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Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson steps down; informs board he has Thyroid Cancer
In the last two weeks, Yahoo has been at the center of an ongoing controversy following reports that CEO Scott Thompson lied about having received a degree in Computer Science. Thompson, who had previously held senior positions at both eBay and PayPal, purportedly received degrees in both CS and Accounting from Stonehill College in 1979.
But a rudimentary Google search from Yahoo activist investor Dan Loeb revealed that Stonehill College didn't even offer a CS degree until 1983. And so the drama began. Read more
The Patent Mafia and What You Can Do To Break It Up
Young man, I hear you and your friends are stealing goods. But you don't even send a dress to my house. No respect! You know I've got three daughters. This is my neighborhood. You and your friends should show me some respect. You should let me wet my beak a little. I hear you and your friends cleared $600 each. Give me $200 each, for your own protection. And I'll forget the insult. You young punks have to learn to respect a man like me! Otherwise the cops will come to your house. And your family will be ruined. Read more
Yahoo CEO called to task for misrepresentation of college CS degree
Yahoo, the beleaguered company which is seemingly trying to stay relevant (and profitable) by focusing its efforts on suing Facebook for patent infringement has another problem on its hands - a Hollywood style controversy. Read more
Now Yahoo Declares Patent War On Open Source
Yahoo's decision to recapture its lost profit potential by asserting its rights under its patent portfolio has already drawn a lot of criticism in tech circles. Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has declared war on Facebook and others claiming "they own the web" by virtue of their large portfolio of patents. But now it seems they are going to claim patent rights over open source technologies as well. Read more
Yahoo's resume-padding CEO mocked via resume padding
As the Yahoo board of directors deals with its latest executive crisis - a resume-padding allegation that appears credible against new CEO Scott Thompson - blogger-turned-venture-capitalist Michael Arrington decided to poke fun at the mess by claiming Thompson's job as his own ... on LinkedIn.
Here's a picture of Arrington's doctored profile page:
Is Yahoo! The Bad Luck Schleprock Of The Internet?
In an article I wrote last week about Microsoft pulling a cute one in the buying, selling and use of AOL patents, I mentioned that Yahoo was becoming the "Bad Luck Schleprock" of the Internet. It seems that Yahoo just can't get out of its own way anymore. Read more
Instabux – What’s Really Going On Here?
As Facebook's acquisition of Instagram (clever URL, that) has been all over every media outlet on this planet, and as it's been positioned by many as a "mobile play", I suppose I should say something about this deal. First of all, traditional metrics regarding valuation have been obsolete for some time. And, thanks to inflation, a billion dollars isn't all that much money anymore. And, finally, today it's all about opportunity cost in an era of social media, making this a very good (and cheap) deal all around. Read more
Who I Hear Is Who At Hortonworks
For almost a month now there have been rumors and whispers about what is going on over at Hortonworks. The much ballyhooed Hadoop spin off from Yahoo was expected to be a leader in the Big Data gold rush. Read more
Court affirms felony conviction of Palin e-mail snoop
A federal court has rejected the appeal of a felony conviction filed by a Tennessee man who in 2008 guessed his way into a Yahoo email account owned by Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska who was then running for vice president. Read more
DMARC anti-phishing effort raises question about typo scammers
There's essentially nothing but goodness in this latest anti-phishing effort -- called DMARC -- by the likes of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Paypal and Bank of America. The idea is to increase public confidence in email received from household-name domains and others by preventing spoofed email from reaching customers at all. Read more
Yahoo puts an exclamation point on the real story
Even as Yahoo issues press statements designed to dampen "rumor and speculation" about potential new ownership arrangements, someone has been using an unusual communications channel to more candidly signal the company's intentions ... and, frankly, its desperation. Read more
Imagine the consequences of this blog post not being saved!
We've all seen reports on the zettabytes of digital data now in existence, but the really imposing challenge is how to keep that stuff (or at least the most useful stuff) safe for later reading, including the oodles of data on the Web and Internet. Read more
Will The Real Hadoop Company Please Stand Up
The Hadoop market is white hot right now. It seems everywhere we turn there is a new company throwing their hat into the Hadoop world. Is all of the attention justified? Is this a case of overhype causing overload? How can the Hadoop world possibly make room for all of these companies to survive and thrive? I guess we are going to see how this all plays out. Read more
World IPv6 Day Results: New Internet Protocol Proves It's Ready
Submitted by Scott Hogg on Wed, 06/08/11 - 10:37pm.Today was a significant day in the development of IPv6. Today is IPv6's Bar Mitzvah, Baha'i, Shinbyu ceremony, Genpuku ceremony and Quinceañera all rolled into one. It was a day where IPv6 could prove to the world that it was ready for duty as the Internet Protocol successor to IPv4. Those are pretty big shoes to fill and IPv6 has had some stumbles in the past decade. This article covers what was learned by this big Internet experiment. Read more
SpamCop disrupts millions of e-mail accounts by blocking Yahoo e-mail servers
SpamCop has decided to block all e-mail coming from Yahoo servers, even if the e-mail is legit and part of Yahoo's business cloud services. On Monday I was replying to a email from a customer and a vendor, when I received the message below.
Remote host said: 554 5.7.1 Service unavailable; Client host [98.138.91.154] blocked using bl.spamcop.net; Blocked - see http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml?98.138.91.154 [RCPT_TO] Read more
Microsoft-Yahoo search alliance bearing fruit
This week we got our first glimpse at how well the Microsoft-Yahoo search advertising alliance is performing and while the gains are small, the numbers are at least heading in the right direction. Read more
Palin e-mail snoop got prison because he's too smart?
So now we know the real reason - or at least the official reason - why the college student who snooped into Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account got sent to prison instead of the halfway house recommended by the judge who oversaw his trial and conviction.
It's primarily because he was a college student. And, as if that's not reason enough to ignore the judge and ship the young man off to the slammer, it was also determined that David Kernell - 22 at the time of his crime - is guilty of having a supportive family.
Because pop-ups are so popular online?
To say I don't have high hopes for interactive television in the near term would be an understatement. Yahoo disagrees, witness its announcement this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
From a PC World story on our site:
The company will test a pilot program for interactive broadcasts during the first half of this year, with CBS, ABC, Showtime, HSN, Ford and Mattel as partners. At a pre-CES event Wednesday, Yahoo showed how it worked: Read more
Yahoo! Please Open Source Del.icio.us So It Can Live On!
One couldn't help but shed a tear today with the news that Yahoo! as part of its latest round of layoffs was killing Del.icio.us, along with MyBlogLog and several other properties. While they may not be money makers or strategic to Yahoo! anymore, Delicious and the others still have plenty of fans out there. Rather than just killing them off, Yahoo! Read more
Why any great career move should be known as 'a Schmidt'
Chances are no one today has heard Eric Schmidt muttering under his breath, "Dang, I could have worked at Attachmate." Read more
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