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Article | 21/05/2013 Yahoo returns to list of most valuable brands
Yahoo again ranks as one of the world's 100 most valuable brands.
Article | 20/05/2013 Yahoo revamps Flickr and offers a terabyte of free storage
Yahoo has made some radical changes to its Flickr photo sharing service, which now has a more photo-filled interface and comes with a free terabyte of...
Article | 20/05/2013 The good, the bad and the ugly of Tumblr under Yahoo
Yahoo has promised "not to screw up" Tumblr now that it has acquired the freewheeling blogging site. But there are still several ways Tumblr could get...
Article | 20/05/2013 Yahoo Japan says 22 million user IDs may have been stolen
Yahoo Japan, the country's largest Web portal, said up to 22 million user IDs may have been leaked during a hack that was discovered last week.
Article | 17/05/2013 At Google I/O, developer services hogged the spotlight
Forget Glass, self-driving cars or a smartwatch. Developers, not physical consumer products, were Google's darlings at the company's annual I/O confer...
Article | 17/05/2013 Yahoo calls press conference amid Tumblr acquisition rumors
Yahoo has called a mystery press event in New York City on Monday afternoon, hot on the heels of rumors that it plans to buy Tumblr for US$1 billion.
Article | 17/05/2013 At Google I/O, Glass wearers say 'trust us'
Google is facing some tough questions from Congress over the privacy concerns raised by Glass, its fledgling augmented reality system for recording an...
Article | 16/05/2013 Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr try out social networking apps for Glass
While Google promotes its Glass head-mounted display as a new way for people to receive and document information on the fly, several social networking...
Article | 16/05/2013 German online copyright law to take effect in August
A German online copyright law that will give publishers the exclusive right to the commercial use of their publications on the Internet will come into...
Article | 15/05/2013 Google to boost speed, cut data use on mobile devices
Google has shown off new features that can reduce data consumption and improve Web performance on Android-powered mobile devices, drawing partly from ...
Article | 15/05/2013 A soft-spoken Larry Page makes surprise appearance at Google I/O
Google CEO Larry Page made a surprise appearance Wednesday at the Google I/O conference, where he overcame problems with his throat to take questions ...
Article | 15/05/2013 Google brings voice-enabled search to the desktop
Just by saying "Okay Google," people will soon be able to search using voice commands on their Chrome-powered desktop and laptop computers, Google sai...
Article | 15/05/2013 Google launches subscription music service
Google is rolling out a subscription music service that will bring users unlimited access to millions of songs in return for a monthly fee.
Article | 15/05/2013 Google launches multiplayer Android gaming API
Google has introduced new APIs to help developers build better games for its Android OS.
Article | 15/05/2013 Google says it has 900 million Android activations
Google's Android OS has more than 900 million users, the company said Wednesday at its I/O event began in San Francisco.