO
Declines in search, display advertising blamed on weakness in Europe; CFO sees some positive trends
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Washington Post
Report: Wizards fire Flip Saunders
The Wizards have fired Coach Flip Saunders after a 2-15 start, according to Yahoo! Sports. Saunders was said to be safe when the Wizards started the season 0-8, but they have failed to make much improvement since then. John Wall has had a disappointing second season, other players have failed to develop chemistry and the offense has sputtered.
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Times of India
Yahoo moves HC, notice to police
The Delhi HC on Friday sought a response from the Delhi Police on a plea by Yahoo India challenging the summons issued to it by a magistrate for allegedly hosting objectionable content.
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La Voix du Nord
Jerry Yang, icône d´une génération d´Internet dépassée
Jerry Yang, qui a quitté mardi toutes ses fonctions au sein de Yahoo! dont il est l'un des fondateurs, était de plus en plus critiqué depuis plusieurs années pour être passé à côté de l'évolution du secteur.Articles en rapportEmploi : la France déshabilléeDes centaines de milliers de livres indisponibles pourront être numérisésLes familles entre angoisse et colèreCoup de tonnerre sur la toile :...
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Los Angeles Times
Sundance shorts stream on Yahoo for online Audience Award voting
Starting today, the short films premiering at Sundance are viewable at sundance.yahoo.com via Yahoo, a sponsor of the festival.Starting today, the short films premiering at Sundance are viewable at sundance.yahoo.com via Yahoo, a sponsor of the festival.
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China Daily
Yang's Yahoo departure changes rules of the game
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, China's biggest e-commerce company by sales, may have to restructure its relationship with its largest shareholder, Yahoo! Inc, according to experts.
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perez hilton
Do You Know How Many Videos Your Eyeballs Absorb On The Internet? 23 Hours Worth!
This is rather inneresting.
According to a study done in the month of December, in one month alone, 182 million U.S. Internet users watched 43.5 billion videos. The highest ranked site for video content watched was Google sites - which includes YouTube - with 157.2 million unique viewers. Well behind, but still impressively enough, was VEVO [...]
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Technology Review
Yahoo Predicts America's Political Winners
The effort combines a variety of data-driven approaches.
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Le Figaro
Jerry Yang démissionne de Yahoo!
Le cofondateur du groupe Internet a démissionné du conseil d'administration de Yahoo! et de ses partenaires asiatiques. Avec son départ, l'ultime obstacle au démantèlement de l'ex-star du Web est levé.
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WSJ
El cofundador de Yahoo se va tras 17 años
Jerry Yang, que acompañó el rápido ascenso de la empresa y su posterior declive, dijo que renunciaría a la junta directiva, cortando su vínculo con la compañía que fundó junto a David Filo en 1995 cuando eran estudiantes de posgrado en la Universidad de Stanford.
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DieZeit
Computer: Analyse: Jerry Yang - entzauberter Visionär
<img style="float:left; margin-right:5px" src="http://images.zeit.de/news/../publishedPictures/yango_34562436_onlineBild.jpg-148x84.jpg"/>Sunnyvale (dpa) - Er zählt zu den Pionieren des World Wide Web und gilt als Ikone des Internet-Zeitalters. Jahre vor dem Platzen der Internet-Blase hat Jerry Yang sein Unternehmen Yahoo von einem Hob...
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Hoy
Ley SOPA: Youtube analiza el proyecto antipiratería
Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter, Wikipedia, Amazon y Mozilla, entre otros, lideran la lucha contra el polémico proyecto contra la piratería de EEUU
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euronews
Jerry Yang quitte Yahoo!, le portail internet qu'il a fondé
Le portail internet Yahoo! a annoncé le départ de son cofondateur Jerry Yang alors que le portail internet est en plein effort de repositionnement…
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Reuters
Stock index futures gain, Yahoo in focus
(Reuters) - Stock index futures pointed to a higher open for equities on Wall Street on Wednesday, with futures for the S&P 500, the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq 100 up 0.4-0.5 percent at 1045 GMT.
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WirtschaftsWoche
Suchmaschine: Yahoo steuert in eine ungewisse Zukunft
Der angeschlagene Internet-Pionier kommt nicht zur Ruhe: Firmengründer Jerry Yang verlässt das Unternehmen.
