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The internet portal with the most embarrassing name, Yahoo!, has launched a web app for visualizing its most popular headlines for various reader demographics. A recent survey of Yahoo's most popular stories for various age groups turned into a chilling tableau of American anxieties at every juncture of life. More »
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It is rough out there for tech executives. Positively awful, and the better off a plutocrat is, the worse things get. Or at least that's what I gather from some recent headlines in the wealthy business man's newspaper of choice, the Wall Street Journal. More »
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Gigantic internet zombie Yahoo announced it's installed Scott Thompson as CEO, replacing the scary lady who cussed. Thompson was president of noted precious antique destroyer PayPal, isn't big on journalism, and dresses like Mitt Romney's less cool older brother. More »
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In what may be the first case of tragic e-mail spam, a family keeps receiving spam emails from their dead mother's email account. From wtsp.com: More »
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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. More »
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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. More »
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The ever-expanding Google corporation doesn't seem to care very much if people regard it as a creepy, evil monopolizer. The Wall Street Journal reports that the company has talked to "at least two" private equity firms about helping them buy Yahoo, one of its major competitors. More »
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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. More »
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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." More »
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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. More »
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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. More »
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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 assumptions. More »
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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. More »
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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. More »
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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. More »
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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! More »
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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. More »
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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. More »
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"John Lennon's family and friends today": What do they look like? According to Yahoo! (taking a page from the Washington Post) they look like a World of Warcraft orc or monster or something. No wonder the Beatles broke up! More »
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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?" More »
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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. More »
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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. More »
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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] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5676257&view=rss&microfeed=true It's possible Rupert Murdoch could buy Yahoo if AOL doesn't. His tech isn't cutting edge, but he does hate Google. More »
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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. More »
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Yahoo's cursing CEO Carol Bartz is hemorrhaging executives and taking flack for her verbal rampages. No worries: Bartz sent a companywide email saying she's down in her "foxhole... Everyone stay calm." Just watch out for grenades! [All Things Digital] More »
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Associated Content is the Yahoo-owned content farm which churns out highly search-optimized—but barely-readable—articles on such topics as 'How to Find the Right Color Bathing Suit for Your Body Type!' They have a strange, clown-obsessed employee! More »
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Here's a clip of Carol Bartz speaking more bluntly than the potty-mouthed Yahoo CEO has ever spoken in public before. She tells TechCrunch editor Mike Arrington to "fuck off," and that's not the start of it. More »
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Yahoo bought Associated Content, known for churning out search-driven posts with an army of freelancers. The internet company is just the latest trying a hybrid cheap/pricey, highbrow/lowbrow approach to online journalism. More »
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What does Yahoo's new style book offer that you can't get from your old AP Style Guide? Tips on search engine optimization and the "on-screen placement for a top story." Welcome to the glorious future of language. More »
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Sometimes making a fortune is dumb, writes entrepreneur Charlie O'Donnell—which is why, O'Donnell adds, Foursquare will wisely walk away from a rumored $100 million offer from Yahoo. It's the sort of cocky move pioneered by companies like Twitter. More »
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In your energizing Wednesday media column: ad spending is rising towards an inevitable deadly explosion, Yahoo hires some good writers, AOL enters the food blog wars, and a Cleveland reporter is a wanted man. More »
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Carol Bartz must be getting lonely. First one of the Yahoo CEO's assistants ditched her a for hipper chief executive. And now her top salesperson is doing likewise — and Bartz learned about it by reading the news. More »
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Google is putting its profits and growth on the line to stand up to China's authoritartian practices. Whatever we might suspect about its motives, the company deserves applause for that. Maybe now it can lead an allied, anti-repression tech force. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5447392&view=rss&microfeed=true • The epic mess at NBC continues: The last-place network is now thinking above moving Jay Leno to a 11:35pm-12:05am time slot and then having Conan O'Brien follow him for a full hour. But no deal has been reached, and there's still a possibility that Conan will abandon ship. [NYT, LAT, BN, NYT] More »
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The disgraced former NBC chief who left the network to become the Something-something of Somewhere Online has enlisted Arrested Development's Jason Bateman and Will Arnett to create a new digital production company, called DumbDumb. An apt title. More »
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Carol Bartz's lacerating eccentricity may captivate Silicon Valley, where she's cutting costs left and right. Not so in Europe: When Yahoo tried to shut down operations in France, workers made this surreal, defiant video. And went on strike, naturally. More »
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Lawful online spying is so common, Yahoo has a detailed price list to reimburse for staff time helping authorities: $10 for basic account information, $35 for the whole email inbox, etc. China's authoritarians presumably get a discount. More »
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