Posts Tagged ‘Yahoo’

Google’s increased market share in October 08 – 71.7%

Friday, November 14, 2008 15:39 No Comments

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 same [...]

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Scour – A new Search Engine

Sunday, November 2, 2008 8:28 No Comments

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!

Friday, October 24, 2008 21:06 No Comments

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 blog

Mercent
October 22, 2008
Seattle
6
12%
Seattle Times

Dell
October 22, 2008
Round Rock, Texas
8,900

Reuters

imeem
October 22, 2008
San Francisco, CA
20
25%
TechCrunch

Mahalo
October 22, 2008
Santa Monica, CA
6
10%
TechCrunch

TicketMaster
October 22, 2008
New York, NY
300
5%
Billboard.biz

Veoh
October 21, 2008
St. Petersburg, Russia
15

Silicon [...]

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Yahoo fires the 10% of its employees!

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 22:38 No Comments

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 big economic [...]

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