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Today Yahoo! announced they have purchased Tumblr for $1.1 billion. Of course, Yahoo's track record for buying companies seems to be that of a kid with ADHD at Christmas time - by February they want new toys. Will this be a great deal for Yahoo! or will we they just push aside for another acquisition down the road. Yahoo! Acquires
You may have written off Yahoo search, but the company themselves haven't yet given up, even though they have outsourced most everything to Bing. Today the former leader of the industry rolled out a brand new version of their video and image search. Yahoo has strengthened their partnership with Getty Images to help power the new features. Getty brings with
It's a bold move to Yahoo! to do, but they have come out with their own browser. Calling itself a "Search Browser", Axis has added many features to not only go to web pages, but also search on relevant content. With the tabs browser below and a login system to personalize experience, this might just be the browser to replace
The latest search market share numbers have been released and two trends have continued - Bing is up and Yahoo is down. The numbers have been posted by both Compete and ComScore and the trends shown by both are very similar. Unfortunately for Microsoft, while Bing is gaining share on Yahoo, they are not getting anywhere in their battle against
Yahoo today announced the 10th anniversary edition of their Year in Review. The top 10 searched terms are a general barometer of the year, giving insight into the biggest products, news stories, and celebrities. Yahoo boasts about 700 million unique monthly users, so these results do provide a pretty good overview of the hot topics of the year. Yahoo has
This week Yahoo put out a magazine style newsreader called Lifestand for the iPad. I am constantly looking at these types of applications having tried both Zite and FlipBoard, so when Lifestand became available I decided to give it a try. First like both Zite and FlipBoard it is beautifully made and well design. Setting it up is easy and
Yahoo is releasing a new weather app for Android and it looks like they have finally found a use for Flickr - not a profit from it, but a use for it, at least. Yes, there are literally hundreds of weather apps for Android, and there's a Flickr app as well, but Yahoo found a way to combine the two