Yahoo! is an Internet corporation globally known for its Web portal, search engine Yahoo Search, and related services, including Yahoo Directory, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Groups, Yahoo Answers, advertising, online mapping, video sharing, fantasy sports and its social media website. It is one of the most popular sites in the United States. The site began in 1994 as a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages. In 1998, Yahoo! was the most popular starting point for web users.
On this week’s Structure Show podcast, Linode CEO Chris Aker takes exception to the term “virtual private server” and talks about how there is life for cloud providers other than AWS. Read more »
Yahoo has been rebuilding its research focus, and now a 250-person strong Yahoo Labs is trying to build the future of content. Full of experts in everything from personalization to deep… Read more »
Innovation and change in the mobile industry is driving demand for increased control of data and the user experience of location-based apps. New tools and approaches are emerging to meet this… Read more »
Kail — with 23 years of IT operations at Netflix and Attensity under his belt — brings both experience and vision to his new post at Yahoo, according to Marissa Mayer. Read more »
Depending on how you define Microsoft’s new “core” areas, employees in Qi Lu’s or Scott Guthrie’s groups are relatively safe. Those working on Windows client stuff? Maybe not. Read more »
Given the usual strategy for OTT communications apps is to grow big and then sell out to an internet giant, Line’s plan to go independent runs counter to the market. Read more »
Yahoo has released a massive dataset for researchers to experiment on. The dataset includes URLs for nearly 100 million images and 700,000 videos, as well as their metadata. Soon, a larger… Read more »