Internet entrepreneur and investor Jason Calacanis suggests that Facebook may go the way of AOL and Yahoo. “This could be, it’s possible, maybe not probable but possible, this could be their AOL peak, their Yahoo peak,” said Calacanis. “I think this could be peak Facebook right now.” Jason Calacanis, Internet entrepreneur and angel investor in […]
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nevodka / Shutterstock.com Remember Yahoo Small Business? Before Facebook, before GoDaddy, before Google My Business, it was the top webhosting, e-commerce and marketing platform for small businesses. For years it was also neglected as a kind of cash cow without much new investment; it was also going to be spun out as Aabaco Small Business.
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Verizon-owned Oath has unified its ad tech stack under the new brand name Oath Ad Platforms. The effort has been underway for more than a year and follows Google and Amazon’s ad tech stack consolidations in recent months. Oath Ad Platforms for marketers rolls up technology gained from several acquisitions: BrightRoll, One by AOL and
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When it comes to being visible online, video content is increasingly proving its worth as a way to grab attention and – crucially – to engage meaningfully with internet users. Currently, one third of all time spent online is accounted for by watching video and it is predicted that 80% of all internet traffic will
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Roughly three years ago, Yahoo and Mozilla announced that Yahoo would be the default search engine on Firefox in the US. That relationship ended early when Mozilla released the much-improved Firefox Quantum browser last month, with Google as the default search provider. Now, Yahoo’s parent company, Oath (Verizon), is suing Mozilla for breach of contract. Oath says that Mozilla “terminated a
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Remember Tumblr? You’d be forgiven for having forgotten. Ever since Yahoo acquired the microblogging platform for $1.1 billion in May 2013, Tumblr has tumbled out of the zeitgeist. Four years after the acquisition, Tumblr remains, though its founder will not. Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp is leaving the company, and its president and COO, Jeff
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Yahoo is giving away crucial technology powering its internal searches to the world. The internet company has just made Vespa, a search tool used by the tech company for searches within its network has now been open-sourced, described to be the company’s biggest open-source code release since it made Hadoop open source in 2009. Oath
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