Google Search, the world’s most used Web search engine, has fallen behind Microsoft’s Bing in terms of accuracy, Web analytics firm Experian Hitwise reported.
According to a press release from Experian Hitwise for July, Microsoft’s Bing, with 12.98 percent share (excluding the 28.05 percent for Bing-powered search), lagged Google Search, which cleared 66.05 percent share of the U.S. search engine market and reestablished the Mountain View-based company’s dominance in the …

Yahoo chief executive officer Carol Bartz, in a conference call to talk about Yahoo’s second quarter results on Tuesday, said she is not happy about its U.S. display ad performance, and attributed its surprising weakness to turnover in Yahoo’s ad display team.
 

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Bartz explained Yahoo’s revenue was on the low end of projections due to a huge turnover in the sales force in the U.S. and changes in sales structure and leadership. Chief …

Which? Computing, a prominent consumer watchdog group, has slammed Yahoo for spying on its user’s emails in order to help sell advertizing.  Sarah Kidner said their policy is a “blatant intrusion of privacy”.  Yahoo defended its service explaining that it helps block out spam and will later be used to offer advertizing the user will be interested in.
 

Yahoo accused of email snooping

A Yahoo! spokesperson explained how the scanning technology will be used: “To look for keywords …

The New York State Police computer forensics lab is analyzing a zipped file that is contained in an email, circulating mainly through Yahoo email accounts, that contains a fake traffic ticket that purports to be from the New York Department of Motor Vehicles.
 

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The fake traffic ticket contains a description of the alleged traffic offense as well as a time and date, and directs the recipient to open an attached zip file, which contains a virus.  New York State …

Jack Ma, chairman of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., said both Yahoo and Softbank Corporation will get a “very large” compensation, following negotiations for the spinoff of the AliPay unit.
 

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Ma transferred AliPay, the most used online payment service in China, to a Chinese company he controlled in August 2010, but the move wasn’t approved by Alibaba directors.  Yahoo!Inc was the biggest shareholder of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, at 3 percent, and charged that …

Yahoo and Benchmark Capital, a prominent venture capital firm in the Silicon Valley, have partnered to take over development of Hadoop, a popular data analysis software Yahoo has been developing since 2005.  A new company is to be formed and given a creative name inspired from the world of Dr. Seuss, Hortonworks, after the elephant character in Seuss’s “Horton Hears a Who!”   Twenty-five to thirty Yahoo engineers who specialize in Hadoop will be employed by Hortonworks.

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Carol Bartz, Yahoo! Inc. chief executive officer, is preparing for Yahoo’s difficult annual shareholder meeting in which she will have to answer to investors who are becoming inpatient about the website’s turnaround progress.

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The technology rich Nasdaq Composite Index has increased 20 percent since last year’s meeting but Yahoo’s shares have gone up just 2.7 percent.  Bartz became the Yahoo CEO in January 2009, and since then, the increase in the …

SlideShare, “the world’s largest community for sharing presentations”, has been partners with professional networking website LinkedIn since 2008 when it introduced an application on LinkedIn that let members share documents and slides with their network, but now it has deepened its relationship with LinkedIn, which will make it easier for LinkedIn’s 100 million plus members to share professional content.

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All of SlideShare’s documents, …

Yahoo on Thursday introduced a new service for its search engine called AppSearch and also announced new search tools for Android and iPhone devices call AppSpot. Both AppSearch and AppSpot help users find applications for their iPhone and Android devices, and Yahoo said it will expand their functionality in the future.

Shashi Seth, explaining why Yahoo has introduced the new features, said it can do better job than is provided by the search tools for the Apple App Store and Android Market. …

Yahoo Mail and Hotmail have become the newest targets of a spear phishing attack which aims to steal the login names and passwords of members in order to stage later attacks.

Trend Micro reported on Friday that the phishing attacks on Yahoo Mail and Hotmail were carried out separately from initial attacks on Gmail.  Google revealed on Wednesday that hundreds of Gmail accounts were compromised in attacks that originated from servers in China, although Chinese officials said they are not …