News tagged with yang
Yahoo! shuts down GeoCities
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Yahoo! on Monday closed GeoCities, a free Web hosting service that it purchased for over three billion dollars at the height of the dot-com boom.
Icahn resigns from Yahoo's board on friendly terms
Oct 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Activist investor Carl Icahn has decided his work is done at Yahoo Inc. after muscling his way on to the slumping Internet company's board nearly 15 months ago.
Yahoo director to step down at end of year
Sep 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. director Maggie Wilderotter plans to step down from the slumping Internet company's board at the end of this year. The resignation will leave Yahoo with 11 directors.
Earning preview: Microsoft looms over Yahoo 2Q
Jul 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc. is scheduled to report its second-quarter results after the stock market closes Tuesday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period.
Yahoo rallies on renewed hopes for Microsoft deal
Jul 17, 2009 |
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Yahoo Inc. shares rose 4 percent Friday amid speculation it will team up with Microsoft Corp. in an online search advertising partnership aimed at mounting a more serious challenge to Google Inc.
Yahoo CEO promises shareholders to get 'mojo back'
Jun 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz echoed the turnaround promises of her predecessors as she presided over the first shareholder meeting since her hiring, yet she left little doubt the slumping Internet company's ...
Yahoo's Yang gets $1 in rocky final year as CEO
Apr 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. limited co-founder Jerry Yang's 2008 compensation package to his customary $1 salary during his final year as chief executive, a tumultuous reign that unraveled after he rebuffed Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 ...
Departure of chip-design legend Bob Pease prompts outpouring in Silicon Valley
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Bob Pease is a genuine Silicon Valley rock star who I never would have heard of had he not lost his job, or left his job. It's not entirely clear which.
Microsoft, Yahoo! in search, ad talks
Apr 10, 2009 |
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Microsoft and Yahoo! have held "early discussions" about possible Internet search and advertising partnerships, a leading Silicon Valley technology website reported on Friday.
Ballmer reiterates interest in Yahoo talks
Mar 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer is still signaling an interest in a deal to buy part of Yahoo Inc.
A year after Microsoft buyout offer made, Yahoo struggles to define itself
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Soon after he was named chief executive of Yahoo, Jerry Yang turned to Steve Jobs for advice.
We've got your number: Consumers choose products with more technical specs
Dec 15, 2008 |
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Many products have numbers attached: megapixels for cameras, wattage ratings for stereos, cotton counts for sheets. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research shows that consumers are heavily influenced by quantitative specif ...
Computational Biochemist Uncovers Molecular Clue to Evolution
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Sep 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A Florida State University researcher who uses high-powered computers to map the workings of proteins has uncovered a mechanism that gives scientists a better understanding of how evolution ...
Raw deal for foreign brides in Taiwan: study
Jul 17, 2008 |
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More than a quarter of a million women have been sold as wives and baby-makers in South East Asia, but they are getting a raw deal in health care and social inclusion.
Coal-generated CO2 captured in Australia -- a first
Jul 09, 2008 |
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In a first for Australia, carbon dioxide (CO2) has been captured from power station flue gases in a post-combustion-capture (PCC) pilot plant at Loy Yang Power Station in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley.
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