Business
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Yahoo Tried Hard — But Failed — To Avoid Joining PRISM
While everyone’s sceptical about how and why so many tech companies are involved with PRISM, the New York Times has run a heartening piece, which describes how Yahoo fought hard — but ultimately failed — to avoid joining the initiative.
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Microsoft: This Is How We Design Today
Microsoft has never been cool and its product have never looked cool. The 38-year-old company was founded on 1’s and 0’s. Design was never in the company’s DNA. It was never about aesthetics and it didn’t have to be. But its plain to see that the Microsoft of today is a little bit hipper, a…
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Flashback: How Yahoo Killed Flickr And Lost The Internet
In the wake of Yahoo’s $US1.1 billion acquisition of beloved social platform Tumblr, it’s perhaps worth looking back what the company did after it caught — and gutted — another big fish. Yes, Yahoo’s a different company now, especially with Marissa Mayer at the helm. And Tumblr, along with its price tag, are an order…
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21st Century Fox’s First Logo Fixes What Wasn’t Broken
The logo is a volatile instrument. It can do more harm than good if it’s introduced the wrong way, or with too much fanfare, or with too much self-congratulation (remember the Gap debacle?). Which might explain why the unveiling of 21st Century Fox’s first identity, yesterday afternoon, could’ve easily slipped under the radar.