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Yahoo Launches New Women’s Site

On Monday, Yahoo Inc. announced that it launched a new website geared for women. The new website, called, Shine, will cover such topics as parenting, love, relationships, healthy living, home life, sex, money and career, entertainment, food, fashion, beauty and even astrology. Its target audience is a woman who is between 25 and 54 years of age, a demographic that yahoo’s advertisers may have complained about not reaching with targeted advertising. Women in that age group are considered key decision makers when it comes to purchasing goods and services in the home. Shine will have to compete with other already … Continue reading →

Computing Week in Review: February 11th Through February 17th

The colder weather brings more indoor activities, such as playing video games. If you haven’t purchased your system yet, you might want to read up on failure rates. or, just take advantage of games that are online. You can find out all about these things and more in this past week’s Computing Blogs. February 11th Computing Week in Review: February 4th Through February 10th Have you been following along with the Microsoft bid for Yahoo? There should be some more news about this issue later today. Meanwhile, catch up by reading last week’s articles. They cover the bid plus other … Continue reading →

Yahoo Buys Video Service, Layoffs and More

Despite the issues surrounding a possible hostile takeover by Microsoft, the slumping Yahoo is actually spending money, to the tune of $160 million. Yesterday, the search engine giant completed a transaction to acquire the online video service, Maven Networks, Inc. Microsoft’s bid of more than $40 million, or $31 per share, was rejected by Yahoo, although now it seems that Yahoo may actually agree to the takeover, provided that Microsoft’s price is right. An asset manager of Legg Mason, Yahoo’s biggest shareholder, wrote a letter to investors saying that Microsoft would have to be closer to $40 a share to … Continue reading →

BlackBerry Blackout

Yesterday afternoon, BlackBerry email service went down, leaving users in the dark, so to speak. The popular smart phone device, by Research in Motion (RIM) experienced the email failure due to and outage in the RIM network. Delays and loss of functionality was intermittent yesterday, with service coming on and off, for 12 million subscribers with BlackBerrys in North America. Along with email failure came the inability to register the device, browse the Internet or roam in different locations. Voice and SMS was said not to be affected. The service outage began yesterday (Monday) at 3:20 ET and lasted about … Continue reading →

Yahoo Rejects Microsoft Bid: No Solution Yet

Today, Yahoo rejected Microsoft’s $44.6 billion bid to takeover the flagging company. Yahoo said that its board has decided that the offer would substantially undervalue Yahoo and its stock. There is no surprise that Yahoo has rejected the controversial offer from Microsoft, a company that tried to take over Yahoo once before. But, there is still no word yet on how Yahoo will match the proposed payoff from Microsoft to its Yahoo shareholders. Perhaps Yahoo is trying to get an even larger offer from Microsoft. Microsoft for its part has stated that it will keep coming back again and again. … Continue reading →