Leaked Yang memo calls for hard work, commitment, and anybody but Microsoft
In his latest companywide memo, copied below, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang wants to “make sure you all realize how essential you are to yahoo!s success.” And by “you all” he means all but the 1,000 or so he ...
No spin: Ars reviews the MacBook Air with solid state drive
The MacBook Air's high-end model comes with 200 extra MHz and a solid state drive. Is it worth the extra $1,300 to upgrade? We compare the two Airs directly to find out whether the price is worth pa...
Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information
Posted by: Andrew Bonventre, Spreadsheets engineer and Michelle Lee, Spreadsheets designer — Today we're asking you to do something new: stop sharing spreadsheets. — Well... only sometimes, and on...
“BigNews”: Ask's Digg Project Revealed (IACI)
Here's the Ask.com/Digg collaboration we'd heard about earlier this week, but it may be less than we'd advertised: “BigNews” is actually more of an attempt to create a new spin on Techmeme/Google News...
Rumor: Is Google About to Buy Bebo For $1 Billion To $1.5 Billion? Or Will it Be MySpace?
An unconfirmed rumor has surfaced that either Google or MySpace is about to announce a big $1 billion to $1.5 billion acquisition in the social space. After checking around with multiple industry sou...
Is BT Fusion Dead in the Water?
Written by Ken Young, whose own blog is called The UK Mobile Report. — BT has stopped marketing its Fusion handsets to consumers and is now testing a service that uses the same technology but would ...
Show Me the Money! Dealipedia Wants to Unveil Secretive Business Deals
Michael Robertson, who made $115 million when he sold his startup MP3.com to Vivendi in 2001, wants every other entrepreneur to tell the world how much, or little, they pocketed during their business ...
LinkedIn Announces New Research Platform
At the Money:Tech conference, Mike Gamson of LinkedIn announced their new line of business to provide primary research services to financial markets, the LinkedIn Research Network. — While the servi...
Obama loses Silicon Valley to Clinton: Is anyone surprised?
It must have come as a surprise to the boisterous Barack Obama supporters who were flagging down commuters at light rail stations south of San Francisco after work on Tuesday, but Hillary Clinton won ...
This Is Not Our Bubble
Back in early October I posted about coming economic storms and what entrepreneurs could do to prepare. Given recent news, it is now almost certain that we are in recession. The bad news from financ...
Why Windows 7 looks so much like Vista
Last month we posted a video and screenshots of what may or may not be Windows 7, the next version of Microsoft's flagship operating system. The company hasn't confirmed or denied the authenticity of...
Israeli upstarts follow money to Silicon Valley
MOUNTAIN VIEW—Israel is brimming with technology upstarts that want what Silicon Valley has—venture money, partnerships, and a bridge to the rest of the world. — On Wednesday, 15 Israeli companies s...
A Guide to Billionaire Bloggers - And Some We'd Like to See
With the news today that billionaire investor Carl Icahn is getting ready to start blogging, we started to wonder what other billionaires blog. Sadly (or perhaps not so sadly), not many of them blog....
Introducing all-you-can-eat web hosting
From plumbers to accountants, corner markets to day spas, Yahoo! has been proudly helping small businesses succeed online for more than eight years. Today we're taking our commitment to a new level a...
Google Likely Out, And Happy
After dominating the U.S. wireless spectrum auction for months, from influencing the terms of the auction to bidding, it looks like Google is off the hook. — Nine days into the closely watched Feder...
Decision Time For Yahoo
The dust is settling on Microsoft's $31 per share offer to acquire Yahoo, and the options left open to the company are fairly well understood at this point. There will almost certainly be no White Kn...
AOL revenue continues to slide; Who are these 9.3 million AOL access subscribers?
AOL's revenue and operating income continued to slide as the parent Time Warner focuses on advertising. For the fourth quarter, AOL reported operating income of $274 million on revenue of $1.25 billi...
MySpace's San Francisco Debut In Living Color!
Last night, BoomTown checked out the new space MySpace is renovating for its soon-to-open San Francisco office. The occasion was a party the social networking site held for developers as part of its ...
Ex-Googlers Launch Instructional Video Site Howcast, Raise $8 Million A Round
A New York City startup called Howcast is launching today that wants to be the YouTube of instructional videos. In fact, the three founders—Jason Liebman, Daniel Blackman and Sanjay Raman …
The Latest From Jerry: Stay Focused, Yahoos!
Yet another employee letter to Yahoos from CEO Jerry Yang has now become public, thanks to Yahoo being required to file these things with the US Securities & Exchange Commission. It makes you wonder ...
Why Social Applications Will Thrive In A Recession
Is a recession coming? Don't ask me — I'm not an economist, and even the economists don't really know. But if it's anything like the last recession, advertising will plummet and experimental media w...
Video site Revver shopping itself for a song
Revver, a YouTube competitor that made a name for itself by paying video producers, has fallen on hard times. — The company's staff has dwindled to less than half the size it was 18 months ago, acco...
Cable damage hits 1.7m Internet users in UAE
DUBAI — An estimated 1.7 million Internet users in the UAE have been affected by the recent undersea cable damage, an expert said yesterday, quoting recent figures published by TeleGeography, an inter...
Ten irrelevant technology companies
The great corporate graveyard is filled with hundreds, maybe thousands, of technology companies that managed to go public and then fizzled. Still, most of them weren't going anywhere and never should...
How a BitTorrent Tracker Owner Hides from the MPAA/RIAA
Apart from The Pirate Bay guys, most tracker administrators are acutely aware of the risks they expose themselves to, and do everything they can to hide in the shadows. We speak to a tracker owner to...
Google Aims to Crack Chinese Market
Two years after Google Inc. began a big push in China, Baidu.com Inc. continues to dominate the country's Internet search market, thanks in significant part to a controversial and legally risky offeri...
Mystery of the Vista-alike Windows 7 build finally solved
It was inevitable we suppose, but somebody's finally spilled on the shenanigans behind that “Windows 7 Ultimate” leak from a couple weeks back. According to JayDog over at TG Daily, who apparently re...