Jun 28

Yahoo shutting down a dozen products, including AltaVista and Axis

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Yahoo shutting down a dozen products, including AltaVista and Axis

As expected, in amongst the high profile acquisitions that have thus far marked the next step in Yahoo’s evolution, the web company is doing some serious house cleaning. EVP Jay Rossiter took to the exclamatory search company’s Tumblr to announced a whole slew of shut downs. The list includes properties old and new, from AltaVista to Yahoo Axis, along with the sunset date of each one (July 8th and June 28th, respectively). There are a dozen properties in all — you can check out the full list of obits in the source link below.

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Oct 15

Apple snags Amazon’s A9 head to lead Siri team

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Apple snags Amazon's A9 head to lead Siri team

Companies poach each other’s employees and execs all the time. But, Apple’s latest score, William Stasior, is a pretty substantial one. For the last six years he has served as president and CEO of A9, Amazon’s search and ad subsidiary. Before that he held other search-related roles at Amazon and worked at AltaVista, departing around the time of the Yahoo! acquisition. In his new role at Cupertino, Stasior will be leading the Siri team. The MIT Ph.D will be taking the helm of the voice-powered virtual assistant, which has led some to speculate that Apple could be stepping up search and advertising game. Considering the on-going drama between Mountain View and the purveyors of all-things-i, we wouldn’t be entirely surprised to see the two go head to head on Google’s home turf. But we’d say such a move would be a long term goal, at best.

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