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What if Yahoo of all people is the one to get web TV right?

Jan 12, 2011
We've been cringing along with Google for a few months now as their Google TV product flounders and flops around. Apple TV is selling well but is...

Paul Allen renews lawsuit against everyone everywhere for doing everything

Dec 29, 2010
The Microsoft co-founder has been actively suing the following companies for a while now: Apple, Google, Facebook, eBay, AOL, Netflix, Yahoo,...

How Flickr missed the boat that Instagram caught

Dec 27, 2010
Instagram is one of the hottest new social media platforms out there. It's all about photo sharing, super easy to use your iPhone to take pictures,...

"Change your password" - everyone

Dec 14, 2010
The security breach at Gawker Media we told you about yesterday continues to have ripple effects on other sites. That's because so many people use...

COICA gets out of committee

Nov 18, 2010
The Senate Judiciary Committee has passed the Combating Online Infringement and Copyright Act. The bill would allow the US Attorney General to go...

Microsoft allows Gmail in Hotmail

Nov 2, 2010
Which is weird. So now if you're on Hotmail, you can import the contents of your Gmail account or your Yahoo account into your Hotmail interface....

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Yahoo tinkers with search

Oct 7, 2010
The search war would seem to have been won by Google long ago but the battles range on nevertheless. In Yahoo's case, there is still plenty of...

Facebook takes on search. A way bigger story than you might realize.

Jun 25, 2010
The seemingly innocuous Like button recently spread from Facebook to sites all over the web as part of Facebook's Open Graph program. You read...

Search engine popularity metrics range from opaque to meaningless

Jun 11, 2010
I've been trying to make sense of a couple recent articles about the latest information on the popularity of the major search engines. It seems...