As if Yahoo hasn’t suffered enough flack lately, from job cuts to extreme streamlining, they’ve now been linked to the bad news in  theVeteran Affairs Department’s monthly report to Congress this month.  In the report, doctors had been violating patient security rights by listing personal information on one of Yahoo’s applications, Yahoo Calendar.
Reportedly, doctors were storing 878 patients’ medical information on the application, such as types of surgery, full names, dates of …

Twitter has become one of the most popular social-networking websites in the world, and businesses are now learning how to grow using the site.  Every day, new hints and tips are found and released that helps to further the experience of consumers and businesses alike. There are a few that have been trending up lately as well, such as “Tweetimonials.”
One tip many businesses are using to capture attention on Twitter is a custom background, just like any other web page.  This way, a …

Twitter is now not just a social networking site; it’s a political networking site, as well.  There is one example of a mayor of a city going above and beyond the call of duty during the recent snowstorms that have hit the Northeast.  During the “snowpocalypse,” how the snowstorm has been termed on Twitter, Newark, NJ Mayor Cory Booker has become “…a superhero with a shovel,” according to one of his million-plus followers.
The city has about 280,000 residents and yet Booker was …

Carol Bartz, President and CEO of Yahoo, had every intention of streamlining and focusing on increasing Yahoo’s operating margins, and she’s been very successful at the streamlining venture.  Bartz has effectively lopped off approximately $4.8 billion worth of mergers and acquisition work from Yahoo’s lifetime.
Even though most of that comes from the amount paid for Geocities, approximately $3.6 billion, she’s also totally massacred $1.2 billion worth of other M&A.  Some of the …

Research and development of intellectual property (IP) has become more global.  Yahoo India has garnered a large proportion of Yahoo’s IP development, about 30%.  A couple of years back, Yahoo India had only 12% of this development.
Shouvic Mukerjee, CEO and VP of Yahoo India Research and Development, has indicated that they don’t just affect the bottom line anymore, they now make a huge impact. Their domain experience is growing rapidly, because they are now handling complete end-to-end …

Twitter grew to 106 million users in 2010, and has, in a way, become the new “water cooler,” where people share the latest news and gossip. It’s become all the rage in 2010, from Justin Bieber, occupying about 3% of the site’s significant resources at any given time, to TV series and reality TV, where the addition of live commentary to various shows has become a staple.
Twitter has essentially replaced the water cooler chat, albeit in a more immediate, and bigger, form.
Back in 2009, …

The new “Yahoo Local” is an initiative by Yahoo to simplify the use of their local pages.  The program has been released in select areas but there are still a few minor bugs that need to be worked out.  Yahoo has been hiring local editors over the past year that will help to smooth out the manageable problems.
The new content, which in the past was dominated with photo-heavy things like maps, business reviews and nearby events, is now more “user friendly” in that they are now …

Twitter is, first and foremost, a social networking site.  However, in 2010 we have seen more and more people doing things on Twitter that could only be accomplished by the phone, in person or by e-mail.
Businesses are using Twitter as, not just as a conference tool, but a tool to find an employee, as well as a tool to track that employee.  Businesses are also using the medium for advertising.  Twitter launched promoted tweets, promoted trends, analytics and suggested users this year, all …

Professor Derek Ruths of the research lab at the McGill University School of Computer Science put together a study to see what people who use Twitter want the most for Christmas. In a fun endeavor called the Xmas Tweet Project, the researchers combed through various holiday-themed Twitter messages, and what they found was that all many people want for the holidays is some companionship, especially from one particular pop star.
The most common Christmas wish, found after pouring over 177,000 …

Mobile internet access has become simpler in India in conjunction with Yahoo India’s partnership with MTS.  The new partners announced that they have joined forces to offer MBlaze, a high speed mobile broadband service. Users will have access through an MTS and  Yahoo co-branded page to their account information and internet content such as Yahoo News, Mail, mobile search and live TV.
This co-branded page is an attempt by the two companies to offer convenience to MBlaze customers, to have a …