Tagged: Yahoo! & News
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Yahoo! in ‘serious’ talks to acquire Tumblr for US$1bn News
17.05.2013 Yahoo! is believed to be in acquisition talks with social blogging site Tumblr in a deal estimated to be worth up to US$1bn. -
Roundtable: Facebook directors on Sheryl Sandberg and the Lean In phenomenon News
11.05.2013 With so much dialogue generated around Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s best-seller, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, Ann O’Dea caught up with two of Facebook’s most... -
Yahoo!’s chairman of the board Fred Amoroso resigns News
26.04.2013 Internet giant Yahoo!’s chairman of the board Fred Amoroso has resigned from the position and will not seek re-election to the board of directors at the company’s upcoming...Tags: Yahoo! -
Yahoo! launches new Weather and Mail apps News
19.04.2013 Internet giant Yahoo! does indeed appear to be moving to quickly “roll out beautifully designed, more intuitive experiences” for its users – the company has unleashed new... -
Yahoo! reports 36pc profit increase while revenue slides 7pc News
17.04.2013 Lower operating costs helped buoy internet giant Yahoo!’s first-quarter profit up 36pc to US$390m from the same period last year, while its revenue for the quarter dipped 7pc to... -
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushes for immigration reform News
12.04.2013 Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg, along with other Silicon Valley leaders, has launched a new initiative called FWD.us aimed at reforming the United States’ outmoded immigration...Categories: Upskilling, Software & Web Development, Science, Recruitment, R&D, Legal, Internet, Hardware, Government, Engineering, Engineer, Digital Media, Digital Business -
LinkedIn buys news reader platform Pulse for US$90m News
12.04.2013 LinkedIn has confirmed its acquisition of Alphonso Labs, the company behind the mobile news reader app Pulse, for US$90m. The Pulse app, which now boasts more than 30m users... -
Apple and Yahoo! in talks about mobile collaboration – report News
10.04.2013 Yahoo!’s CEO Marissa Mayer is reportedly in talks with Apple’s senior vice-president of internet services Eddy Cue about getting more of Yahoo!’s content and services onto iOS... -
The technology business week: two other offers for Dell, Yahoo! to buy Summly News
02.04.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week. -
Meet Nick D’Aloisio, the 17-year-old entrepreneur Yahoo! just made a millionaire News
26.03.2013 British-Australian Nick D’Aloisio, born in 1995 and student at King’s College School in London, has just seen the company he founded snapped up by Yahoo! for a rumoured US$30m.... -
Yahoo! to acquire news summarising app Summly News
25.03.2013 Internet giant Yahoo! is to acquire mobile product company Summly for an undisclosed sum. -
The technology business week: ITLG starts Women in Leadership Group, Ryanair to appeal €370,000 fine News
25.03.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week. -
Yahoo! to create more than 200 jobs in Dublin News
21.03.2013 Yahoo!’s operations centre in Dublin is growing and the internet giant is to create more than 200 jobs as a result of the expansion in the Irish capital. -
Yahoo! acquires Jybe, welcomes back five former employees News
20.03.2013 Internet giant Yahoo! has acquired personalised recommendation firm Jybe, and with it five former Yahoo! employees. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. -
LinkedIn buys Pulse news reader maker Alphonso Labs for over US$50m News
12.03.2013 Alphonso Labs, the maker of the popular RSS news reader app Pulse, is to be acquired by social network LinkedIn for in excess of US$50m. It is understood that LinkedIn beat off... -
The technology business week: EC fines Microsoft €561m, Icahn vies for 6pc stake in Dell News
11.03.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week.Categories: Sales, Internet, Financial, Consumer Tech, Careers and Employment, Business Intelligence -
Icahn vies for a 6pc stake in computer giant Dell News
07.03.2013 Renowned US corporate raider Carl Icahn, who urged Yahoo! to sell to Microsoft when it had a chance, has waded into the US$24bn refinancing of computer giant Dell and is aiming... -
Yahoo! shutting down seven of its products, including BlackBerry app News
06.03.2013 Internet giant Yahoo! is pulling the plug on seven of its products, including its mobile app for BlackBerry smartphones, in an effort to sharpen its focus, the company’s...