Monday, June 30th, 2008
London, June 29 : Distracted by email and instant messages? Worry not, for companies like Google and Intel, which devised the technology in the first place, have come to your rescue.
These high-tech giants have found that constant bombardment with electronic communications can result in overload, and are seeking ways to ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
3A sarcastic Yahoo employee slammed the company in an email sent to Fortune today, taking aim at futile executives and lousy decision-making. In the wake of Yahoo's latest shakeup, "things could not be better," the email says: True, past "reorgs" were sparked by pointless executive shifts, but eight execs really ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Google, with its deep reservoir of data about online behavior gathered by tracking hundreds of millions of computers, is for the first time testing ways to use some of that data to aim ads at Web surfers.
Ads that a person sees on one Google search may be influenced by a ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
It hasn't been a banner year for Yahoo. It started off with an unsolicited acquisition bid for billions of dollars by the Internet's biggest villain, Microsoft, then was followed by some of the company's smartest talent abandoning ship en masse.
Despite what the market may suggest, Yahoo was wise to reject ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Map, News) - Yahoo Inc. is setting up a new chain of command amid the turmoil triggered by the embattled Internet icon's snub of Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover bid.
Under the new pecking order announced Thursday, Yahoo executive vice presidents Hilary Schneider and Ash Patel are being given ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
New initiatives are put in place, even as more execs leave amid makeover
SAN FRANCISCO - At first blush, the initiatives Yahoo Inc. unveiled this past week, including new email product offerings and mobile deals in Asia, paint the company as a Web giant boldly regrouping for future battles.
But with insurgent ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Just after putting an end to its damaging face-off with Microsoft, at least for the time being, Yahoo has been hit with a fresh crisis. Several senior executives have donned their walking shoes in recent days, amid rumors of a forced slow-down in hiring to boost company performance.
Jeff Weiner, EVP ...
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