Yahoo Answers, the pioneering online question-and-answer platform, will shut down permanently this May, forever erasing from the internet one of the original places for people to solicit unverified information from strangers. What was once an actually useful and occasionally thoughtful place for users to ask questions ultimately became yet another internet punchline, with greatest hits…
A candidate for Secretary of State in the Trump administration clashed with a Moldovan-born Jewish news anchor Wednesday over Vladimir Putin’s human rights record. Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican California congressman known for his pro-Russian views, was speaking with Yahoo News anchor Bianna Golodryga about rights abusers in China when she said, “much could be said…
Yahoo has purchased a small Israeli start-up company, ClarityRay, for an estimated $15 million to 25 million. The Tel Aviv-based company, founded in 2012, creates software to enable content publishers to dodge ad-blocking programs, and also focuses on ad security and fraud detection. “This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity enables the mass scaling of our technology, impact and…
Facebook Chief Operating Officer and newly self-styled feminist leader Sheryl Sandberg wants women to “Lean In,” as the title of her new book tells us, instead of “pulling back.” Well, let me tell you — I’ve been leaning in for two decades until the point that I am almost flat on my face from exhaustion….
The “Bread of Memory” campaign to commemorate the 1994 bomb attack on the AMIA Jewish Center in Buenos Aires won the Yahoo! Big Idea Chair Award. The award to Ogilvy & Mather Argentina, which developed the campaign, was announced by Yahoo! Argentina on Nov. 9. The campaign launched on July 2012 to commemorate the bombing…
Marissa Mayer became a new mother on September 30th when her son, whose name has apparently not yet been chosen, was born. While Mayer’s labor has ended, discussion of what she means as a symbol of working motherhood has not. It’s true that Mayer is one of just 20 women to be a CEO of…
Joseph Oppenheim’s iShop, in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, looks more or less like any other computer store. Oppenheim sells laptops and iPads, and charges for Internet access at a few Web kiosks in the back. That Internet access, however, is heavily filtered. The porn site Playboy.com is blocked, but so is Yahoo! News. That’s…
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