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Yahoo Acquires Start-Up SkyPhrase
Yahoo has announced that they have acquired natural language processing company SkyPhrase.  The acquisition appears to include not just include the technology but also the talent, as Yahoo has revealed in a blog post that it is “exited to welcome” the team of four from SkyPhrase. The SkyPhrase team have built... Read more
Yahoo Recycles Usernames
From Monday August 26, Yahoo will begin notifying those who requested a particular user ID through the company’s newly expanded and ever increasing, pool of usernames, if their request has been granted. If you missed it the first time around, earlier this summer Yahoo made an announcement that it... Read more
Yahoo Weather Wows on Android
There is no lack of weather apps – and web sites – but there is much to be said about weather apps looking good and working excellently. Of the entities who know about weather and dishing up information to users, Yahoo is perhaps one of the oldest and most... Read more
Does Tumblr Have A Porn Problem Or Not?
So the Interweb is all abuzz on a Monday, thanks to the news about Yahoo buying out microblogging site Tumblr. Not everyone is on Tumblr, for sure, but the site has had a very strong following, and one would normally say that it is a feat for Yahoo to... Read more
Yahoo Working From Home Ban Hopes to Boost Morale
About two weeks ago, Yahoo rocked its employees’ world by announcing that working from home is no longer an option. Naturally, this move raised a lot of eyebrows – and probably blood pressures as well. Yahoo, not unlike many other companies, has allowed its employees to work from home,... Read more
Yahoo Shuts Down More of its Properties
On Friday, March 1st, Yahoo announced that it will continue the process of cleaning out its underused properties, after recently removing some of the Yahoo Messenger features at last year’s end. Yahoo’s new CEO, Marissa Mayer is tidying up the major tech company to aim its focus toward the... Read more