blogs.computerworld.com - 10/25/2009
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, once the Internet's third most visited domain , will be shutting down on Oct. 26, taking with it thousands of user home pages and decades of data. All that information will be history.... Fortunately, some historians are making sure it's not lost to the annals of time. Founded in 1994 as ...
techspot.com - 10/21/2009
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techspot.com —
Yahoo joined the ranks of other major tech
companies that turned a profit in the recent quarter...
after reporting better-than-expected earnings. The search company posted a net income of $186 million or $.13 per share, which is up 244% from the year-ago quarter's $54 million, and excluding some ...
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Yahoo profits up 244%, revenue down 12%
maximumpc.com - 28 days ago
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maximumpc.com —
In a filing with the SEC, Yahoo said
more time is needed to complete the search and...
advertising deal with Microsoft. The two sides had agreed in late July to have everything squared away by October 27, but hammering out the details of a long term deal is taking longer than expected. "The ...
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Microsoft and Yahoo Need a Bit More Time to Negotiate a Deal
maximumpc.com - 10/20/2009
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maximumpc.com —
Going strictly by the numbers, those who are
rocking their email through Yahoo have a lower credit...
score than, say, Gmail users. In fact, according to Credit Karma, an online credit checking service, Yahoo email users tend to have the worst credit of all. Credit Karma combed through its ...
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What Does Your Email Provider Say About Your Credit Score?
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We are getting old: GeoCities closing down.
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... time. Founded in 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet, what is now Yahoo GeoCities was one of the first services to offer an easy way for early Internet surfers to publish their own Web pages. Whereas most hosting options of the 1990s were expensive, thus limiting their use to more entrepreneurial pursuits, GeoCities' free hosting space became the home for thousands of sites built around thematically oriented "neighborhoods": conservation, fashion, military, sports, finance, travel, and mo http://blogs.computerworld.com/14969..._on_october_26
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... on October 26, 2009 Monday Fudzilla reports Intel faces antitrust probe in U.S. and Nokia's patent claim could cost Apple $1 billion and Apple will not do a netbook DigiTimes reports Asus aims to ship more than 16 million notebooks and netbooks combined in 2010 What comes after hard drives ? Ars Technica on how to give the FCC a piece of your mind , online and court case shows limits of anonymous blogging Yahoo GeoCities closes on Oct. 26 Google's Sergey Brin aids charity that aided him Bj rn3D's NZXT ...
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