To impress shareholders, Yahoo Inc’s next chief executive needs just one qualification: the willingness to do a deal with Microsoft Corp.That’s because this remains Yahoo’s best option, short of a dramatic turnaround plan, analysts said.
But if Microsoft does eventually buy Yahoo, shareholders should brace themselves for a price far lower than the $47.5 billion the […]
Shares of Yahoo Inc soared 10 percent on Tuesday on hopes that the departure of Jerry Yang, its embattled chief executive, would clear the way for a deal with Microsoft Corp.Yahoo announced late on Monday that Yang, whose leadership had come under growing criticism from shareholders after he failed to agree to a deal with […]
Mobile officials are considering providing free, wireless Internet services in the downtown district, joining the ranks of other cities with free wi-fi for roving laptop users on Main Street.Mobile spokeswoman Barbara Drummond said Tuesday the city is considering free Wi-Fi as part of its long-term planning to attract young professionals and creative people to the […]
Jerry Yang, the chief executive of Yahoo Inc, will step down from his role as soon as the board finds a replacement, the Internet company said on Monday and its shares rose 4 per cent.
Under Yang, Yahoo talks for an acquisition by Microsoft Corp broke down, rival Google Inc pulled out of a deal to […]
The volume of spam on the Internet plunged by about two thirds this week after two US internet service providers cut the internet connections of a company that was using its servers to disseminate billions of unwanted email messages, internet security firms said Friday.Symantec said the number of spam messages had fallen by some 120 […]
Dutch researchers have developed a mind-reading software program that can scan a brain to decipher the sounds spoken to a person, and even who is saying them.Neuroscientists at Maastricht University in The Netherlands say that they trained the software by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to track the brain activity of seven people, while […]
Videogame sales are expected to be strong this year and in 2009, despite the economic troubles that have hurt some retail stores that sell the games, industry executives said on Thursday.Speaking at the BMO Capital Markets interactive entertainment conference in New York, they said their optimism is fueled by solid sales of advanced game consoles […]
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has inspired a new online video game.The game, which sees Obama running round a world modelled on Nintendo’s Super Mario World, takes a satirical look at US politics.
It shows Obama collecting flags and dodging lipstick-wearing pit bulls, lobbyists, and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
The developers of the game, which is free to […]
An Australian technology firm has come up with a unique battery power super card, which they believe can fight online fraud.The company reckons that it can stop up to 1 billion dollars a year in credit card fraud with its new revolutionary invention.
The card, which includes an alpha-numeric display, built-in microprocessor, a keypad and three […]
Online video-sharing website, YouTube has struck a golden deal with Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s (MGM) to show full length movies in their archives.The collaboration is mainly aimed at earning advertising revenue for both YouTube and the studio.
The partnership will result in the launch of a video-on-demand channel called Impact, which will wholly and solely cater exclusively […]