Have you been frustrated to consistently find that the highly specific domain of your dreams is never available? If so, there’s a good chance that Yahoo has been sitting on it for quite some time. And it’s about to be your lucky day—Yahoo is getting ready
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Last month, Yahoo lost one of its latest legal efforts to delay a search transition with its long-term partner, Microsoft, in both Hong Kong and Taiwan. The given reason was that Yahoo wanted to wait until Microsoft selected a CEO, with the going reason being that Yahoo CEO Mayer wants to back out of the […]
Yahoo announced today that it has released an updated version of its Yahoo Finance app for iPhone and iPad. The app now delivers personalized news, real-time insights and data in an entirely redesigned experience, allowing users to follow the stocks and companies they need to keep any eye on, whenever and wherever they want. The app displays real-time price changes, interactive charts as well as breaking news and information about publicly listed companies.
Yahoo Releases New Finance App For iOS original content from Ubergizmo. 
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There are a couple of Google engineers working for the Google security team replying in kind to the NSA and the GCHQ (on the other side of the ocean) regarding the most recent round of Edward Snowden-leaked documents on government snooping into Google and Yahoo cloud networks. What you’ll find is a rather everyman-level bit […]
The National Security Agency, in conjunction with England’s NSA counterpart Government Communications Headquarters, has been secretly intercepting Google and Yahoo data transmissions around the world, according to a new analysis of the Snowden documents. The documents show how the two spy agencies can cooperate to send copies of customer records en masse to the NSA’s […]
The former technical analyst for the CIA, Edward Snowden, who leaked a treasure trove of documents earlier detailing the National Security Agency’s various electronic spying programs is back with another cache of highly classified documents. These documents, which have been provided and confirmed by sources to The Washington Post, reveal that the NSA tapped into Google and Yahoo data centers around the world without telling either company. This, despite the fact that both companies are already said to be involved in PRISM, a program that gives the NSA front door access to their user accounts through a process approved by FISA courts.
NSA Apparently Tapped Into Google And Yahoo Data Centers Around The World original content from Ubergizmo. 
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A rolling stone might gather no moss, and companies certainly do not want to remain stuck in a single place without making any progress at all in relation to its competitors. Having said that, one of the ways that companies could improve themselves would be by doing plenty of research and development on their own part, or alternatively, purchase companies that already have the kind of expertise which they are looking for. In this case, Yahoo has acquired LookFlow, an image recognition company, in order to ensure that their plan to improve photo discovery on Flickr will be able to kick off on the right note.
Just what does LookFlow’s technology deliver? Well, it will rely on machine learning in order to assist folks in locating and exploring images. This is a goal that is in alignment with those from Yahoo’s Flickr photo-sharing service, according to the good people at LookFlow. All five engineers at LookFlow will accompany the technology that they built to Yahoo’s Flickr business in San Francisco. Do expect to see LookFlow’s product incorporated into a future version of Flickr. We do hope to see improvements made to Flickr, as any edge is a good one, no matter how slight.
Yahoo Picks Up LookFlow So That Flickr Can Improve original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Yahoo has been denied a request to delay Microsoft’s Bing search in Taiwan, something that is required under a partnership the company has with Microsoft. The reason cited was the upcoming Microsoft CEO shift, with Yahoo’s CEO Mayer wishing to delay the search in Hong Kong and Taiwan until Microsoft appointed a new chief executive […]
Have you updated your Yahoo Fantasy Sports Football app yet? No? Then you better get your ass on over to the App Store. Because as Yahoo so kindly reminded us, Y3K is just around the (thousand-year-long) corner, and it’s never too early to start preparing for the end.
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It has been over a year since Marissa Mayer became the CEO at Yahoo, but her dynamic leadership has not managed to bring a permanent boost to the company as its revenues and profits still remain down, never mind that Ms. Mayer has not stopped purchasing other start-ups that she figured out would be essential to make sure that Yahoo has a strong future ahead. In fact, during the previous quarter, Yahoo picked up a total of eight start-ups, including Xobni, an e-mail service, and Bignoggins, a programming house that does fantasy sports mobile apps, in addition to rolling out 15 new product updates.
Ms. Mayer claimed that the slew of products unveiled and acquired resulted in a 20 percent increase in Yahoo’s traffic, which actually touched the 800 million monthly user mark in September, which was the first reversal in Yahoo’s traffic decline in a couple of years. The growth, of course, did not take Tumblr into consideration, even though Yahoo picked up the service sometime last May.
Unfortunately, Yahoo, a company that used to be the biggest seller of display ads, has ceded its share of the display advertising market for years. This particular market share is tipped to drop to 7.7% from a 8.6% market share last year, whereas Google and Facebook’s share of the market is said to grow and touch 17.4% and 17%, respectively.
Yahoo Ad Share Slips original content from Ubergizmo. 
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