Tag: "Yahoo"
Yahoo Confirms 500 Million Accounts Compromised In Major Hack
Yahoo has just confirmed that their service has suffered a major hack – back in 2014, however now they have decided to inform users. Yahoo have gone on to say their believe this is a state-sponsored hack, and if found to be true can have real implications among international diplomatic relations. According to Yahoo, the […]
Read More | ShareVerizon to purchase Yahoo for $4.8 Billion USD
Verizon – a large US telecommunications provider has agreed to acquire the main aspects of the Yahoo business for $4.8 Billion USD. Last year Verizon purchased AOL, which will now have key business units merged with Yahoo – while the websites will still operate independently. This seems like a good price for Verizon as Yahoo […]
Read More | ShareYahoo Profit Up After 1 Year with Marissa Mayer At The Helm
Yahoo have just released their Q2 2013 Financial Results, 1 year after Marissa Mayer was appointed as the company’s CEO. The reaction from investors and commentators has been mixed but there are a couple key points to take away from this update: Net Profit up 46% from a year ago to $US331 Revenue fell 1% to $US1.07 […]
Read More | ShareYahoo To Purchase Tumblr For $1.1 Billion USD
There are several reports coming out of the US that the Yahoo board has approved a deal to purchase Tumblr for $1.1 Billion USD. Update: This has now been confirmed by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer via her own Tumblr blog (how nice:) This is a big move on Yahoo’s part, to purchase a stand alone […]
Read More | ShareYahoo Implements Google’s Rel = Author
As I was running a few searches on Google yesterday, I noticed this interesting change for Yahoo News. It seems they have implemented Google’s Rel = Author markup on some of their news properties in the United States. Here is a pic of the search results: This is an interesting move by Yahoo, but not […]
Read More | ShareMarissa Mayer is the new Yahoo CEO
Can this be right? One of Google’s top executives poached by Yahoo? It’s happened, Marissa Mayer – the former VP of Maps and Local at Google is now CEO of Yahoo Inc. This is obviously going to be a very challenging position for Marissa, no doubt one of the main reasons why she has taken this […]
Read More | ShareYahoo Adds Google+1 Button to News
We saw recently Google rolled out a new +1 button for their social network, Google+. Many webmasters around the world have added this button as it can now impact search results for Google web search users, especially people who run Google searches logged in to their Google account. In an interesting move, Yahoo Australia and […]
Read More | ShareGoogle – 94% of Australian Web Searches
I was having a look over at Statcounter.com recently and specifically their public reporting tool gs.statcounter.com. This tool lets you see search engine, browser, mobile search stats etc for almost every country in the world. What has always been interesting is seeing the strength of the Google brand in Australia and how basically everyone uses […]
Read More | ShareWeb Directories are Finished!
In the old days of SEO, getting links from Web Directories was standard practice for building incoming links to your website. Often Google and other search engines would rank these links and pass the pagerank through to your website, thus increasing your domain authority and ranking. But Google has cracked down on sites offering Paid […]
Read More | ShareYahoo Co-Founder Jerry Yang Resigns
Yahoo has announced that Jerry Yang, one of the origional Co-Founders of Yahoo over 17 years ago has resigned from Yahoo’s board of directors. Yahoo recently appointed a new CEO, Scott Thompson who was previously President of Paypal. Jerry Yang co-founded Yahoo in 1994 with Stanford friend David Filo. According to Alexa.com Yahoo is the […]
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