Свежие новости и отзывы о Yahoo

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer downplayed the threat posed by activist investors for more than a year, dismissing the danger as a noisy distraction and setting the stage for a showdown that could now cost Mayer her job. The fight between Mayer and activist investor Starboard Value took a dramatic turn on Thursday when Starboard publicly […]... →

(By Vishal Sridhar and Rishika Sadam, Reuters) – Microsoft Corp executives are in talks with equity firms considering bids for Yahoo Inc! saying that Microsoft might be willing to offer “significant financing” for their efforts, tech news site Recode reported on Thursday. However, Microsoft has not made commitments so far to investors, and any discussions […]... →

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Are you ready for a big fight over Yahoo’s control? Activist investor Starboard Value LP is really unhappy about Yahoo’s current state and wants everyone to know about it. In an open letter to shareholders, the activist hedge fund is saying that many things are broken at Yahoo right now and the investment firm could fix everything by taking over the company’s entire board. Read More... →

Just six weeks ago, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer appeared to have emerged at least temporarily victorious in her battle to steer the future of her hapless company. Whatever respite she might have won is proving to be short-lived. Yesterday, activist hedge fund Starboard announced that it was launching a proxy fight to replace all members of […]... →

Yahoo is making some changes to its daily fantasy sports offering in an effort to make contests “more transparent and fun for all users.” Starting today, individual players will be limited to up to 10 entries per contest, the use of scripting tools to manipulate entries will be prohibited, and veteran players will be clearly […]... →

Yahoo today announced its Q1 2016 progress report, highlighting the closure of several products and regional sites. As shared in its last earnings call, the company wants to focus on just seven core consumer products: Mail, Search, Tumblr, News, Sports, Finance, and Lifestyle. First off, the company is shutting down its Yahoo Games site (first […]... →

Yahoo today announced an update that will allow people to sign up to use its services and make new Yahoo accounts — but with any email address. No longer will you need to create a Yahoo email address if you want to use, say, Yahoo Fantasy Sports. Yahoo senior product manager Assaf Kremer makes a […]... →

Posted by dohertyjf[Estimated read time: 7 minutes] As a startup founder myself, it feels weird to talk about startups through the lens of backlinks. After all, there are so many other things to worry about — how’s my cash flow? Are my employees getting paid? How does the deal flow look? Are we going to hit our targets for this month/quarter? Why is the website/app so slow? Did that vendor pay us that huge amount they owe? What if I told you that I’ve seen (and helped) companies land funding off the back of... →

Posted by MrADThomsonWhile the digital marketing agency I work for, Three Deep, doesn’t get a lot of business through local searches, people do have to find their way to our office from time to time. After recently moving our office across downtown St. Paul, we took the opportunity to clean up our messy local SEO footprint. Having an up-to-date local footprint may help us rank for general terms. Most importantly, it will provide accurate results and directions to those searching for us by name.In this artic... →

It’s hard to find a company as iconic as Yahoo is in tech. Not surprisingly, Yahoo’s been one of the most closely watched tech companies over the past two decades. But Yahoo CFO Ken Goldman, who’s been in the position for the last four years, doesn’t seem too excited about it. Rather, he’s flabbergasted by the staggering amount […]... →

Starboard, the activist hedge fund leading an investor revolt against Yahoo's management team, will push for control of the company's board in talks scheduled for next week, according to people familiar with the matter.... →

Слухи привели к разговорам о расколе в руководстве компании, однако в самом Yahoo данные о расколе стараются опровергнуть... →

(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc is exploring the sale of $1 billion to $3 billion of patents, property and other “non-core assets,” its chief financial officer said on Thursday. Yahoo CFO Ken Goldman told the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference that a committee created to explore alternatives to the company’s plan to spin off […]... →

Cloud file syncing and sharing company Box today is announcing that it will formally show its support for Apple in the ongoing Apple-FBI encryption battle by filing an amicus curae brief in Apple’s defense. A Box spokesperson told VentureBeat that the company would file the brief later today alongside Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. “The […]... →

Венчурный фонд GVA Vestor.In инвестировал в американский сервис по анализу правовой информации FiscalNote. Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде. Объём раунда С составил $10 млн. Всего в сделке участвовало двенадцать инвесторов, включая сооснователя Yahoo! Джерри Янга, предпринимателя и бизнес-ангела Марка Кубана, а также венчурные фонды SF Capital Group, Visionnaire Ventures и др. Средства пойдут на дальнейшее развитие сервиса.   FiscalNote через открытые источники находит федеральные и локальные законодательно-... →

ANALYSIS: When it comes to acquisitions, Yahoo and has a long and illustrious record of overpaying for companies and then running them into the ground. Which brings us to Tumblr. Yahoo paid $1.1 billion for the company in 2013. Now Yahoo has revealed it may write down the remaining goodwill on that deal, meaning it believes […]... →

Yahoo has launched a new section on its network dedicated to covering professional esports games. The company bhopes that it will eventually become the “premiere destination for all things” in the gaming world, providing not only original and syndicated content, but also a bounty of video interviews and livestream of matches. “I’m pumped about it,” […]... →

(Reuters) – Yahoo said it may have to write down the goodwill value of Tumblr, more than two years after the web pioneer spent $1.1 billion to buy the microblogging site. Yahoo said earlier in the month it took a $230 million impairment charge related to Tumblr and was considering strategic alternatives for its core internet […]... →

Yahoo открыла исходный код библиотеки глубокого обучения CaffeOnSpark. Он опубликован на GitHub под лицензией Apache. Библиотека CaffeOnSpark была создана в прошлом году. В Spark есть библиотека машинного обучения Mlib, однако она не поддерживает выполнение задач глубокого обучения. Заполнить этот пробел был призван новый инструментарий. «Вам не нужно настраивать отдельные кластеры для Deep Learning. Вы можете запускать глубокое обучение там, где ваши данные находятся сейчас. Вам не нужно копировать данные... →