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Yahoo in another shakeup as chairman and directors depart

The shakeup at Yahoo continues.

By Sharon Gaudin | 09 February, 2012 10:31

Tags: Yahoo, personnel, business issues
Yahoo ousts half its board

As part of an ongoing effort to recover from a downward spiral, Yahoo said on Tuesday that four board members, including its chairman, will step down.

By Cameron Scott | 08 February, 2012 10:04

Tags: Yahoo, search engines, restructuring, mail, Internet-based applications and services, internet, business issues
The rise of Node.js: JavaScript graduates to the server

Although it is just three years old, Node.js is gaining traction as an application development platform, letting developers extend JavaScript beyond the browser and into servers. But questions remain about JavaScript's appropriateness on servers and developers' readiness to use it.

By Paul Krill | 07 February, 2012 22:11

Tags: Yahoo, software, Microsoft, Joyent, javascript, hardware systems, Google, Data Center, Configuration / maintenance, application development
Lawsuit raises questions about email privacy at work

A recent lawsuit filed against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is drawing attention to the question of whether employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy when using personal email accounts on workplace computers.

By Jaikumar Vijayan | 03 February, 2012 23:24

Tags: Yahoo, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, security, Regulation, Gov't Legislation/Regulation, Government/Industries, government
Wall Street Beat: Tech shines as earnings come in strong

This week's tsunami of tech earnings, led by Apple's jaw-dropping quarterly report, has given market watchers something to cheer about and also points to industry shifts around tablets and cloud computing.

By Marc Ferranti | 28 January, 2012 07:43

Tags: Yahoo, sap, processors, Nokia, financial results, EMC, consumer electronics, Components, business issues, Apple, Advanced Micro Devices

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Tutorials about Yahoo

How Quora could help your business

Question-and-answer sites like Yahoo Answers may offer a quick way to ask questions and get answers, but they tend to be plagued by wisecracks, poor spelling, and generally low quality. On the other hand, a new site targeting this niche, Quora, is going to great lengths to keep quality high.

By Katherine Noyes | 21 January, 2011 12:00

Tags: Yahoo, Web-based Applications, social networks, productivity, Internet-based applications and services, internet

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Features about Yahoo

Nokia and Yahoo team up: Does anyone care?

Screw Android 2.2. Forget the new iPhone. Nokia and Yahoo have some news.

By JR Raphael | 25 May, 2010 08:27

Tags: Yahoo, Nokia, mobile phones
The Microsoft-Yahoo deal: what it means for you

Microsoft and Yahoo, I now pronounce you husband and wife.

By JR Raphael | 19 February, 2010 10:17

Tags: Yahoo, Microsoft
Google's leading, but where do other Web giants stand on IPv6?

The most popular Web sites are under increasing pressure to add support for IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to IPv4, the Internet's main communications protocol.

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 05 February, 2010 08:01

Tags: Yahoo, wikipedia, twitter, Microsoft, IPv6, Google, Facebook, ebay, comcast, American Registry for Internet Numbers
Top 10 technology stories of 2009

The Great Recession cast a shadow on all sectors of the economy in 2009. IT fared better than most, however, and the slump did not curb the dynamic nature of the industry. Acquisitions among big vendors continued to reshape the market, operating-system wars extended to mobile battlefields, microblogging became a powerful source of real-time information, and the take-up of small, 'Net-connected devices was stronger than ever. Here, in no particular order, is the IDG News Service's pick of the top 10 technology stories of 2009.

By Marc Ferranti | 09 December, 2009 12:17

Tags: Yahoo, Windows 7, twitter, steve jobs, Oracle-Sun merger, Microsoft, intel antitrust, Google Chrome OS, GFC, droid smartphone
The 10 stupidest tech company blunders

Some of the biggest high-tech deals never happened. Some of the most promising products and services never came to be. Why? Because the people and companies involved didn't realize what they were letting slip through their fingers, or they simply couldn't foresee what would happen afterward.

By Dan Tynan | 31 August, 2009 14:40

Tags: Yahoo, toshiba, sony, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple