Tag Archives: Yahoo
Yahoo! – The “Bus Stop Derby” idea
Posted on 26. Nov, 2010 by Nikos.
If you live in San Francisco, you must have noticed the new Yahoo! interactive ads in few bus stops around the city. (Currently at 20 high-traffic bus stops) At each one of these bus stops there is one 72-inch touch LCD screen that allows the commuters to play games and compete other neighborhoods. Players earn [...]
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Yahoo Brands, Logos and Services
Posted on 04. Oct, 2009 by Nikos.
I guess that most of you have noticed or read about the change in Flickr‘s logo.. Yahoo recently added “from Yahoo!” next to Flickr logo in order to enhance its brand through this very successful image and video hosting service. What yahoo did is very reasonable and it might help the company’s brand. Apparently this [...]
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Google’s increased market share in October 08 – 71.7%
Posted on 14. Nov, 2008 by Nikos.
Google continued to increase its U.S. search share dominance in October, widening its lead over Yahoo and Microsoft. In October, Google’s share of Web searches by people in the U.S. rose to 71.7 percent, up from 71.2 percent in September and 64.5 percent in October of 2007, according to market research company Hitwise. At the [...]
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Scour – A new Search Engine
Posted on 02. Nov, 2008 by Nikos.
Scour is a new search engine that combines the results of the most famous search engines: Google, MSN and Yahoo. You can also rate the results as you do in Pandora. By this, Scour is getting better!
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Layoffs in US tech companies!
Posted on 24. Oct, 2008 by Nikos.
The unemployment issue is getting bigger and serious! These are some of the Tech companies that fire 19,556 employees. Total Layoffs: 36 Total Employees: 19,556 Company Date Location # % Source Haute Secure October 23, 2008 Seattle 3 50% TechCrunch XeroxCorp October 23, 2008 world-wide 3,000 5% WSJ Cake Financial October 23, 2008 30% internal [...]
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Yahoo fires the 10% of its employees!
Posted on 21. Oct, 2008 by Nikos.
This morning, all the employees of Yahoo had a surprise email from their boss. Jerry Yang, CEO amd co-founder of Yahoo, sent an email to all the Yahoo’s employees worldwide. In the email Jerry Yang explained the reasons of his decision According to his words, Yahoo has to eliminate its costs by $400 millions! The [...]
