Yahoo 4Q Earnings Fail To Impress Wall Street

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Yahoo pinned its hopes on Marissa Mayer, the longtime Google executive that it hired as CEO. The move was welcomed by investors and analysts, with the company’s stock almost doubling last year, as they were counting on Mayer to return the company to profitability. In 2013, Yahoo made a number of big and small acquisitions, it also revamped few of its services as well as changed its logo. Despite all of that, Yahoo 4Q earnings make it the company’s fourth consecutive quarter with diminishing revenue.

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    Facebook Reportedly Hiring Editors For Paper

    logo_facebook-rgb-7inch2.png.648x0_q90_replace_alphaAs you might have heard not too long ago, Facebook is rumored to be creating their own version of Flipboard called Facebook Paper. This basically pushes news to your feed, but unlike News Feed where it relies on an algorithm to determine what sort of news you might be interested in and what you might want to read about, Facebook Paper will use actual human beings to help curate news and deliver content instead, which we guess has its pros and cons. On one hand it might provide you access to the latest news faster, but on the other hand the topics that are delivered might be biased depending on who’s serving it up. In any case it looks like Facebook Paper is inching towards reality as according to reports, it seems that Facebook is currently in the process of hiring Editors for the new feature.

    According to Re/code’s sources, they claim that Paper Editors will only be able to choose content from the ones that have already been published. This is good news for websites who might appreciate the additional promotion, but might not necessarily be useful for some users who will basically be seeing the same information twice. The goal of Paper appears to be more geared towards publishers and encouraging them to post content on Facebook rather than promote their news on alternative platforms, such as Twitter, for example. No word on when Paper will launch but it has been rumored to be announced in the coming weeks, so be sure to check back with us then for the details.

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    Wikipedia WikiVIP project records celebrity voices for posterity

    The recent deaths of prominent and inspirational personalities have probably led to the awareness of the brevity of life and of people’s memories. In that light, this new WikiVIP project … Continue reading

    Pinterest GIF Support Is Finally Here

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    Pinterest has actually become quite popular over the years, moreover its been actively offering new features to users to keep them onboard. Just recently it launched a new recipe search engine, allowing users to search thousands of recipe pins from public boards, which means that they’ll never run out of dishes to try out. Today, the much awaited Pinterest GIF support has finally been added. They can be played and paused within pinboards, making Pinterest’s statement that it now supports GIFs “in all their animated glory,” very true.

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    Foreign Microsoft Users Can Have Their Data Stored Outside The U.S.

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    Following a string of revelations about U.S. government backed electronic spying programs, which also included monitoring of foreign citizens’ internet traffic, Microsoft has announced a new move that has won the appreciation of privacy advocates. The company will allow foreign users to choose whether or not they want their data to be stored in Microsoft’s U.S. based data centers. If they’re not open to the idea, they can request to have the data stored outside the U.S.

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    Top Gear Test Track Added To Google Street View

    Fans of the famous British motoring show Top Gear will know its equally famous test track very well. Definitely the envy of many a YouTube motoring show host, the track is mainly used for trying out the very best of cars that appear on the BBC show, apart from hosting the “Star in the Reasonably Priced Car,” celebrities who try going around it in record time while driving an average car. The track itself is off limits to fans as well as the live studio audience, but now they get to experience it thanks to Google Street View.

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    Google Calendar Privacy Flaw Discovered

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    Terence Eden is a developer who has discovered a privacy flaw in Google Calendar. He found that Calendar will automatically invite anyone whose email is entered in the title of an entry, even if the user makes that entry in their private calendar and does not plan on inviting anyone else. Invitations are sent without notifying the user. The recipient does not receive an email notification, however a “meeting reminder” pops up, which might cause some awkward situations even if it doesn’t have major security implications. For example, if a user creates an entry in their private calendar that reads “email adam@example.com and ask for a loan,” Mr. Adam will receive an invitation and will therefore know that he’s going to be requested for a loan.

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    Total Netflix Subscribers Expected To Have Crossed 33 Million

    Total Netflix Subscribers Expected To Have Crossed 33 Million

    Netflix has made quite a name for itself, after all it happens to be the largest online subscription streaming service in the world. It has seen steady growth over the past few quarters, its rapidly expanding library and critically acclaimed original content such as House of Cards and Orange is the new Black certainly helped to an extent. Due to make an official announcement later today, Bloomberg estimates that U.S. Netflix subscribers have now crossed 33.1 million, with roughly 2.05 million being added in the previous quarter alone.

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    Facebook Ads Being Tested In Third-Party Apps

    Facebook Ads Being Tested In Third Party Apps

    Advertisements are a major source of revenue for Facebook. There are a wide variety of options that potential advertisers can choose from, Page owners can pay Facebook to increase the visibility of their posts, while advertisers can even run ads on the world’s largest social network to direct traffic to external websites. Its ad platform is working very well inside the social network, but what if it was let loose on the outside? That’s exactly what is Facebook is testing at a small scale right now. The company is using its own ad serving platform, as opposed to an outside platform, to deliver ads to third-party mobile applications.

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    Chrome Exploit Can Allow Hackers To Listen In Even After A Tab Is Closed

    Chrome Exploit Can Allow Hackers To Listen In Even After A Tab Is Closed

    There’s an exploit in Google’s popular Chrome browser that can allow hackers to listen in to a user’s offline conversation through their computer’s microphone even after the tab has been closed. The exploit lies in Chrome’s microphone settings, if a website is given permission to use the device’s microphone in Chrome, it can easily use a pop-up window to keep accessing the microphone and even record while being hidden in the background. Closing the tab will have no effect on the pop-up window’s ability to listen in.

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