Tag: yahoo

  • Facebook Topples Yahoo From #3

    While it’s already been the #2 website on Alexa for long, Facebook has finally overtaken Yahoo to become the third most popular destination on the web. As per comScore’s data, in the last month (November 2010) Facebook had an estimated 648 million unique visitors from around the world compared to Yahoo’s 630 million. Google and…

  • Yahoo Mail launches HTML5 version for iPad

    Yahoo Mail is still the largest web mail service in the world. Gmail is gaining popularity, however, it is still behind Yahoo in terms on number of users. Soon after the iPad was released, Gmail launched an iPad version. Yahoo is catching up and has recently launched a HTML5 version of its popular web mail…

  • Yahoo to lay off 10% of its workforce

    Yahoo is gonna let go 10% of its staff. Maybe more next year. Yahoo’s CEO Jerry Yang dropped this bomb in a company wide email. Apparently this will help the company save $400 million in annual costs. Here is the full email text: From: Jerry Yang [mailto:jerry@yahoo-inc.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 2:20 PM To:…