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Gizmodo
Jerry Yang verlässt Yahoo
Yahoo-Mitbegründer Jerry Yang wurde offensichtlich aus dem Unternehmen geworfen, das er einst ins Leben rief. In einer kurzen Pressemitteilung teilte Yahoo mit, dass er sämtliche Posten im Unternehmen aufgegeben habe. mehr...
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Daily Mail
Jerry Yang: Yahoo co-founder leaves ailing company
The surprise departure, announced Tuesday, comes just two weeks after Yahoo Inc. hired former PayPal executive Scott Thompson as its CEO.
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Times LIVE
Shares jump as Yahoo Yang gone
Yahoo Inc co-founder Jerry Yang has quit the company he started in 1995, appeasing shareholders who had blasted the Internet pioneer for pursuing an ineffective personal vision and impeding investment deals that could have transformed the struggling company.
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siliconindia
Jerry Yang Steps Down From Yahoo
Jerry Yang, the Co founder and CEO of Yahoo resigned from all his posts in the company following major troubles that company faced in recent years
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manager magazin
Internetpionier: Jerry Yang verlässt Yahoo
Für den schwächelnden Internet-Pionier Yahoo endet eine Ära. Der einflussreiche Mitgründer Jerry Yang hat sich nach 17 Jahren plötzlich aus dem Unternehmen verabschiedet. Die Börse reagiert erfreut.
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euronews
Yahoo tourne une page de son histoire avec la démission de son co-fondateur Jerry Yang
Il était à l'origine du portail internet en 1995. Yang quitte le groupe en difficulté pour se consacrer dit il à d'autres opportunités. Son départ…
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FAZ
Yahoo-Mitgründer Yang geht überraschend
Der Mitbegründer und frühere Chef von Yahoo, Jerry Yang, zieht sich komplett aus dem angeschlagenen Internetkonzern zurück. Anleger reagierten positiv: Der Aktienkurs stieg nachbörslich.
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La Voix du Nord
Yahoo! tourne la page du passé avec le départ de son cofondateur Jerry Yang
Le portail internet Yahoo!, en plein effort de repositionnement stratégique, a annoncé mardi le départ immédiat de son cofondateur Jerry Yang, qui cristallisait le divorce entre le groupe et les investisseurs.histoires liéesBâtiment: les professionnels veulent du foncier pour construireLa Banque mondiale met en garde contre le ralentissement économiqueMoody´s menace d´abaisser la note de la ban...
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Times of India
Co-founder Jerry Yang to quit Yahoo
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang is leaving the struggling Internet company, as it tries to revive its revenue growth and win over disgruntled shareholders under a new leader.
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DailyTech
Co-Founder Jerry Yang Finally Quits Yahoo for Good
Yang has resigned from Yahoo's Board of Directors and also stepped down as a member of the boards of Yahoo Japan and Alibaba Group
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USA Today
Yahoo co-founder Yang exits the company
Jerry Yang, Yahoo's co-founder and former CEO, resigned from the board and will no longer be a part of the Internet pioneer.
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WSJ
Out With a Yang at Yahoo
For investors, it's been a long time since Yahoo lived up to its name. With Jerry Yang leaving the company, they finally have something to celebrate.
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Daily Mail
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang leaves ailing company as it grapples with failed sales deal and new leadership
The surprise departure, announced Tuesday, comes just two weeks after Yahoo Inc. hired former PayPal executive Scott Thompson as its CEO.
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DerSpiegel
Internet-Konzern: Yahoo-Mitgründer Yang tritt überraschend zurück
Es ist ein unerwarteter Schritt: Zwei Wochen, nachdem der Internetkonzern Yahoo einen neuen Chef präsentierte, verabschiedet sich jetzt der mächtige Mitgründer Jerry Yang aus dem Unternehmen. Damit werden Spekulationen um die Zukunft der Marke neu befeuert.
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MarketWatch
MarketWatch First Take: With new CEO, Yahoo doesn’t need Yang
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang has managed to remain at Yahoo despite a series of missteps over the last few years and the board may have kept him around mostly as the good cop to the sharp-tongued Carol Bartz
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ARD
Mitbegründer Yang verlässt Yahoo
Eine Woche nach dem Wechsel auf dem Chefsessel des Internetkonzerns Yahoo wendet sich einer der Mitbegründer vom Unternehmen ab. Der als Strippenzieher geltende Yang legte alle Ämter im Konzern nieder. Es sei für ihn "an der Zeit, Interessen außerhalb von Yahoo zu verfolgen", erklärte er.
