With all the attention focused on sites like Facebook and Google's properties, it's sometimes easy to forget how many people visit Yahoo on a typical day. The site has over 700 million users and gets a massive amount of page views each day. As the company struggles to figure out what its future focus should be, one thing they've prioritized highly is content.
Every day, Yahoo displays about 13 million different news story combination on its homepage. Those stories are personalized based on demographic data and reading behavior, and the company keeps track of what kind of stories do well with which groups of people. Full story...
Just a month after announcing its plans to devour hit app Instagram to the tune of $1 billion, Facebook has released its very own photo sharing app.
There’s a lot of money in poor people.
The ownCloud project is adding features fast and furiously.
Axis, Yahoo's "new kind of browser" that launched yesterday, is an attempt to do something noble and important.
Today's theme is real artists ship. Everyone wants their tech to be fun.
Today the X Prize Foundation announced a $2.
It is time for another look at enterprise IT from our friends Chief and Chuck.
If your boss asked you to identify all of the various SaaS-based providers that are being used across your corporate network, how long would it take you to put together a report? This isn't academic: As more of your end-users sign up for these cloud-based services, it becomes increasingly harder to maintain the appropriate enterprise security policies as the number and kinds of files stored there increases.
Social scientists are increasingly looking at online friendships and trying to figure out if they carry the same emotional baggage that real-world friendships do.
PayPal co-founder and Facebook pre-IPO stockholder Peter Thiel
Facebook's tainted public offering, which has attracted the attention of federal securities investigators, has grown a bit darker with the filing of a class-action lawsuit.