Twitter’s getting into ads: The Bottom Line
Recently, news broke that Twitter is putting together an advertising platform. How useful will this be? To find out, we talk to Doug Aamoth on the Bottom Line.
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Microsoft + Yahoo: The fallout
We've been watching all day as bloggers start to pontificate about what exactly Yahoo and Microsoft's pairing means for each of the companies, shareholders and the technology industry, but what does it mean for you, the end user? We bring in one of our good buddies from ReadWriteWeb to talk about the agreement, and how Microsoft and Yahoo are still going to have a difficult time taking on Google.
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Yahoo!-Microsoft search deal: 10 year lockup
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Yahoo! and Microsoft officially announced in a press release this morning that the two companies have struck a deal aimed at improving, "the Web search experience for users and advertisers." The deal puts Bing as the official search engine of Yahoo for the next 10 years, according to the press release.
Yahoo’s redesign: Are homepages coming back?
Web 1.0 was all about the rise of portals-- so called jumping off points wherein users could be caught up to date. Web 2.0 was more about users telling each other what's going on, and less about some editor creating a homepage for users to peruse. Yahoo, the largest Web 1.0 portal to survive, is trying to mix the two together and create something more useful. Will it work, or is it destined for the bin of failure? We ask two tech journos, Mike Rose from TUAW and Jonathan Strickland from HowStuffWorks.com.
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Yahoo! kills travel site FareChase, shows signs of trimming fat
TechCrunch says the company is folding FareChase into its regular travel site, but more importantly Yahoo! is showing signs its serious about reeling in underperforming units.