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BBC
Yahoo founder Jerry Yang resigns
Jerry Yang, co-founder and former chief executive of Yahoo!, resigns from the company's board.
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ElPais
El cofundador de Yahoo! renuncia a todos sus cargos
Más cambios de calado en Yahoo!. La puntocom, que trata de reconducir el rumbo de su negocio en Internet frente a la competencia del buscador Google y de nuevos rivales como la red social Facebook, anunció este martes que su cofundador Jerry Yang deja todos sus cargos en la compañía con efecto inmediato, incluido el puesto en el Consejo de Administración.
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FOCUS
Abschied von Yahoo - Mitgründer Jerry Yang verlässt angeschlagenes Unternehmen
Nachdem der Yahoo-Konzern im wichtigen Online-Werbemarkt immer mehr Boden an Google verloren hatte verabschiedete sich nun der Mitgründer Jerry Yang überraschend aus dem Unternehmen.Mehr zum ThemaDer Bundesrechnungshof klagt an - Griechische Verhältnisse in deutschen FinanzämternHinter den Kulissen der Ratingriesen - Diese Männer lassen die Schuldenkrise auflodernBörse am Abend - Anleger setzen...
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lesoir
Jerry Yang quitte Yahoo !
e portail internet Yahoo! a annoncé mardi le départ de son cofondateur Jerry Yang, qui a démissionné du conseil d'administration et de toutes ses autres fonctions l...lire la suite
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THE AUSTRALIAN
Co-founder Yang leaves Yahoo
YAHOO said that co-founder Jerry Yang had resigned from its board and other positions at the internet company.
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Gizmodo
Yahoo! Kicks Founder Jerry Yang To The Curb [Yahoo]
Yahoo! board member Jerry Yang has apparently been forced out of the company he founded. In a statement released today, Yahoo announced he had resigned from its board of directors, and all other positions at the company. More »
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BoingBoing
Yahoo co-founder, former CEO Jerry Yang resigns from board and "all other positions"
Yahoo announces that Jerry Yang has resigned from the internet company's Board of Directors "and all other positions with the company, effective today." Yang has also resigned from the Boards of Yahoo Japan Corporation and Alibaba Group Holding Limited, effective today. Yahoo's official statement is here. Photo: Co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc. Jerry [...]
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el universal
Wikipedia cierra 24 horas su web en protesta por SOPA
La versión en inglés de la enciclopedia virtual estará fuera de servicio este miércoles; se une a sitios como Google, Yahoo, Twitter y Facebook que intentan paralizar la controversial ley antipiratería en EU
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Washington Post
Is time running out on the billable hour?
When Washington lawyers Marc Zwillinger and Christian Genetski left Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal in 2010 to open a four-lawyer firm, they took with them 24 corporate clients, including some big names such as Yahoo, MySpace, Blizzard Entertainment and Cricket Communications. By the end of 2011, the Internet law boutique, ZwillGen, had more than quadrupled its client billings to 100.
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AP
Facebook, Google, others face charges in India
NEW DELHI (AP) -- For the first time, Indian prosecutors are taking Google, Yahoo, Facebook and other networking sites to court for refusing to remove material considered insulting to Indian leaders and major religious figures....
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AP
Microsoft eclipses Yahoo in US search for 1st time
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. has finally reached a long-sought and expensive goal - its Bing search engine now ranks second behind Google in the Internet's most lucrative market....
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Le Figaro
Guy Roux a songé au suicide
FOOTBALL - Dans un entretien accordé à Yahoo! Sports, Guy Roux a confié qu'il avait pensé mettre fin à ses jours lorsqu'il a été poussé en dehors de l'AJ Auxerre, son club de toujours.
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Reuters
UPDATE 1-Alibaba cuts planned loan size to buy back Yahoo stake-sources
HONG KONG, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Alibaba Group
has reduced the size of its debut loan to $3 billion, the funds
which the Chinese e-commerce giant plans to use to buy back part
of the 40 percent stake...
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Times LIVE
Tom Hanks to electrify Yahoo with Web series
Tom Hanks' long gestating Web series is coming to Yahoo.
