Geek Fact for February 4th
In 2010, Yahoo! sold HotJobs to Monster.com for a reported $225 million. In 2010, Yahoo! sold HotJobs to Monster.com for a reported $225 million. Part of the deal included a provision that installs...
View ArticleAxis: New, alternative search from Yahoo
To paraphrase the famous quotation from Mark Twain – it appears the reports of Yahoo’s passing have been greatly exaggerated. Yes folks, Yahoo is back! With a nice innovation which I’m sure they’ll be...
View ArticleJudy’s Tech News Digest
Kind of a slow week techwise… Yahoo Bests Google Chalk one up for Yahoo. comScore announced this week that, for the first time since May of 2011, Yahoo! had more of its sites visited in the U.S. than...
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Twitter Changes Direct Messaging, Again Twitter Changes Direct Messaging, Again It used to be that in order to someone a direct message (DM) on Twitter, you had to follow each other. Then, a while...
View ArticleFirefox: Mozilla Dumps Google, Now with Yahoo
Mozilla has enjoyed a decade long arrangement with Google whereby the Firefox browser has shipped with Google search as default search engine. In fact, the deal with Google has accounted for a large...
View ArticleYahoo Messenger 11.5 allows you to unsend messages… kinda
There’s a ton of hype today about the new Yahoo Messenger app. Remember Yahoo Messenger? There’s a chance it was popular and then nonexistent before you were even born. I personally remember wondering...
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Yahoo Mail Users Are Latest Hacking Victims Yahoo Mail Users Are Latest Hacking Victims In what has unfortunately become a weekly news item, Yahoo Mail users are the latest victims of hacking. In a...
View ArticleNewsflash! Yahoo Hacked – Change Your Password
I just got eMail (newsletter) from a reliable source saying there had been a breach of security at Yahoo and it recommended changing the password on all your Yahoo services. This failure actually...
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