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Palm Pre: users lose data from the cloud...which resulted in data loss for a large number of users. Palm news site, Palm Central, is advising Palm Pre users to back up their information using Google or Yahoo's sync services. But do these cases make you trust the cloud less? Out now... In this article: Palm Pre, Palm, Cloud computing, Yahoo, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and US |
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Macworld | 2 days ago
Dell tries to trademark 'cloud computing'
...large-scale computing environments. Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Yahoo and several universities joined forces this week to promote cloud computing research and education for data-intensive Internet applications. Microsoft and Apple have recently...
In this article: Cloud computing, Dell, Trademark, Uspto, Live Mesh, Apple, Intel, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard
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eWEEK Technology News | November 02, 2009
Yahoo Open Sources Traffic Server, Updates Hadoop
...Hadoop Home Application Development Yahoo Open Sources Traffic Server, Updates Hadoop Yahoo Open Sources Traffic Server, Updates Hadoop Yahoo has taken its second major step in five months towards open-source cloud computing by...
In this article: Hadoop, Cloud computing, Apache Software Foundation, All rights reserved, Trademark, Apache Incubator, and Inktomi
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TechFlash | November 18, 2009
Top five issues to watch at Microsoft shareholders meeting
...Microsoft this week rolled out its Azure cloud-computing platform at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, and the company has been citing momentum for Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and other subscription-based...
In this article: Microsoft, Revenue, Cloud computing, Bing, Windows Mobile, Yahoo search, and Iphone
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Centre Daily Times | November 02, 2009
Yahoo! Announces Open Source Distribution of Traffic Server
...authentication, configuration management, load balancing, and routing for an entire cloud computing stack. It follows the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop as another example of Yahoo!'s unprecedented commitment to open source cloud computing...
In this article: Cloud computing, Hadoop, California, Apache Incubator, and Apache Software Foundation
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PR Newswire: Technology | November 10, 2009
Salesforce.com Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff Receives InternetNews.com 2009 CEO Vision Award
And foresighted." Editors and judges at InternetNews.com and JupiterOnlineMedia commended Benioff for building upon the company's software-as-a-service success to offer Force.com, a platform-as-a-service. In addition, Benioff was...
In this article: Salesforce.com, Marc Benioff, Customer, Cloud computing, Jupitermedia Corporation, Trademark, and Mediabistro.com
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CNET News.com | November 02, 2009
Slow Web site? Yahoo open-sources an app for that
...challenges. Shelton Shugar, Yahoo's senior vice president of cloud computing, plans to announce the move at the Cloud Computing Expo Tuesday in a keynote speech, but the software actually arrived at Apache last week. Shelton Shugar,...
In this article: Microsoft, CNET News, Cloud computing, Web server, and Hadoop
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The Register | November 02, 2009
Yahoo! open sources uber web server
...piece of technology," says Shelton Shugar, Yahoo!'s senior vp of cloud computing. "In some form, it supports more than half of Yahoo!'s traffic." The company donated a version of the platform to The Apache Software Foundation last...
In this article: Apache Software Foundation, Inktomi, Cloud computing, Hadoop, and Apache Incubator
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Indiana Times - The Economic Times | November 11, 2009
'Yahoo wants to be part of Nilekani's UID project'
...of products. Our cloud computing initiative, video search ability and the total search monetization project are being done by Yahoo! in India," she emphasises, seeing Yahoo developing even more tools out of the India centre. But the main...
In this article: India, Cancer, Autodesk, Microsoft, All rights reserved, Cloud computing, and Surgery
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Yahoo! News | November 02, 2009
Yahoo donates Traffic Server to Apache (InfoWorld)
...400 terabytes of data daily in the Yahoo network. "[Traffic Server ] allows us to speed consumer access to content," said Shelton Shugar, Yahoo senior vice president of cloud computing. "It can process upwards of 35,000 requests per...
In this article: Cloud computing, Hadoop, Revenue, Apache Software Foundation, Google, and California
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Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American public corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, (in Silicon Valley), that provides Internet services worldwide. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine (Yahoo! Search), Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, advertising, online mapping (Yahoo! Maps), video sharing (Yahoo! Video), and social media websites and services.
Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995.
On January 13, 2009, Yahoo! appointed Carol Bartz, former executive chairperson of Autodesk, as its new chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors.
According to Web traffic analysis companies (including Compete.com, comScore, Alexa Internet, Netcraft, and Nielsen Ratings), the domain yahoo.com attracted at least 1.575 billion visitors annually by 2008. The global network of Yahoo! websites receives 3.4 billion page views per day on average . It is the second most visited website in the world in May 2009.
- Name:
- Yahoo! Inc.
- Type:
- Public company (NASDAQ: YHOO)
- Location City:
- 701 First Avenue
- Location Country:
- United States
- Region:
- Worldwide
- Founded:
- Santa Clara, California
- Stock Symbol (NASDAQ):
- YHOO
- Industry:
- Internet, computer software
- Key People:
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- Jerry Yang, Co-founder
- Roy J. Bostock, Chairman
- David Filo, Co-founder
- Carol Bartz, CEO
- Revenue:
- $7.22 billion USD (2008)
- Operating Income:
- $4.13 billion USD (2008)
- No. of Employees:
- 13,500 (Q1 2009)
- Motto:
- "Do you Yahoo?"
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