Yahoo: The number of mobile ‘addicts’ up 60% in the last year

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Are you constantly checking your smartphone?  Are you opening apps on it more than 60 times a day?  If so, you are not alone.  Right now throughout the world there are more than 280 million of these so-called “mobile addicts”, according to recently shared statistics by Flurry, an app analytics company that Yahoo bought last year.   Continue reading… “Yahoo: The number of mobile ‘addicts’ up 60% in the last year”

Yahoo CEO Mayer Now Requiring All Remote Employees to Not Be (Remote)

“We need to be one Yahoo!, and that starts with physically being together.”

Here is the internal memo, courtesy of some very irked Yahoo employees, sent to the company about a new rule rolled out by CEO Marissa Mayer.  The new rule requires that Yahoo employees who work remotely relocate to company facilities.

 

 

 

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Did Yahoo kill Flickr?

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Flickr’s tag line used to read “almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world.”

Flickr was something that had never been done before on the internet and it changed the shape of the internet as we know it today.  But along came Yahoo who bought Flickr and “murdered it and screwed itself out of relevance along the way.”

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Yahoo Installs Multiplayer Gaming at San Francisco Bus Stops

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Riders waiting for Muni buses at select stops in downtown will be passing the time playing video games, as well as the opportunity to win a concert by OK Go.

Yahoo recently installed huge poster-size touchscreens at 20 San Francisco bus stops, allowing commuters to play online games against people at other bus stops. Nothing brings out my allegiance to my neighborhood like some crazyass futuristic sports trivia.

 

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