A rare outage has hit Yahoo Mail, with service down for a subset of users.
Yahoo has acknowledged the outage. Here’s the statement, as posted at The Next Web:
“Yahoo mail is currently inaccessible to some users. We are working to correct the issue and restore all functionality immediately. We know that this may have caused some
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It’s YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley to the rescue, snapping up social bookmarking website Delicious.com from Yahoo and underwriting its future. The site had been marked for “sunsetting” by Yahoo per a leaked slide last December, prompting much indignation from Delicious buffs. Yahoo reacted by releasing a FAQ denying the …
Microsoft has hit a milestone in its slow search ascent, with Bing powering 30 percent of searches in the United States.
That’s only if you include both Bing and Yahoo, which is powered by Microsoft’s search engine. Separately, Bing is still in third place with 14.32 percent of the market in March, according to Hitwise. Yahoo has …
Yahoo is launching “Search Direct,” and if you know what “Google Instant” does, you’ll understand the two concepts instantly. Very similar to the Google service, Yahoo’s Search Direct will return an instant, real-time answer to a search query before you can even hit “Enter.”
Yahoo is reportedly in talks to acquire Flixster, the social movie site that has grown increasingly popular since it acquired Rotten Tomatoes, a movie review aggregator that had been previously acquired by videogame-centric IGN Entertainment, which itself had been acquired by Fox Interactive Media back when . . . ah, to heck with it. …
When the going gets rough, the rough get customized. Or, at least, that’s what Yahoo! is hoping; the onetime internet giant is about to announce a publishing platform for apps that will allow users to receive personalized content on mobile devices, according to the New York Times.
Anonymous sources from the project, apparently named …
“What do you want to eat?”
It’s one of the most common questions we ask every day. But while the foodie media answers this on television, on the web and in blogs, the ever-growing world of social media has yet to tap in to foodie market.
Enter Foodily, a sleek and comprehensive recipe and ingredient search engine with impressive …
Sports fans have one more place to rant and rave about their favorite teams online. Last night, Yahoo! launched The Post Game, an online sports magazine that hopes to provide further analysis (and argue) about your favorite pastimes. Magazine length and style article’s like “Tom Brady’s Guru,” seem to be what this new outlet hopes its …
While Google TV had been getting a lot of attention for television networks refusing to allow their content to be used, Yahoo has been quietly working on something it calls a “broadcast interactivity program” that may be about to get Mickey Mouse’s seal of approval.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Disney is in talks to sign …
Last night, it seemed as if social bookmarking site Delicious was to be shuttered by Yahoo, and the blogs lit up with the usual pomp and circumstance – but it wasn’t true. At least, not exactly. After a steep round of layoffs, Yahoo is looking to drop Delicious, but will cut it loose to stand alone instead, a stay of execution for …
AOL Inc. is strongly considering dividing the company, a move that could ultimately lead to a merger with Yahoo, sources told Reuters.
(More on Techland: AOL’s Project Phoenix: E-mail Is Innovative Again)
Talks of a breakup come after years of complicated and somewhat disappointing strategies that came to a head since in 2009 when …
It might just be personal curiosity or a necessary part of a business venture, but at one time or another we’ve all wondered who is searching for what terms and when they are doing it. Most search engines have this information, and now Yahoo! is showing what we look for online by revealing the data in their latest project,
