Despite missing almost half of the season due to a nagging right shoulder injury, Maria Sharapova topped the Yahoo! Most Searched Athletes of 2008 list. She was followed by two more superstars of women’s sports, mixed martial arts star Gina Carano and IndyCar race driver Danica Patrick.
Yahoo and Intel built their success upon widespread use of personal computers, but the two companies hope products to be shown at next week’s Consumer Electronics Show will mark the beginning of their Internet-fueled expansion to the world of TV as well.
It?s no secret that this has been a tough year for Yahoo. For investors, the company?s two major setbacks were the failed merger negotiations with Microsoft and the failed advertising partnership with Google, which disintegrated in the face of opposition from advertisers and the Justice Department.
BoomTown’s got nothing, which is not something I like to say very much. I am talking about the Yahoo CEO search, which is either being done by the Internet giant’s board in such elegant secrecy and with such amazing stealth that it is getting by everyone.
Google pulled out of a proposed advertising partnership with Yahoo yesterday after the Justice Department signaled it would oppose the deal because it could help the dominant Web company become a monopoly.
NEW YORK: Former Vodafone Group Plc Chief Executive Arun Sarin has decided not to pursue the CEO job at Yahoo Inc, the Financial Times reported, citing people close to him.
Been made redundant recently? Psychology professor-turned-songwriter Michelle Chappel was one of the 1,500 laid off by Yahoo (no, I can’t quite imagine what she did there either) but has a unique spin on how to deal with it; she’s made a song out of it, and put it on YouTube . Not even Flickr Video , just to rub salt in one of Yahoo’s many wounds… Her solution? If Yahoo had …
A Michigan-based networking company on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Google, Microsoft, and Apple alleging that all three tech giants violated a patent it owns on the use of document-preview icons–or thumbnails–in operating systems.
Two years after he left, the ghost of TV executive Lloyd Braun still haunts Yahoo. Which is why a report of lost perks in Yahoo’s L.A. office turned into an evisceration of the ex-exec. The Los…
A small Indiana company has sued tech heavyweights Microsoft, Apple, and Google, claiming that it holds the patent on a common file preview feature used by browsers and operating systems to show users small snapshots of the files before they are opened.
