Posts Tagged with ‘Yahoo!-News’

MySpace is apparently branching out to challenge Digg and Netscape in the News Arena. MySpace News will bring the news to its huge audience with essentially the same user recommendation capabilities as Digg and Netscape, but unlike these sites will scan thousands of web journals and news sites. The new service appears to be aimed [...]

Just when we thought Google was done with big international moves, news arrives about the behemoth opening an operations center near Wroclaw, Poland. According to a local newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, the company's European sales executive Colm Long said the search for center personnel has already begun.  According to an AFP/Yahoo! press release, Wroclaw has become something [...]

It's hard to dislike Yahoo!, is it not? Why would you? The company’s got a funny name, it’s been working the anything-and-everything angle very well over the years, and though it remains #2 in the search and online advertising businesses, the company’s numbers are still shrouded in black. Things are going well for Yahoo!. Still, [...]

News today from Time Inc. notes the passing of yet another icon of print media. A story from Reuters via Yahoo! News announced Life magazine will no longer grace newsstands with its photography. We talk a good deal about traditional media coming to Web 2.0, and it is usually really good news for those of [...]

How is the Web 2.0 social networking scene doing. We connect and connect and I always wonder exactly how the scene is doing. On Wednesday Hitwise revealed that online traffic to MySpace increased 10.2 percent in February. Smaller players like Buzznet and iMeem also benefited with traffic increases over 11 percent. Visits to photo journal sharing [...]

Amazon and TiVo running to grab some of the Internet video download market. Today Amazon.com announced the launch of a new service that allows users to watch video purchased online via their TiVo set-top boxes. Announced last month as "Amazon Unbox in Tivo", this service provides the Unbox downloads to 1.5 million TiVo subscribers. Just [...]

Is the next Russian President a computer geek? Perhaps not, be at least he's Web 2.0 savvy. Dmitry Medvedev, Russian first deputy prime minister, hosted a two hour Internet conference on Monday. Medvedev is the obvious choice to succeed Russian President Vladimir Putin according to most experts, and Medvedev used this opportunity to introduce himself to an audience [...]

Amidst pressure and even torture - liberal Egyptians struggle to be heard! Let Our Bloggers Go! I wrote a post on the 24thabout an Egyptian blogger who was sentenced to prison for criticizing the power structure in Egypt. Abdel Kareem Suleiman was imprisoned for 4 years after al-Azhar University filed a complaint about 8 articles he [...]

Free ethnic programming for Joost – Phase 3 for dominating Web TV! Well, here is some happy news from Joost! Besides clearing up a communication problem between Profy and Joost over my inbox full of requests for invitations, Joost has snagged yet another chunk of free broadcasting for you guys. It looks like Joost had sealed a deal with [...]