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Is Yahoo Buying Tumblr For A Billion?
Yahoo has a problem: it has no idea what it’s doing, or how it’s going to do it (outside of teenage dream hires). Some people who claim intimate knowledge say the company is going to do it by throwing a serious Hail Mary: buying Tumblr for $US1,000,000,000. That’s one billion.
Yahoo Just Made The Most Beautiful Weather App
For most of us, the weather dictates a lot of our day. Aren’t you constantly checking the weather on your phone? Now, there’s definitely a glut of weather apps available, and most of them you can write off. But Yahoo has released its own weather app today, and it’s one of the prettiest apps around.
Report: Apple And Yahoo Working Together For Deeper Integration On iPhone
Apple is supposedly working with Yahoo, the latter whom will take anybody’s love at this point, to figure out how “Yahoo’s services can play a prominent role on Apple’s iPhone and iPad,” according to the Wall Street Journal. This actually shouldn’t be too much of a surprise as data from Yahoo Finance and weather already pops up on the iPhone.
Rethinking The New Yahoo Homepage
When was the last time you ever checked out Yahoo.com? It’s been a while, right? I’m sure by now you’ve at least typed that URL in once to check out the new home page design. How long did you stay and check it out? Probably not long at all. You see, Yahoo! needs to do a lot more than just simplify a few things here and there. They need change — exciting, surprising, bold change!
Is This Redesign Enough To Make You Care About Yahoo?
We’ve been hearing rumours of a big, game-changing Yahoo redesign since Marissa Mayer came on board as CEO. Hold onto your butts, because it’s finally here. The new Yahoo has an customisable infinite scroll newsfeed! It has Facebook integration! But is it enough to make you give a hoot about Yahoo again? If you ever did to begin with?
Bloomberg: Yahoo, Dell And Google Dodging Taxes In The Netherlands
You associate the Netherlands with Tulips and THC, not tax-evasion, but that’s exactly what some tech companies are using the country for. According to Bloomberg, Yahoo, Dell and Google have set up offices in Holland in order to take advantage of the country’s lenient tax laws and funnel millions and millions of dollars into off-shore subsidiaries.
These Websites Violate Your Privacy
The Wall Street Journal has analysed the top 50 sites in the United States plus 20 other top sites in sensitive categories like dating or health. They found that 25 of these sites — including OKCupid, Pinterest, YouTube, Yahoo — send personal data to other sites in the open, with no security encoding, using your own browser session.