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AP
Tom Hanks' Web series to stream on Yahoo
NEW YORK (AP) -- Tom Hanks' long gestating Web series is coming to Yahoo....
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Washington Post
New Hampshire Republican debates: When and where to watch
The New Hampshire primary is Tuesday, exactly one week after the Iowa caucuses were held on Jan. 3.
The tight window between nominating contests set up for a debate double header: Republican presidential hopefuls will meet on stages in the Granite State on Saturday night and again Sunday morning.
ABC News, Yahoo! News and WMUR-TV will host the first debate on Saturday at 9 p.m. ET. The Fix w...
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Barrons
Few Yahoos for New Yahoo! CEO
PayPal veteran Scott Thompson has been dealt a lousy hand at the flagging Internet concern.
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Times of India
Yahoo dangled $27 million pay package to get new CEO
Yahoo dangled a $27 million pay package to lure its newly hired CEO Scott Thompson away from PayPal.
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Le Point
Salaire annuel de 1 M USD pour le nouveau patron de Yahoo!
Le portail internet Yahoo! a annoncé vendredi que son nouveau directeur...
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Liberation
Yahoo se paie l’ex-président de PayPal
Retour sur . Les déboires financiers du portail internet américain
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Irish Times
Struggling Yahoo hires former PayPal chief to lead turnaround
YAHOO, THE struggling internet media company, announced its new chief executive would be Scott Thompson, the president of PayPal, the online payment service owned by eBay.
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Mail & Guardian
PayPal's Scott Thompson to pick up the pieces at Yahoo!
Struggling internet company Yahoo! has appointed the president of PayPal, Scott Thompson, as its new CEO, replacing the ousted Carol Bartz.
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Daily Telegraph
Yahoo names PayPal boss as its new CEO
INTERNET giant Yahoo has named PayPal's Scott Thompson as its new chief executive, saying he will recharge growth but also leaving open the possibility of selling off assets.
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Zeit
Internetbranche: eBay-Manager soll Yahoo sanieren
Der seit Monaten führungslose Internet-Konzern Yahoo hat einen neuen Chef: Scott Thompson führt ab Mitte Januar die Geschäfte des angeschlagenen Unternehmens.
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FT
Yahoo: market uninspired by new leader
If Yahoo’s board is near an agreement to dispense with the Asian assets, he will find himself in charge of a very substantial cash position
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Technology Review
An Encouraging Sign From Yahoo
Hiring its new CEO away from PayPal indicates that the Internet company still believes it can thrive on its own.
One of Silicon Valley's longest-running stories is the plight of Yahoo, a company whose future has been doubtful or questionable for something like seven or eight years now. Here is a site that just can't figure out how to prosper from an enormous audience, which outranks Facebook's ...
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FOX
Yahoo Names Paypal Exec as New CEO |
Le Figaro
Yahoo a enfin trouvé son nouveau patron
Scott Thompson, jusqu'alors à la tête de PayPal, remplace Carol Bartz, débarquée en septembre. Le scénario d'une revente est pour l'instant écarté.
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New York Times
PayPal Executive Named Chief of Yahoo
The Yahoo board said Scott Thompson, who has been running the online payments unit of eBay since early 2008, would replace Carol Bartz, who was dismissed in September.
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Telegraph
New Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson joins from PayPal
Yahoo! has appointed Scott Thompson, the former Paypal president, as its new chief executive, in a bid to make the service 'relevant' again to the Google and Facebook generation.
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The Guardian
Yahoo search for CEO ends with PayPal boss Scott Thompson
Internet giant fired CEO Carol Bartz in September and has struggled to compete with rivals Facebook and GoogleYahoo has tapped PayPal boss Scott Thompson as its new CEO, effective January 9, the troubled internet giant has announced.Yahoo fired Carol Bartz, its last chief executive, in September and has been undergoing a strategic review as the business has struggled to compete with Google and ...
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FAZ
Internet: Ebay-Manager Thompson wird neuer Yahoo-Chef
Der schwächelnde Internet-Konzern Yahoo hat nach monatelanger Suche einen neuen Vorstandsvorsitzenden. Scott Thompson, der bisherige Präsident des Ebay-Bazahldienstes Paypal, soll das Unternehmen zu alter Größe führen.
