Like Google News? Hah! Pitiful. Now a news service with 175m reporters – that’d be something. And Twitter co-founder Biz Stone wants to make one. He’s talking up the idea of a Twitter news service. Is that an intriguing idea or the recipe for a soup of supposition and downright lies?
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AOL, along with a handful of private equity firms, is planning to buy Yahoo!, according to the Wall Street Journal. The article states that: “Silver Lake Partners and Blackstone Group LP are among the firms that have expressed interest in teaming up with AOL to buy Yahoo! or trying to take it private on their own. They added that at least two or three other firms could be interested in participating if a formal buyout proposal is drawn up.”
AOL isn’t quite on top of its game, and Yahoo! has had some rough times, but if the two were joined in a sell out by AOL, could the fortunes of the companies be turned around? What do you think?
Well, look at this: Yahoo Messenger has joined the growing ranks of apps that offer 3G video calls on the iPhone. What’s more Yahoo has enabled a feature that means you can make 3G or Wi-Fi video calls between a Mac or PC and your iPhone. Come on Steve Jobs, it’s already time for that FaceTime refresh, the third-party apps are beating it…
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has filed a patens claim which pretty much pits him against all the giants of Silicon Valley. He’s claiming that he owns the technology behind basic web functions like suggested reading and pop up stock quotes, and the claims are being made against Google, Facebook, eBay, Apple, Yahoo!, AOL, YouTube and others.
Yahoo! has just unleashed two free new Android apps – Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger. While they might not be the first choice for Android fans with Gmail and Google Talk integrated into the OS, if you’ve got a Yahoo! account the new apps could be pretty handy. Hop through to find out what features Yahoo! has crammed into its first Android apps…
Footy fans rejoice! Yahoo has snagged the rights to show highlights from the English Premier League online until 2013. From August, it’ll mean football fans can grab highlight packages of every single Barclays Premier League match online.
iPad owners are targeted by a new Greenpeace report which accuses the iPad and other cloud computing dependent tech like Facebook and the Google Chrome OS. The big problem is apparently the energy chugging data centres that power cloud-reliant tech like the iPad.