Yahoo’s co-founder Jerry Yang resigns after 17 years

Posted on 17, Jan 2012 | Posted by David Beharall

Yang steps down Jerry Yang, who co-founded search engine Yahoo! in 1995 with David Filo, has officially resigned from the Board of Directors and all other positions at the company. The search engine’s new CEO Scott Thompson commented on the [...]

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Yahoo! launches new Search Direct feature in the UK

Posted on 24, Nov 2011 | Posted by David Beharall

Yahoo! has announced its new Search Direct feature in the UK and has made improvements to its image and video search. The new Yahoo! feature predicts search results as the person types each character. It will also show the person’s correct answer before the search button is clicked.

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Yahoo fails to keep up with Google and Facebook

Posted on 21, Sep 2011 | Posted by David Beharall

What went wrong? Yahoo has been in the news for sacking its chief executive Carol A. Bartz. According to news reports she was asked to leave the company for failing to develop new social networking tools, video apps and mobile [...]

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Should social networks insist on using your real name?

Posted on 5, Aug 2011 | Posted by David Beharall

Google+ causes a stir Social network Google+ has caused a stir this week by enforcing a policy to use a real name when setting up an account. If an account is called “Dman533” for example, Google will simply delete it. [...]

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Barack Obama – New media star 2008

Posted on 6, Jan 2009 | Posted by David Beharall

If i were giving an award for new media star of 2008 it would go to American President-elect Barack Obama. He left his mark in the history books by raising $500m (£306m) in donations via the Internet for his Presidential [...]

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