An interesting development! Yahoo! has announced an Android Smartphone in Japan in order to get some share of the ever growing mobile platform its arch rival Google actually own. According to the latest news report, they decided to release an Android-powered Yahoo! Phone in Japan only, where the internet giant is said to be the…
The tech industry is shaking up with too many changes in organizational structure. Earlier we heard the saddest news from the industry as Apple’s CEO Steve jobs resigned as CEO, then it was Michael Arrington who left his editorial position at Tech Crunch. Today, its the CEO, Carol Bartz, who has been fired from Yahoo…
Lately there has been much excitement around the news of Yahoo! being up for sale. The speculation about Microsoft interested again to buy Yahoo! three years after the initial intent led to uproar among stock analysts and shareholders. Now, another giant of the Silicon Valley, Google, let information slip about the intention to purchase Yahoo!…
Both Yahoo! and Google are expected to unravel their new digital newsstand apps next week, says a report from All Things D. Yahoo will launch Livestand, aimed at tablets and mobile phones and will offer content to people based on their personal interests. Livestand will feature content from Yahoo!’s properties as well as outside publications….
PHP Freelancer According to a recent report published by the news agency Bloomberg, Yahoo! is about to sell assets in China and Japan to a group of investors. Up until now there were numerous speculations related to Yahoo!’s intentions to accept a takeover or to impose reorganization plans. The latest rumour on the matter hinted…
Yahoo is getting super-serious about the role, tablets will play in its future content strategy. The company finally launched its Flipboard-like news reader, Livestand, this week. Also it launched IntoNow, an impressive social TV app for the iPad that marries the check-in functionality of GetGlue with the real-time content identification of Shazam. Livestand pulls in…
This week, AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced their plans to seal off extra online space for ads on each other’s websites. It’s a strategy to slow down Google and Facebook’s ever growing momentum in ads display. This somehow bizarre alliance is designed to sell some of the less-prized ad space that Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc…
It’s been a long time we heard about the concept of “cashless society”, which means more and more usage of digital and mobile payment modes than cash transactions. Interestingly, there is a new prediction from PayPal, which confirms its expected arrival and forecasts that there would be no wallets required in UK by 2016. The…
Facebook users are experiencing another phishing scam sent via email messages, to threaten them to delete their Facebook accounts within 24 hours, if they do not submit their account details. The phishing email messages are accusing Facebook users for violating policy regulations, by annoying or insulting other Facebook users. The email then asks the victim…
It has not been a while since Tablets debuted in the consumer electronics market, but its production, sales and now mainly usage have increased significantly in an year or two. Apparently, the major shift towards tablet came after Apple launched its first iPad on January 10, 2010. The iPad was an amazing thing to experience…
