by admin at Saturday, June 21, 2008 in Yahoo
Tags: Web News, Yahoo Inc
SAN FRANCISCO- There is a rapid thinning in Yahoo Inc.’s management after putting off a shareholder’s defiance intimidating to terminate in the firing of CEO Jerry Yang.
According to some reports that published by ALLthings, Techcrunch and The New York Times on Thursday, told that three more execs have decided to department. However, the reports were anonymously based with know-how of the goers.
The new migrants are: Qi Lu who was Yahoo search and advertising technology’s executive vice president, a senior vice president Brad Garlinghouse who involved in communications tools and Vish Makhijani who supervised Yahoo’s search.
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by admin at Friday, June 20, 2008 in Internet
Tags: Firefox, Web News
NEW YORK –On Tuesday, Firefox Web browser’s new version became available as a free download.
The release had to delay as visitors overloaded Firefox’s Web server to check for the update. According to AlertSite which is an Internet performance observing company, the site was almost unreachable for almost two hours that started about 12:45 pm Eastern time which was 15 minutes earlier than the told release time. AlertSite further told that the performance was better later in the day.
Launch parties were organized by Firefox supporters around the world as they tried to make a new world record of most software downloads during the period of 24-hour.
This is a new category and Guinness World Records must take a week or longer to certify it.
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by admin at Monday, May 19, 2008 in Internet
Tags: Web News
SAN FRANCISCO — To distinguish itself from Google and other online big players, Ask.com is going to buy loads of internet reference sites including Dictionary.com.
In its purchase of Lexico Publishing Group LLC, Ask.com is also trying to get Thesaurus.com and Reference.com besides Dictionary.com. The terms of this deal have not been disclosed but expected to be announced on Thursday.
Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com are widely used as reference tools and with their addition, Ask is trying to make more money by showing ads to people who want answers about their basic questions.
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