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New York Times
PayPal Executive Named C.E.O. of Yahoo
The Yahoo board said Scott Thompson, who has been running the online payments unit of eBay since early 2008, would replace Carol Bartz, who was dismissed in September.
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NEWS.au.com
Yahoo names Scott Thompson as CEO
YAHOO named Scott Thompson as its new CEO and member of its board of directors today, effective January 9.
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Zeit
Computer: Ebay-Manager Thompson wird neuer Yahoo-Chef
<img style="float:left; margin-right:5px" src="http://images.zeit.de/news/../publishedPictures/yaho_34333104_onlineBild.jpg-148x84.jpg"/>New York (dpa) - Der schwächelnde Internet-Konzern Yahoo hat nach monatelanger Suche einen neuen Chef. Scott Thompson kommt von der Handelsplattform Ebay und war dort zuletzt für den Zahlungsdienstle...
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Yahoo names PayPal executive new CEO
Struggling Internet company has been without a permanent CEO since it fired Carol Bartz in early September
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BBC
Google tops visited US sites list
Google and Facebook are 2011's most popular sites with US users according to Nielsen. Yahoo came in third, but its position may be precarious.
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Technology Review
Yahoo Adds a Notepad to Search
A new tool could help people organize information from Web searches.
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Irish Times
Indian courts challenge tech giants
US tech companies Facebook, Google and Yahoo, and other internet firms, have been ordered by two Indian courts to remove material considered religiously offensive, the latest skirmish in a growing battle over website content in the world's largest democracy.
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WSJ
Yahoo Presses On With Proposal
Yahoo's board decided to continue negotiations on a proposal to shed most of its Asian assets in a deal with Alibaba and Softbank but hasn't ruled out other options.
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China Daily
Yahoo mulls selling most of Alibaba stake
Yahoo! Inc is considering cutting its 40 percent stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd to about 15 percent, two people briefed on the matter said.
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BBC
Yahoo up on Alibaba sale reports
Yahoo shares rise on reports that the internet company is looking to reduce its 43% stake in China's Alibaba Group.
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USA Today
Rangers win rights to Japanese star Yu Darvish
They bid a record $51.7 million, according to Yahoo! Sports, and now have 30 days to sign the right-hander to a contract.
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Breaking the Internet HOWTO: The Unintended Consequences of Governmental Actions
"Breaking the Internet" is really hard to do. The network of networks is decentralized, resilient and has no Single Point Of Failure. That was the paradigm of the first few decades of Internet history, and most people involved in Internet Governance still carry that model around in their heads.
Unfortunately, that is changing and changing rapidly due to misguided government i...
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FOCUS
Suchmaschinen Bing, Google und Yahoo - Rebecca Black Top-Suchbegriff 2011 bei Google
Rebecca Black, iPhone 5 und Fukushima sind Googles Top-Suchbegriff 2011. In Deutschland haben es auch EHEC und DSDS in die Top Ten geschafft. Yahoo- und Bing-Nutzer suchen Alltagshelfer.
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Barrons
Goldman Slides as Bove Slashes Estimate
Goldman Sachs (GS) shares dropped 3.7% in midday trading, more than the rest of the banking sector, after Rochdale Securities analyst Richard Bove cut his expectations for the bank’s fourth quarter earnings. Bove now thinks the bank will earn 79 cents per share, a 66% reduction from his prior estimate, according to a report on [...]
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La Voix du Nord
Pour une majorité de Français, les agences de notation ont trop de pouvoir
Quatre Français sur cinq estiment que les agences de notation financière ont trop de pouvoir sur les politiques des Etats, selon un sondage LH2 pour Yahoo! publié ce dimanche.
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Reuters
Alibaba seeks $4 billion in financing for Yahoo
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Alibaba Group is seeking up to $4 billion in debt financing, sources said on Thursday, in a deal expected to help the Chinese e-commerce giant buy back a 40 percent stake in the...
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Reuters
Alibaba seeks $4 billion in financing for Yahoo stake: sources
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Alibaba Group is seeking up to $4 billion in debt financing, sources said on Thursday, in a deal expected to help the Chinese e-commerce giant buy back a 40 percent stake in the company owned by Yahoo Inc.
