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TechCrunch has a new owner, again. Yahoo has sold the tech news site to the private equity firm Regent for an undisclosed sum, according to an announcement on Friday, The Verge reported. Regent is the same company that snapped up Foundry, the firm behind outlets like PCWorld, MacWorld, and TechAdvisor on Thursday. Founded in 2005, TechCrunch has experienced many shakeups
Dear Yahoo, I'm sorry but I'm breaking up with you, and I'm afraid that it's you, not me. We've been together for over ten years, from the early days of Flickr and Yahoo Groups, but you've hurt my feelings twice now and I think you've been cheating on me. It's been fun but it's not going to work out. There's no
In a recent Progress Report, Yahoo announced that it will be retiring a few of their products. The one that is getting the most attention is the Yahoo Directory. Is it strange that I feel nostalgia for a piece of the internet that I haven't actually used in years? Yahoo Directory is something I remember from when I was in
On November 24, 2013, researchers at Trustwave discovered that hackers have obtained up to 2 million passwords for websites like Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, Twitter (and others). Researchers learned this after digging into source code from Pony bonnet. It appears that information about this has only been made public very recently. Here's some quick stats about some of the domains from
They talked about it for over a year. People were confused why the personal homepage was shuttering. But is the page really gone, or just hiding? iGoogle Shut Down On November 1st, iGoogle - the webpage that allowed you to add RSS feeds, widgets and more - went offline. It was over a year in the making when Google announced
Remember AltaVista? I was quite surprised to learn that it was still in existence. Many of us have moved on to other search engines since AltaVista was created. If you are feeling a sense of nostalgia about AltaVista, you should probably go use it soon. Its days are numbered. Yahoo! acquired AltaVista in 2003. Yahoo! has announced several of the
Flickr looks a lot different today than how it used to. Yahoo! (which owns Flickr) has given Flickr a makeover that includes a brand new design. What once showed you small thumbnails of photos, with a lot of white, empty, space surrounding them, now features the photos much more prominently. To me, it seems like Flickr's new look resembles that