Articles tagged with: yahoo
Web Hosting Presence at Cloudera Hadoop World NYC 2009 Confirmed
Hosting sponsors have been confirmed for Hadoop company commercial Cloudera by the World Hadoop inaugural conference to be held on Friday 2 October at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York. The 12 sponsors confirmed for World Hadoop: NYC 2009 are Facebook, Rackspace, Yahoo, Intel, IBM, Amazon.com, Supermicro, Softlayer, and eHarmony. Confirmed media sponsors include GigaOm, […]
Yahoo to spend $100M to rejuvenate brand
Yahoo will invest more than $ 100 million in its latest attempt to rejuvenate one of the best known brands on the Internet is better. The money is poured into a 15-month campaign to begin marketing next week. Yahoo provided a look Tuesday at the Advertising Week bombing in New York. The ads are to […]
Yahoo puts hosting business up for sale 500 million
After putting on the market for several months, a provider of Web Search Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com) has a price tag as high as $ 500 million in its business unit that hosts websites for small businesses, two unidentified sources told Reuters. Seeking $ 350 million to $ 500 million for Yahoo Small Business (smallbusiness.yahoo.com), Yahoo received […]
Bing increases US search share
New Microsoft search engine Bing got a slight increase in their share of the U.S. search market in August, the third straight month of gains, according to tracking firm comScore online. Bing, the Redmond, Washington-based software giant announced in late May, increasing its market share to 9.3 percent in August from 8.9 percent in July and […]
Cloudera Hadoop World NYC 2009 Confirmed
Christophe Bisciglia, founding father of Cloudera remarked, “To have such an enormous number of industry leaders sponsor a first-time event speaks volumes about the significance of Hadoop and its future. As normal ventures around the planet are turning to Hadoop to clear up data-intensive computing challenges, Hadoop World will supply forcing use cases with the […]
EU Launch Informal Talks on Microsoft, Yahoo Deal
Antitrust regulators in the EU have been involved in informal talks with Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) and Yahoo (www.yahoo.com) in conjunction with the association of search engines, according to several reports citing a source familiar with the situation. So far it is too early to see if the EU executive will result in a formal conversation, antitrust […]
Yahoo! Buys Arab Web Portal as Part of Middle East Expansion
In order to snare a regional online advertising market which will increase as much as forty % this year, web search provider Yahoo. According to Yahoo’s statement this week, Web users in the area will find advantages in the mixture of Yahoo’s products and services with Maktoob’s forcing local content, which now reaches a 3rd […]
Whats in Yahoo’s Future?
Yahoo’s long nightmare is over, having eventually offloaded its search business to Microsoft after years of rumours, talks and reversals. Now all it’s got to do is work out what comes next. A new age at Yahoo started the minute Chairman Carol Bartz signed the forms turning over a right to conduct searches on Yahoo’s […]
More Microsoft n Yahoo
Microsoft’s search deal with Yahoo is the fruits of months of well documented talks, but in a number of ways, it is only the start of the long road ahead. In the approaching months, Microsoft and Yahoo will not just need to win licensing permission for the deal, but also work out the way to […]
Microsoft n Yahoo
Backers panned Yahoo’s search and advertising deal with Microsoft on Wed. , sending Yahoo’s stock down 12 p.c. IDC’s researchers called it a “strategic mistake. But here’s what’s good about it : After a year and a twelve public ditching, behind-the-scenes drama, and dysfunctional communications thru leaks to the press, Microsoft and Yahoo now can […]
Microsoft Grabs Yahoo Exec
This isn’t the first time a previous Yahoo executive has joined Microsoft’s team. In Feb , Microsoft related Yahoo VP Larry Heck, had joined the company as senior VP of the web services division of Microsoft’s RD group. Others include Microsoft online unit chief Qi Lu, Sean Suchter, and Scott Moore, who originally started at […]
Video and Search ads Looking good
Online advertising could be pulling, but one researcher firm expects the market for video adverts to grow forty five % to $850 million in 2009. An eMarketer study released Tues. outlook more expansion in years ahead : $1.25 bn. in 2010, $1.85 bn. in 2011, $3.0 bln in 2012, and $4.6 bill in 2013. That […]
Online Gaming Addiction
Have you had work piling up, a MD respiring down your neck wondering when it’ll get done, and the strongest urge to forget about it for a bit and head to your fave online gaming site to waste the hours away in a blaze of gaming glory? Due to that, I have assembled a listing […]
AOL, Others Consider Bidding on Yahoo
Global Internet services and media company AOL (www.aol.com) and a handful of private equity firms are considering proposing an offer to buy search engine and other services for the Internet company Yahoo (www.yahoo. com), according to a report in The Wall Street Journal citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter.According to the Wall Street Journal […]
Google “King of Malware”
Barracuda Networks Inc., a leading provider of content security, data protection and application delivery solutions, today launched the Barracuda Laboratories Midyear 2010 Report on the security, reveal the data in two key areas: search engine malware and the use of Twitter and the crime rate. The company presents this data in security Bside DefCon in […]