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lesoir
Yahoo ! dédommagé pour des spams
Le portail internet américain Yahoo ! a indiqué qu’un juge avait condamné par contumace des auteurs de spams ayant créé une fausse loterie au nom de Yahoo !, &...lire la suite
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APA-OTS
Yahoo Site Explorer offline - CEMPER.COM realisiert mit Link Research Tools bis zu 7.500 zusätzliche Links =
Wien (OTS) - Mit dem neuen Link Boost und Verdopplung der
Datenmenge gehören verborgene Backlinks der Vergangenheit an!
Die Suchmaschinenmarketing Agentur CEMPER.COM realisierte
vergangene Woche den Launch der neuesten Version der weltweit
erfolgreichen Link Research Tools. Das umfassende ...
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APA-OTS
Yahoo!- Weihnachtsstudie 2011 - Warum die Lust oft in Frust umschlägt und wie man das vermeidet - AUDIO =
München (OTS) - Anmoderationsvorschlag: Alle Jahre wieder freuen
sich die Deutschen auf Weihnachten - auf ein paar ruhige, erholsame
Tage mit der Familie, leckeres Essen und tolle Geschenke. Doch aus
Weihnachtslust wird oft recht schnell auch Weihnachtsfrust. Was die
größten Stimmungskiller ...
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USA Today
Danica Patrick was Yahoo's most-searched athlete in 2011
Yahoo has its list of most-searched athletes for 2011, and not a single NFL or MLB player is on it.
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WirtschaftsWoche
Alibaba-Chef: Dieser Mann will Yahoo kaufen
Er gilt als das Wunderkind der chinesischen Internetwirtschaft – jetzt drängt es Jack Ma auf die globale Bühne. Der 46-Jährige will das amerikanische Internetportal Yahoo übernehmen.
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NZZ
Ist Yahoo 25 Milliarden Dollar wert?
Details einer Übernahme noch nicht festgelegt
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USA Today
iPhone was top-searched topic on Yahoo this year
An object -- not a person or event -- was the top-searched topic on Yahoo this year.
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Reuters
UPDATE 2-Blackstone, Bain plan over $20 a shr Yahoo bid-source
NEW YORK, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Blackstone Group and
Bain Capital are preparing a bid for all of Yahoo Inc
that could value the Internet company at more than $20 per
share, with the participation of...
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Daily Mail
FTSE grabs the biggest share of net searches during economic gloom
The London stock index of leading share prices drew more internet searches than any other subject in the past year, according to Yahoo.
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MarketWatch
Yahoo shares add 2.6% in preopen trade
This is a Real-time headline. These are breaking news, delivered the minute it happens, delivered ticker-tape style. Visit www.marketwatch.com or the quote page for more information about this breaking news.
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TMZ
Terrell Owens -- I Tweet To Pay My Bills!
Filed under: Terrell Owens, Celebrity Justice, TMZ Sports
T.O. filed legal docs in one of his child support cases, claiming he doesn't have nearly enough jack to pay his baby mama's attorney's fees, but in making his argument he revealed he's making a bloody fortune by tweeting.According to legal docs, obtained by TMZ, Mr. O says he makes between $2,800 ...
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Les Echos
Présidentielle: Hollande à 30% et Sarkozy à 29% au 1er tour selon un sondage
[[325505]] PARIS (AFP) : François Hollande obtiendrait 30% des voix au premier tour, en forte baisse de 9 points par rapport au mois dernier, et Nicolas Sarkozy le talonnerait avec 29% (+5), si la présidentielle avait lieu dimanche prochain, selon un sondage LH2 pour Yahoo! publié dimanche. Au...
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CNN
Iconic Yahoo billboard coming down after 12 years
Since 1999, it has greeted visitors to San Francisco while standing as a symbol of the Bay Area's status as a tech hub: A Yahoo billboard, retro-styled to look like a 1960s-era motel sign, with the tag line, "A nice place to stay on the Internet."
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Technology Review
Avoiding the Faddish Side of Gamification
Yahoo researcher Judd Antin says that encouraging users and employees to pursue points and virtual badges may not achieve the desired results.
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Daily Mail
Microsoft, Yahoo! and AOL unite to launch advertising war on Google and Facebook
The alliance, announced this week, is designed to sell some of the less-prized ad space that the three have had trouble filling on their own.
