Visually speaking: Yahoo Axis, Facebook Camera

Source: Good Morning Silicon Valley

A couple of new offerings from Yahoo and Facebook highlight the fact that people like looking at pretty things. • Yahoo’s Axis is a browser/browser add-on that displays search results visually, something AllThingsD’s Kara Swishe ...
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Yahoo builds a browser, and people actually like it

Source: Econsultancy

The big questions: what can Yahoo do to recapture some of its past glory, if anything at all? One possible answer is so obvious that nobody thought of it earlier: build a browser. Yesterday, Yahoo unveiled Ax ...
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Booting Up: Wait, Facebook’s the Fuck-Up and Yahoo is Innovative?

Source: Betabeat

Pigs are flying and Kara Swisher has something nice to say about Yahoo’s Axis, a new browser for the iPad and iPhone, with a desktop plug-in as well. She calls it–gasp!–”innovative.” [AllThingsD] IBM bans its employees from using Siri and Dropbo ...
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A Perfect Storm: Facebook's Troubled IPO Enters More Dangerous Waters Over Disclosure

Source: Voices | All Things Digital

Not more than a handful of business days after Facebook’s much ballyhooed IPO, and the noise is only getting worse. One bright spot is that the downward plunge of the social networking giant’s shares has stopped and ...
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10 of the most influential women in tech

Source: Tecca.com

Though many still think of Silicon Valley and the tech world in general as being a boys' club, this sentiment is becoming farther from the truth every day. Women have made the tech industry their own, from the jo ...
Full article at: Tecca.com  More like this  4 days ago, 12:50pm CDT

Yahoo! Makeover Continues With Alibaba Deal

Source: Yahoo News: Business

Over the weekend Yahoo! ( YHOO ) finalized a deal to sell half of its long-standing 40% stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. The deal is valued at $7.1 billion -- $6.3 billion in cash and $800 million ...
Full article at: Yahoo News: Business  More like this  4 days ago, 9:56am CDT

On Mark’s big day, hoodie suits him fine

Source: New York Post

When you’re worth $20 billion, you can wear whatever the hell you like. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a fashion statement that was as big as his financial statement yesterday by donning his trademark hoodie to roll out his compa ...
Full article at: New York Post  More like this  6 days ago, 12:49am CDT