Doing its part to ensure that America's population of talented, unemployed writers and editors continues to grow, Yahoo shut down four of its entertainment websites yesterday: The Projector (movies), The Set (TV), The Amplifier (music), and The Famous (celebrity gossip). RIP, blogs and jobs.
Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL just sealed a deal to sell premium display advertising space for one another and for any smaller companies that join the consortium. That sounds like an antitrust case in the making, but the parties have one accurate defense against charges of collusion: Google is bigger and scarier.
As Yahoo CEO from 2007-2008, Jerry Yang infamously turned down Microsoft's acquisition offer of $46 billion, more than double Yahoo's current market value. But the programmer favorite is said to have "re-assumed command" now that unimaginative Carol Bartz is gone.
If there were any correlation whatsoever between cursing and profits, Carol Bartz would never have been fired from atop Yahoo. As things stand, she's swearing up a storm about how she was "fucked over."
On Saturday, August 27 Forbes writer Brian Capozzi stared furtively into his computer's screen. "This is a test... Do not publish," he typed. He typed it again and again. He typed it until the page was full, and then he set it to "preview," and then— Oh no. Oh fuck. Oh no no no no no no FUCK.
Yahoo's cursing CEO Carol Bartz is out the door — and just sent staff an email saying she's been fired over the phone. It looks like AOL isn't the only loser tech company with a clusterfuck on its hands this week.
Yahoo researchers are trying to update the 50-year-old experiment that established the idea that most people are connected by just five acquaintances. Where the old study asked subjects to forward letters, the new one simply connects people through Facebook. The more modern approach could actually demolish old…
After advocating the end of anonymity, Randi Zuckerberg slipped a bit further into it, leaving her job at Facebook. Let's hope her stock options were vested. Also in today's Valleywag roundup, more Airbnb complaints from readers, Yahoo Mail went down, and Ashton Kutcher was shown up on Twitter.
While what comes before the @-symbol may include the letters and characters you picked out, what comes after it still says a whole lot about you. A new study breaks down the types of people that use different types of free email services.
In your trenchant Thursday media column: Glenn Beck apologizes for something, Slate in Palin Cunt scandal, AOL execs make way for Arianna, Yahoo grabs a Politico writer, and a Katie Couric career check-in.
If you complain about another user's misbehavior, Flickr might accidentally delete your 4,000 photos forever instead of the other guy's account. It's too bad the Yahoo division hasn't fixed its longstanding deletion problem, but at least it's apologizing now!
Rumor had it that the pioneering social bookmarking company Del.ic.ious was going to be shuttered amid Yahoo's Christmas layoff rampage. A "save delicious" petition was even circulated! It's actually being sold, not shut down. All four Delicious users, rejoice.
Yahoo will lay off around 700 employees today, All Things Digital reports. Fired workers will have to leave their buildings immediately. A security escort is a terrible Christmas present — especially since Yahoo gave the same gift two years ago.
This morning on the Early Show Heather Cabot, Yahoo.com's Web Life Editor, stopped by to announce the website's Top 10 Searches of 2010, begging the question, "Who the hell uses Yahoo! for internet searches?"
Google receives "tens of thousands" of requests each year from the government to turn over user data, and it complies with any it deems legitimate. But the information comes at a cost: 25 bucks per head.
Facebook is reportedly launching a Facebook email client this Monday. Soon you'll be able to have your very own @facebook.com email address. This is great. Now we'll have something to email our Yahoo and Gmail addresses with.
Do you need to access the fan webring for Boy Meets World's Rider Strong, but can't now that Geocities has been shut down? Fret not! The "Archive Team" is putting all 900 GB of Geocities into a publicly-available torrent. [via]
It's possible Rupert Murdoch could buy Yahoo if AOL doesn't. His tech isn't cutting edge, but he does hate Google.
AOL might buy Yahoo with private equity investors, sell off large parts of the company, and run the rest as a rival to Google in online advertising, The Wall Street Journal reported. It would be a deal of unprecedented irrelevance.
