Yahoo announced Monday that it is buying Summly, a London-based company that developed an app that condenses information and makes it easily and quickly readable on mobile devices. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed, but it ...
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's decision last month to call all of the company's telecommuters back to the office posed a creative challenge for video collaboration services provider Blue Jeans Network. In response, the three-year-old startup ...
Microsoft has issued a detailed mea culpa about the lengthy and ill-timed outage that affected its webmail services on Tuesday and Wednesday, an incident that undermines the company's push for its new Outlook.com as a better alternative to ...
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Research by Microsoft has shown 70% of office workers get 'more done' working away from the office. The research is launched today (18 March) to coincide with the start of Anywhere Working Week and is an Ipsos MORI study of UK office ...
Clicking "install app" on a mobile device does not amount to personal data consent, according to EU privacy watchdog, the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party. Much of this data is processed to provide a revenue stream, which the ...
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Even though standards bodies like the Open Networking Forum (ONF) are leading the effort to standardise software-defined networking, Dell has proposed an SDN working committee within the Object Management Group. OMG is an international, ...
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Jen Marissa Mayer was in the news again, and this time it wasn't for giving out free iPhones to employees. The flash point for the Mayer-related chatter this week was the recent announcement that Yahoo! employees would soon be expected ...
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer shouldn't judge staff performance on how many hours workers log on the VPN from home, but on the results they bring to the company. That's according to David Plumb, general manager, enterprise, at Telefonica O2 UK. ...
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Microsoft has fixed a problem that caused an outage for many users of Hotmail and the service that is replacing it, Outlook.com. Maintenance work continued to affect the calendaring component of Hotmail, however. Microsoft acknowledged ...
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Marissa Mayer has been challenged on her hiring practices in internal meetings, with Yahoo employees accusing her of missing out on top engineering talent, an unnamed employee has alleged. Speaking to Reuters, the employee said that Mayer ...
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Dell on Monday said it had signed a confidentiality agreement with investor Carl Icahn, who has vocally opposed the company's proposed plan to be acquired for $24.4 billion in a leveraged buyout. In a brief statement, Icahn Enterprises ...
Despite Yahoo's efforts to quell some of the furor, the news that it was calling telecommuters back into the office stirred up a heated debate in the tech sector and beyond. Last month, Yahoo management told employees that the company ...
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has received a $US1.1 million ($1.08m) bonus for her first five-and-half months running the internet company. The award disclosed on Wednesday supplements Mayer's annual salary of $US1m and $US56m in long-term ...
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The format of news feeds on home pages is being revamped to get rid of clutter and present "bright, beautiful" stories whether they are insights from friends or trending news of the day, Facebook said. "I think there is a special place in ...
Icahn, in a letter made public by the company's board of directors, said the plan to take the company private in a $US24.4 billion ($A23.9 billion) buyout led by founder Michael Dell "is not in the best interests of Dell shareholders and ...
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