Articles By: James Johnson

Yahoo’s Top 10 Year In Search: iPhone Wins, Steve Jobs Doesn’t Make The List

Yahoo’s Top 10 Year In Search: iPhone Wins, Steve Jobs Doesn’t Make The List

It wasn’t a person or event that took this years most searched spot via Yahoo, instead it was a device, the iPhone to be specific. Yahoo revealed their top 10 years of 2011 during the company’s 10th annual “Year In […]

YouTube Redesigns Homepage, Adds Better Social Integration

YouTube Redesigns Homepage, Adds Better Social Integration

In their ever increasing attempt to bring their web properties up to date Google on Thursday rolled out a complete revamped YouTube homepage that features a bigger emphasis on social integration. Visitors to the site will now notice a center […]

Alibaba Attempting To Team With Softbank, Plans To Buy Yahoo

Alibaba Attempting To Team With Softbank, Plans To Buy Yahoo

Alibaba is rumored to be in talks with Japanese cellular carrier Softbank, a partnership that would allow the group to purchase all assets owned by Yahoo, Inc. According to sources at Bloomberg also involved in talks with the two company’s are Blackstone […]

Spotify Apps Arrive, Introduce New Ways To Share And Discover Music

Spotify Apps Arrive, Introduce New Ways To Share And Discover Music

Spotify on Wednesday used their conference to debut Spotify Apps, a new platform that allows users to more easily share, discover and even sing along to their favorite songs, all from within the Spotify console. Much like applications found on […]

Yahoo Eyes End Of Year Sale, May Start In A New Direction

Yahoo Eyes End Of Year Sale, May Start In A New Direction

  Reports are circulating that Yahoo Inc. executives would like to sell a minority stake in the company by year end. If a minority stake is not sold the company could also move in an entirely different direction according to insiders familiar […]

Gorillaz Release Tons Of Free Content Through Spotify, Celebrate 10 Year Anniversary

Gorillaz Release Tons Of Free Content Through Spotify, Celebrate 10 Year Anniversary

In the last 10 years the chart topping group Gorillaz have managed to score Number 1 hits in more than a dozen countries, have received various industry awards and have continued to showcase their artistic side with odd but compelling […]

U.S. Viewers Set Record, Watch 42.6 Billion Online Videos In October 2011

U.S. Viewers Set Record, Watch 42.6 Billion Online Videos In October 2011

New statistics from the U.S. comScore Video Metrix have been revealed and U.S. viewers have set a new monthly record by watching just shy of 42.6 billion online videos in October 2012. Based on those numbers the average web surfer viewed 21.1 […]

Apple Preparing To Launch Voice-Controlled Connected TVs In 2012

Apple Preparing To Launch Voice-Controlled Connected TVs In 2012

Rumors have been circulating for a while now that Apple is preparing to launch their own connected TV units and now that rumor has added voice and motion control functions to those devices. Currently known as iTV the new option […]

Twilio CEO Tries To Buy Yahoo Using WePay Donations Page, Offers Board Member Positions

Twilio CEO Tries To Buy Yahoo Using WePay Donations Page, Offers Board Member Positions

Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson wants to buy Yahoo for $18 billion and to reach that goal he has decided to skip private equity firms and instead raise the money using a grassroots campaign. Lawon this week started a WePay donations […]

Microsoft Acquires Content Analytics Technology Firm VideoSurf

Microsoft Acquires Content Analytics Technology Firm VideoSurf

Microsoft has announced the acquisition of VideoSurf, an online content analytics technology firm that will allow users to more easily find content across the company’s Xbox Live platform. Using the service users will likely be able to type in a […]

Future Publishing Sees $1 Million Earnings After Six Weeks Of Apple Newsstand Use

Future Publishing Sees $1 Million Earnings After Six Weeks Of Apple Newsstand Use

UK owned Future Publishing has taken advantage of Apple’s Newsstand in a big way, earning $1 million since launching their digital titles such six weeks ago. Future Publishing currently offers 65 titles via Newsstand that service various verticals cycling and […]

Singapore Company Sues Yahoo! For Copyright Infringement

Singapore Company Sues Yahoo! For Copyright Infringement

Yahoo! Inc. says it will “rigorously defend” itself against a copyright infringement lawsuit brought against the firm by Singapore Press Holdings, the countries largest print media outlet. According to the lawsuit Yahoo! has been reproducing content from the company’s newspapers […]

New Technology Could Cut Smartphone Battery Consumption By 74%

New Technology Could Cut Smartphone Battery Consumption By 74%

A new type of network proxy is being developed by researchers at Aalto University in Finland that could help cut the power consumption required by 3G Smartphones by 74 percent. The new device sits between the internet and mobile phones and handles most […]

Microsoft Signs Non-Disclosure Agreement With Yahoo, Considers New Acquisition Bid

Microsoft Signs Non-Disclosure Agreement With Yahoo, Considers New Acquisition Bid

Microsoft this week jumped into the Yahoo! acquisition game by signing a non-disclosure agreement that allows the company to examine Yahoo!’s core business finances and other important documents that could lead the company to a bid. According to reports Microsoft […]