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Xconomy (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
This past Saturday, almost 700 people showed up for Cyberposium 15 at Harvard Business School, arguably the premier student-organized business school technology conference in the world, with past guests including Yahoo’s Jerry Yang, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and Google’s Marissa Mayer. The crowd consisted mostly of MBA students and other local students but had significant representation...
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UAEinteract.com - News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, in the presence of Dubai Crown Prince Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, received here yesterday Co-founder, Former CEO and Chief
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Procure IQ (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
A recent article over on Fortune by Ken Auletta lists 10 things Google has taught us. Now, it's obvious the 10 lessons provide a path to success (as you just have to look at where Google stands), but did Google teach us well? Before we can answer that, we have to review the 10 lessons. Passion Wins Larry Page and Sergey Brin are involved with Google full-time, unlike Jerry Yang and David Filo of Yahoo....
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
In a Nov. 15 story about Egypt's plan to apply for the first Internet domain name written in Arabic, The Associated Press incorrectly quoted Yahoo Inc. co-founder Jerry Yang. Yang said new Internet users in emerging markets "will need Web content, and want more content in their native language, and still others won't just be bound by language and barriers, but have other challenges such as reading,...
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Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Correction: Internet conference story SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt — In a Nov. 15 story about Egypt's plan to apply for the first Internet domain name written in Arabic, The Associated Press incorrectly quoted Yahoo Inc. co-founder Jerry Yang. Yang said new Internet users in emerging markets "will need Web content, and want more content in their native [...]
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Yahyasheikho786's Blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
CAIRO: Egypt announced it is looking to move Arabic online. The country’s information technology minister said at the opening of the Internet Governance Forum – a United Nations-sponsored that has drawn legends such as Yahoo, Jerry Yang and Tim Berners-Lee – that Egypt will apply for the first Internet domain in Arabic in an effort [...]
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Yodel Anecdotal (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
While industry analysts estimate that about 1.6 billion people are on the Internet today, this still leaves three out of every four people on this planet without access. This Sunday, at the Internet Governance Forum’s annual meeting, Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang delivered a keynote address to discuss the impact of the Internet on people’s lives, the [...]
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Maximum PC all RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Egypt is making a bit of history by being the first country to launch an Internet domain name using the Aribc script. The announcement comes not long after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) decided to allow non-Latin top level domains. Casting a cloud over Egypt's run towards the record books, Reporters Sans Frontieres, which campaigns for freedom of press, had some harsh...
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All About domains (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Egypt to apply for first Arabic domain name Egypt will apply for the first Internet domain written in Arabic, its information technology minister said Sunday at a conference grouping Yahoo's co-founder and others to discuss boosting online access in emerging nations. Tarek Kamel said Egypt on Monday would apply for the new domain — pronounced ".masr" but written in the Arabic alphabet...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Carol Bartz promised Tuesday to turn around the struggling Internet company after this year's "terrible" performance. Bartz reiterated her goal to boost operating profit margin to between 15 percent and 20 percent within the next... Yahoo - Carol Bartz - Business - Microsoft - Jerry Yang
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Digital Daily - All Things Digital (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Looks like there may be a bit of truth to reports that Cisco would rather bail on its proposed acquisition of Tandberg than raise its bid for the videoconferencing equipment manufacturer. Remarking today on speculation that Cisco would do just that, Ned Hooper, the company’s chief strategy officer, stressed that Cisco “will always act with fiscal prudence” as it pursues Tandberg.
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GigaOM (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was in fine form this week, telling the crowd assembled for the company’s analyst day that after only 14 years, Yahoo had “somehow got boring,” declaring its 6 percent operating margin as “pathetic” and announcing the start of “good times” that will leave those bad old times (hello, Jerry Yang) in [...]
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BoomTown (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
In what should come as a shock to almost no one, the detailed negotiations to complete the Microsoft and Yahoo search and online advertising final agreement is more complicated that its authors anticipated and is taking longer than expected to complete. Relax, folks--it'll get done. But here's a more important thing that should wrap up sooner than later: Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz's jibes about former CEO...
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The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
About a year ago, Yahoo's now departed top brass dragged Mad Men's Jon Hamm onto a stage in New York and launched APT, a dashboard for for display advertising buyers and sellers. At the same time, then CEO Jerry Yang announced on a Yahoo blog that APT would first open to Yahoo's newspaper consortium partners and then to "publishers, advertisers, agencies and ad networks beginning in 2009."...
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