DENMARK: WHAT A SHAME - WHAT DOES THE EU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THIS?

"UPDATED On December 1, 2008, Faroese chief medical officers announced  that pilot whale meat contains too much mercury, PCBs and DDT derivatives to be safe for human consumption." On a group of islands...

Microsoft & Yahoo still looking for that partnership.

After the mamoth un-succesful tussel that Microsoft went through when trying to buy the shaky legged search technology provider 'Yahoo',Redmond Is once again eyeing the search engine. But this time not a complete...

Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen Trailer Leaked On YouTube

Fans of Transformers got a rare treat April 29 when the trailer, set to debut on Yahoo April 30, was leaked online at YouTube.  The Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen Trailer is just over two minutes long and...

Yahoo! Shutting Down GeoCities

Remember GeoCities? Well, it will live forever as a memory, since parent company Yahoo! is shutting down the free web-hosting service. No new users can join, and existing users are being funneled toward Yahoo!'s...

AP PROPAGANDA VS FREEDOM OF THE PRESS VS CENSORSHIP

This is my comment on the increasing irrelevant AP's desperate last ditch effort to prevent it from going the way of the many bankrupt newspapers that have went before it. [See AP IS DESPARATE TO OUTLAW SEARCH ENGINE LINKING] For the last 30 years or so the AP self censored...

Searches frustrate surfers

Hitwise found that although both US and Australian internet surfers were finding it difficult to get results when surfing the internet, " Australians were having a marginally higher success rate with their searches than their US counterparts, but the failure rate was still...

Fragmentation, Filter Failure, and Startup Opportunities

Recently I’ve been very focused around content accessibility and the information overload that is occurring online. It’s clear that the natural progression of the Internet has produced a normal fragmentation of the web. More simply put, there are more and more online...

Hearst Threatens to Close or Sell San Francisco Chronicle

There have been some shake ups at Hearst this week and it is only just beginning.  Just one day after new digital advisor was hired to assist CEO Frank Bennack Jr, the company is threatening to shut down the...

GUTTED by flickr

What happens when a social networking community based on photography and art is run by anti-social people? They self destruct, driving away the real artists expressing themselves, and encouraging lowest common...

Yahoo Puts $1,000 Bounty On Employees Who Leak Info to the Press

New Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz wants to crack down on company employees who are leaking information to the press — and Bartz is ponying up the first $1,000 in a "weekly bounty" to track them down. But it's hard not to...

Yahoo Inc names Carol Bartz as new CEO

Yahoo was finding very difficult to find a successor to Jerry Yang as chief executive. But they have managed to zeroed on Carol Bartz as the new boss. But critics says she isn't exactly inspiring. Ms. Bartz is a...

Linkedin Corp. Founder Reid Hoffman Reclaims CEO Position

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, after recruiting Dan Nye for the CEO position in Feb. 2007, has reclaimed his former post. " After a two-year stint in which he helped propel dramatic growth, LinkedIn Corp. Chief Executive Dan Nye is handing back the reins to company founder...

ahoo holder urges search unit sale to Microsoft

"AP Yahoo holder urges search unit sale to MicrosoftWednesday December 10, 8:55 am ET Yahoo shareholder urges board to pursue selling search unit to Microsoft LOS ANGELES (AP) -- One of Yahoo Inc.'s largest shareholders, Ivory Investment Management LP, is urging the Internet...

Warning over internet painkillers

"UK experts have warned of the dangers of purchasing drugs online after a study showed wide availability of strong painkillers over the internet. A team at Edinburgh University found 35 websites selling...

Microsoft's Black Friday and the Success of Xbox 360

"Microsoft announced today that on Black Friday its Xbox 360 game console outsold Sony's PlayStation 3 at a 3 to 1 ratio. That record weekend of sales puts the 360 over 25 million systems sold worldwide, surpassing the sales of the original Xbox"Say what you will, but...

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