Yahoo has agreed to acquire the development team of mobile app company Propeld, the third mobile start-up it has bought in four months. As first reported by TechCrunch, Propeld's Alike app allows users to discover and recommend nearby ...
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Yahoo’s revenue climbed 2 percent in the fourth quarter, though its display ad business shrank and profit was down from a year earlier. Yahoo’s revenue for the quarter ended Dec. 31 was US$1.35 billion. Subtracting commissions ...
Kim Dotcom, the man behind the now defunct file-sharing site Megaupload, has launched a new service called Mega. Like Megaupload, which was shut down following polie raids on Dotcom's New Zealand mansion in January 2012, Mega is a web ...
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Baidu signs its first global operator agreement with Orange, on an exclusive basis, to co-develop an enhanced mobile browser designed for emerging markets. The new browser, available in Arabic, English, and a French version in ...
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Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt will join a humanitarian trip to North Korea that may take place as early as this month. Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt's trip to North Korean is called personal although he will travel ...
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It is one of the widely used programming languages across the Web today, but PHP was created with decidedly modest ambitions, according to the creator of the language. "PHP doesn't really blaze a trail of innovation," admitted Rasmus ...
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IDG News Service - Swedish police confiscated three servers allegedly connected to copyright infringements during a raid on PRQ, a hosting service that was once home to The Pirate Bay. The main target was the Swedish torrent site ...
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Google's share price fell after disappointing third quarter financial results were released early by mistake and trading in shares was suspended for two-and-a-half hours. The internet company's quarterly profits fell 20% from a year ...
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Ross Levinsohn, who served as Yahoo's interim CEO for about two months until the company hired former Google executive Marissa Mayer on July 16, will leave the company on Tuesday. Levinsohn took over Yahoo in May during one of the darkest ...
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Yahoo's new CEO, Marissa Mayer, is expected to unveil her plan to turn around the ailing Internet company on Tuesday. Industry analysts say it's time for Mayer, who joined Yahoo in July, to lay out a vision for the company's future that ...
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Just having logged its one billionth user, Facebook now is looking forward to its biggest money-making strategy: mobile. However, that won't be an easy task for the social networking company. While figuring out how to make money off of ...
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Google has blocked access in India to a YouTube film trailer that mocks the Prophet Muhammad, claiming it was meeting a valid legal process, the company said on Friday. Earlier a source at the Internet Service Providers Association of ...
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Wittmann Textiles Company, a family owned and operated company for 57 years offering quality made USA quality sleepwear. It adds to their line of Ladies Flannel Nightgowns. In a time where 100% cotton is hard to come by in the industry, ...
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Computerworld-Have you noticed a change in the look of Google's search results page? You might not have.Google tweaked the design of the page a few days ago,giving it a cleaner,simpler appearance.But it's not a change that will jump out ...
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IDG News Service-Yahoo plans to shut down its struggling business in South Korea by the end of this year to focus its resources,the company said on Friday. The announcement comes ahead of Yahoo's quarterly earnings conference call on ...
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