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CNN Money
Facebook is now too big to buy
Yahoo, Google and Microsoft have all toyed over the years with acquiring Facebook, but those days are long gone: The company is now too big to buy, according to its top executives.
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Technology Review
Yahoo Gives the iPad the Power to Understand TV
An app that knows what you're watching can serve up related Web articles or other information—as well as targeted ads.
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Foreign Policy
China's tech companies go global while no one is watching
While the whole world is watching what Google is going to do in China, Chinese Internet companies are quietly expanding their global operations. The latest company to do so is AliBaba.com, the country's biggest business-to-business website, which is rapidly increasing its presence in Brazil.
Recently it has partnered with Ludatrade, a Hong Kong company, and expects a growth rate of 30 to 50...
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Fortune
Report: Former AOL chief wants to buy Yahoo
By Yi-Wyn Yen
Yahoo's fate is becoming more convoluted every day. Just two days after the Times of London reported that talks between Microsoft and Yahoo were back on, the the Wall Street Journal says former AOL chief executive Jonathan Miller is trying to raise money from private equity and sovereign wealth investors to buy the struggling Internet company.
Shares of Yahoo (Y...
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Technology Review
Innovator of the Year Joshua Schachter on memory and innovation
Technology Review's editors think Joshua Schachter's website, del.icio.us, is so cool, so useful, so ubiquitous that we named this TR35 winner our 2006 Innovator of the Year. Yahoo acquired del.icio.us last December, and the site has continued its phenomenal growth since then. Schachter talked to us late this summer about how his own memory influenced the development of del.icio.us and ...
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Countries |
MIX |
| 1 | United States | 68.970 |
| 2 | India | 49.255 |
| 3 | Brazil | 8.345 |
| 4 | Japan | 7.885 |
| 5 | Germany | 4.450 |
| 6 | Philipines | 3.730 |
| 7 | China | 3.550 |
| 8 | Mexico | 3.470 |
| 9 | Indonesia | 2.930 |
| 10 | Australia | 2.915 |
| 11 | United Kingdom | 2.845 |
| 12 | Spain | 2.720 |
| 13 | Canada | 2.542 |
| 14 | France | 2.510 |
| 15 | Turkey | 2.440 |
| 16 | Argentina | 2.380 |
| 17 | Switzerland | 2.120 |
| 18 | Italy | 2.120 |
| 19 | Romania | 1.890 |
| 20 | Colombia | 1.015 |
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# |
Media |
MIX |
| 1 | Dainik Jagran | 30.250 |
| 2 | CNN Editions (International) | 12.000 |
| 3 | Globo | 4.500 |
| 4 | CNN | 4.000 |
| 5 | Dinamalar | 3.500 |
| 6 | Times of India | 3.000 |
| 7 | foxnews | 2.400 |
| 8 | Digg | 2.120 |
| 9 | WALL STREET JOURNAL USA | 2.000 |
| 10 | Yahoo India | 2.000 |
| 11 | Navbharat Times | 2.000 |
| 12 | USA Today | 2.000 |
| 13 | Divya Bhaskar | 1.600 |
| 14 | New York Times | 1.540 |
| 15 | NYdailynews | 1.540 |
| 16 | Chunichi Shimbun | 1.500 |
| 17 | ABS-CBN News Channel | 1.500 |
| 18 | 7TV | 1.500 |
| 19 | yahoo brasil | 1.500 |
| 20 | NHL- The National Hockey League | 1.314 |
| More Media >> |
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Languages |
MIX |
| 1 | English | 94.107 |
| 2 | Hindi | 32.600 |
| 3 | Spanish | 10.325 |
| 4 | Portuguese | 8.405 |
| 5 | Japanese | 7.885 |
| 6 | German | 6.910 |
| 7 | Tamil | 4.500 |
| 8 | Chinese | 3.490 |
| 9 | French | 3.020 |
| 10 | Indonesian | 2.930 |
| 11 | Turkish | 2.440 |
| 12 | Italian | 2.120 |
| 13 | Romanian | 1.890 |
| 14 | Gujarati | 1.600 |
| 15 | Arabic | 1.240 |
| 16 | Czech | 0.800 |
| 17 | Finnish | 0.550 |
| 18 | Russian | 0.400 |
| 19 | Thai | 0.340 |
| 20 | Polish | 0.300 |
| More Languages >> |
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| 1 | Online Corporations |