Community season 6 picks up exactly where the show left off, dropping us into a lovably dysfunctional environment where nothing ever works as promised with hilarious results. But who could have predicted that Yahoo Screen (the show's new video streaming host) would be just as dysfunctional and nowhere near as lovable? To put it bluntly, Yahoo Screen is terrible. Every time I've loaded...
Alibaba Group is about to IPO in the U.S., but what is Alibaba? We break it down in this fun and easy to understand guide.
When we think about the cloud—that place all of our data is increasingly being stored—it's easy to imagine that moving everything online should be good for the environment, but that's not always the case. A new report from Greenpeace reveals that while a number of leading companies are doing their best not to create a sustainable environment others, namely Twitter and Amazon, are...
YouTube, currently ranked as the number three site on the Internet only behind Facebook Google.com according to Alexa, might by met with some major competition in the next few months. According to Re/Code, Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer wants the site to have a much larger video presence, and it's willing to go right after some of YouTube's biggest stars and networks. Sources speaking with...
The Yahoo offer to purchase Tumblr has been accepted and the blogging service is formally joining the former search giant. Rumors began spreading just last week, and although a $1.1 billion purchase price was approved by the Yahoo board of directors yesterday, there was no guarantee that Tumblr would accept it. However, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's dream has become a reality, and the deal...
Yahoo announced on Wednesday night that it has struck a deal with Broadway Video to bring exclusive Saturday Night Live content to the Internet portal. The wording is a bit tricky in the press release and the official blog post on the matter, but it still breaks down as Yahoo will have a lot of new content coming its way this Sept. Under the new deal, Yahoo will have exclusive rights...
If you didn’t know Nick D’Aloisio, he might seem like any other teen — he goes to school, has cool hair and contends with protective, yet proud parents. But he has become something of a legend lately, a bona fide geek idol for every youngster with digital dreams. The young Brit runs with celebrities. He appears all over television and the Internet. And he gets tech luminaries and...
Yahoo has once again announced the closure of a slew of services as it continues to try to focus on its core business. As of April 1, Yahoo will be cutting support to another seven services as it attempts “to hone in on our core products and experiences.” A few of the services heading to the chopping block aren’t that well known, but a couple of them are surprises. Here is the complete...
The media has been in love with Marissa Mayer ever since the former Googler took the reins as Yahoo CEO last summer. Her every move has been well-covered — whether it’s a redesign of the office environment or the homepage. But the honeymoon period might be over now, as she sits in the crosshairs of gobsmacked pundits who can’t believe her audacity in rescinding telecommuting privileges...
Marissa Mayer doesn't fool around. In addition to helming the big picture guidance of Yahoo as its new CEO, the former Googler also dives into the nitty grittier aspects of management. Her new policies run the gamut, from offering free meals and bestowing free iPhones, to demanding longer working hours and a sped-up pace of product development cycles. Now, according to a source cited...