I talked with Sol Tzvi, CEO of internet startup Genieo Innovation Ltd. in Israel, shortly after downloading the Genieo home page program and writing an article about it last week. Following this short article are some notes I made after the interview.

During my talk with Tzvi, I focused for a few minutes on monetization because I am not clear about how this works in the world of the internet or at least, how it works for Genieo, and this led to our next topic, personalization and the trend of …

Yahoo! shares fell 51 cents after it was reported that Alibaba’s CEO, David Wei and COO Eli Lee have resigned from the company because it was determined that sellers of merchandise on the web site were committing fraud.  Yahoo has a 40% stake in the online auction house, the biggest share of any stakeholder.

An internal investigation determined that fraud was taking place by 2,300 sellers on the website, “sometimes with the help of the Alibaba.com sales staff”.
Jonathon Wu, who is …

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United States President Barack Obama met with the leaders of leading US companies in the technology and innovation sector in a private event yesterday night in San Francisco to discuss his plans to revitalize the recovering US economy.
The White House has not revealed the names of the business leaders who attended the event, but various news reports claim that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Eric Schmidt were at the private dinner.
According to …

“‘If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” seems to be the strategy being employed by Yahoo! Inc., once the biggest brands in the World Wide Web, which has been somewhat sidelined as other internet stars like Google and Facebook took center stage.

After years of trying to develop functionality that could compete with other social networking websites, Yahoo has finally thrown in the towel, or rather thrown up its hands in frustration with its installation of tools such a Facebook’s …

Yahoo! Inc. announced it will start showing job listings from Monster Worldwide, Inc. on its websites in Latin America.  Monster is a job search website where prospective employees can look for new jobs for free and upload their resume.  Employers must pay a fee to post their jobs and look at posted resumes.

Under terms of the agreement between Yahoo and Monster Worldwide, Inc., Monster will provide Yahoo with job posting and career information for Latin America.  Job searchers in …

Yahoo! Inc. this week launched a new customizable digital news stand, initially for tablets only, that allows consumers to retrieve news content based on time of day, interests, and location. Livestand from Yahoo! will get content from its massive digital library of news, finance, sports, Flickr, omg!, and also the Yahoo! Contributor Network.

During the first half of this year Yahoo! will launch Livestand as an application for the iPad and Android, and also as a scalable platform that can be …

Yahoo is expected to announce at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona Spain later this month that it is working towards increasing its presence on mobile devices by developing programs that will help mobile applications provide content like news, which will be based on the person’s interest.

People familiar with the issue say the initiative will strengthen mobile apps developed by Yahoo and other third party developers.  The application will be developed from several features …

Yahoo photo sharing website Flickr made a huge blunder according to member Mirco Wilhelm, a photographer based in Zurich.  Wilhelm said that Flickr accidentally deleted his account, and all of his 4,000 photos he has posted while a member the last five years. Luckily Wilhelm had saved his original files in other locations but the links from all over the web that were pointing to his pictures will now bring up only dead space. The official Flickr blog was one of the websites that used …

Microsoft has revealed that a Yahoo Mail IMAP server glitch is causing the now-famous Windows Phone 7 (WP7) ‘phantom data’ problem, various reports confirm.
In January, the Redmond, Washington-based company revealed that the glitch which caused WP7 devices to eat up data allotments was caused by an unnamed third-party.

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According to consumer complaints, WP7 users were shocked that their devices seemed to consume significantly higher than usual data over …

Flickr, Yahoo’s photo sharing website, is dying a slow death, with unique visits declining 16% year-on-year, and a former Flickr engineer is blaming Yahoo for its impending demise.

While a New York Times article attributes Flickr drop off to Facebook’s emerging dominance in the photo sharing market for non-photographers, the former Flickr engineer Karen Elliot-McCrea explains there are other causes. McCrea, responding to a question on Quora about “Why Did Flickr Miss Out On The …