It's Valentine's Day and sites around the web are celebrating. Below you'll find a collection of screenshots that we took from different sites around the web that are celebrating Valentine's Day in some way or another.
It's been a few days now since Yahoo launched their experimental live video service called Yahoo! Live. It launched with such quietness and without fanfare that many of you probably haven't even heard about it yet.
And the saga continues... yesterday we reported that Yahoo officially turned down Microsoft's offer to acquire them for $44.6 billion dollars. Yahoo said that the offer undervalued them, and so they weren't interested (typical corporate response for a first offer). Microsoft has now responded to Yahoo and the story gets more and more interesting.
It's been a little over a week since news broke that Microsoft offered to acquire Yahoo for $44.6 billion. Their offer translated out to about $31 dollars per share which many people had said was too low for a company that was trading at that price not long ago. Sure enough, Yahoo felt that the offer undervalued them and formally rejected Microsoft.
Google News just added a new "local news" section to the Google News homepage. You'll find it by going to http://news.google.com and looking towards the mid-right side of the page. All you have to do is enter your zip code and Google will pull in news from various sources for your area.
After Microsoft announced that they were hoping to acquire Yahoo, there was obviously all kinds of talk around the web. Yahoo fans expressed both pleasure and mostly dis-pleasure at the thought of Yahoo being taken over by Microsoft.
Yahoo is opening up an "all-you-can-eat" buffet and on the menu is web hosting. There's unlimited disk space, unlimited data transfer, unlimited email storage, and 1,000 email accounts available. And it's cheaper than many buffets out there at $11.95 per month! What a deal, huh?
Back in May of 2005, Yahoo launched Yahoo! Music Unlimited, an on-demand online music service where users could pay a subscription fee to stream or download unlimited amounts of music for either $8.99 or $5.99 per month.
If there was ever any question about whether or not Google liked Microsoft, we now know for certain that they don't. Google actually wrote-up a Press Release to talk about Microsoft's offer to acquire Yahoo for $44.6 billion. Here are some of the key words and phrases I picked out of the announcement that give us an idea of how they feel about Microsoft's proposal:
We'd be surprised if you haven't heard by now that Microsoft has made an offer to Yahoo to acquire them for about $44.6 billion in cash! It's all over the news (for good reason), and there are all kinds of ideas regarding this acquisition floating around the Internet. Instead of talking in length about each of them, we thought we'd sum everything up into an easy-to-read bulleted list.
The latest forming trend in digital music downloads seems to be that everyone wants to start offering DRM-free music. Both Amazon and iTunes offer a DRM-free catalog of music as well as several other sites like eMusic. People like DRM-free because it means once they download a song or album, they can play the song on multiple devices. When Amazon's service launched, it got rave reviews.
News coming from both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal tell us that Yahoo will be laying off hundreds of people, and it's going to happen soon. After taking a look at the last couple of years over at Yahoo, it's completely understandable why these layoffs are imminent and necessary. Yahoo stock has taken a nose dive down and has declined around 50 percent since the end of 2005.
While people have criticized that OpenID's have security weaknesses and may be vulnerable to phishing attacks, more and more sites are starting to use them. Case in point... Yahoo! Yahoo just announced support for OpenID which is huge. In case you're not familiar with it, OpenID is a decentralized single sign-on system meaning with one OpenID, you can sign into multiple sites.
January of 2007 can be summed up into two words: iPhone and Vista! It was a huge month for both Microsoft and Apple - Microsoft finally got Vista pushed out the door and Apple made their big announcement at Macworld that the iPhone was coming. Here's a look at those headlines:
Back in June, Google Maps got a new drag and drop routes feature which allows someone to tweak the route that Google provides them so that it's just the way they want it to be.
As 2007 comes to an end, sites like Yahoo and Google are releasing their "top of 2007" types of lists where they note the top trends and searches for the year. As you can imagine, there are a few search queries that landed on both lists like the iPhone, YouTube, and Facebook. All three were certainly "buzz" words for the year and drew huge amounts of attention.
Early this year in January, Yahoo announced that they had designed a new messenger from the ground up just for use with Windows Vista. They wanted to take advantage of all the new features specific to Vista like the display and user interface, as well as Vista's Windows Presentation Foundation.
It looks like Yahoo has spent some considerable time designing an all new homepage for their Yahoo Widgets, and I must say, it looks good! They wanted to improve the experience, and that they did. They've also launched a new version of Yahoo! Widgets (Konfabulator) version 4.5 which has new features and some fixes. You can find the upgrade for that here.
It seems like I've been getting an unusually large number of phishing emails lately, and I've began wondering whether everyone realizes how they can report phishing emails with their email provider. This article will highlight what phishing is, and why/how to properly report it.
A new version of Yahoo Messenger is launching today with all kinds of new features. Among the changes in Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 beta are a redesigned interface. With over 94 million users, it's an important communication tool for many people. The changes that they've made will make communication among the millions of users easier, and perhaps even more enjoyable.
