Inside Yahoo

Author : Karen Angel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780471421023

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Inside Yahoo! by Karen Angel Pdf

An intriguing look at an Internet pioneer and global powerhouse Reaching sixty percent of all Net users, Yahoo! is one of the most popular Internet portals and one of the most successful companies in the world today. Inside Yahoo! takes readers on a fascinating journey through the thoughts and motivations behind the company. Revealing stories of on-again, off-again management, the race for innovation, and the constant focus on survival, this book will engage readers on many different levels. With access to Yahoo's top executives, author Karen Angel describes the complementary, but different styles that have made Yahoo! one of the few surviving business models in the struggling Internet sector. An informed and astute narrative traces the company's transformation from a twenty-something brainstorm to a sophisticated community to a onetime Wall Street darling that managed to ride-out the recent market shakeout. Along the way, readers will follow in the steps and missteps of this unique company and see how it keeps reinventing itself to keep ahead of a changing marketplace.

Author : Nicholas Carlson
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781455556625

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Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo! by Nicholas Carlson Pdf

A page-turning narrative about Marissa Mayer's efforts to remake Yahoo as well as her own rise from Stanford University undergrad to CEO of a $30 billion corporation by the age of 38. When Yahoo hired star Google executive Mayer to be its CEO in 2012 employees rejoiced. They put posters on the walls throughout Yahoo's California headquarters. On them there was Mayer's face and one word: HOPE. But one year later, Mayer sat in front of those same employees in a huge cafeteria on Yahoo's campus and took the beating of her life. Her hair wet and her tone defensive, Mayer read and answered a series of employee-posed questions challenging the basic elements of her plan. There was anger in the room and, behind it, a question: Was Mayer actually going to be able to do this thing? MARISSA MAYER AND THE FIGHT TO SAVE YAHOO! is the inside story of how Yahoo got into such awful shape in the first place, Marissa Mayer's controversial rise at Google, and her desperate fight to save an Internet icon. In August 2011 hedge fund billionaire Daniel Loeb took a long look at Yahoo and decided to go to war with its management and board of directors. Loeb then bought a 5% stake and began a shareholder activist campaign that would cost the jobs of three CEOs before he finally settled on Google's golden girl Mayer to unlock the value lurking in the company. As Mayer began to remake Yahoo from a content company to a tech company, an internal civil war erupted. In author Nicholas Carlson's capable hands, this riveting book captures Mayer's rise and Yahoo's missteps as a dramatic illustration of what it takes to grab the brass ring in Silicon Valley. And it reveals whether it is possible for a big lumbering tech company to stay relevant in today's rapidly changing business landscape.

Author : Owen Walker
Publisher : Pearson UK
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781292114002

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Barbarians in the Boardroom by Owen Walker Pdf

Author : Jeremy Ring
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781682615799

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We Were Yahoo! by Jeremy Ring Pdf

For anyone paying attention, the beginning of the end for Yahoo! began with decisions made by the first team of executives while the company was on its way up, which set the stage for horrific decisions made by subsequent generations of Yahoo! leadership. Most decisions were either pure incompetence or just lack of vision by CEOs from 2001 to the present. Twenty-one years after its incorporation and sixteen years after its stock peak, Yahoo sold for 96% less than its value on January 3, 2000, when it had closed at an all-time high of $118.75 per share, resulting in a market capitalization of $120 billion. Wall Street valued Yahoo!, at that time in business less than six years, higher than it did Disney, News Corporation, and Comcast combined. Also on that day, the iPhone was more than seven years away from launch, Google was four years from its IPO, Amazon was hemorrhaging money, and Mark Zuckerberg was still in high school! At the end of 2016, the top seven businesses on the list of the highest-valued companies in the world by market capitalization include Apple at #1, Alphabet (Google’s Parent Company) at #2, Amazon.com at #5, and Facebook at #7. Those companies combined are valued in excess of $2 trillion more than the price Verizon paid to acquire Yahoo! Yahoo!’s story is one of missed strategies, failed opportunities, and poor execution. Early decisions to de-emphasize search features, undervalue Google, and overplay Yahoo’s hand in the Facebook negotiations haunted the rest of the company’s existence. In addition, factors outside of Yahoo’s control—most notably how irrational expectations of Wall Street created an environment where short-term decisions were made at the expense of the long-term good. The story of Yahoo! is a cautionary tale not intended for the faint of heart.

Author : Charles Freedman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780470144213

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Yahoo! Maps Mashups by Charles Freedman Pdf

Written by Charles Freedman, a senior Flash developer at Yahoo!, this book provides you with all the information you’ll need to know about APIs in order to build amazing map mashups. You’ll find in-depth coverage of Yahoo! mapping tools and technologies and a variety of techniques for working with the APIs. Yahoo! Maps Mashups explores each API flavor, guiding you through the simple yet comprehensive sets of API calls so that you will gain a strong understanding of the capabilities of each map technology through its respective API.

Author : Paul Bausch
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780596553135

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Yahoo! Hacks by Paul Bausch Pdf

Yahoo! took the world by storm in the 1990s as a one-of-a-kind, searchable list of interesting web sites. But ten years later, it has expanded into a department store overflowing with useful and innovative tools and services-from email, blogging, social networking, and instant messaging, to news, financial markets, shopping, movie and TV listings, and much more. Today's Yahoo! keeps you connected with every aspect of your life and every corner of the Web. Yahoo! Hacks shows you how to use, expand, personalize, and tweak Yahoo! in ways you never dreamed possible. You'll learn how to: Fine-tune search queries with keyword shortcuts and advanced syntax Manage and customize Yahoo! Mail, using it as your universal email client to access all your other accounts Explore your social networks with Yahoo! 360, blogging your life, keeping up with friends, and making new contacts Store, sort, blog, feed, track, and otherwise share photos with Flickr and RSS Make My Yahoo! your Yahoo!, and personalize Yahoo!'s many properties Roll your own Yahoo! applications with Yahoo! new Web Services API and Perl, PHP, Java, Python, Ruby, or the programming language of your choice Visualize search results and topics, mash up images from around the Web, and remix other web content List (or hide) your site with Yahoo!, and integrate Yahoo! Groups, Messenger, contextual search (Y!Q), or other Yahoo! features Whether you want to become a power searcher, news monger, super shopper, or innovative web developer, Yahoo! Hacks provides the tools to take you further than you ever thought possible.

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666933420

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Citizenship and the Diaspora in the Digital Age by Toyin Falola Pdf

In Citizenship and the Diaspora in the Digital Age: Farooq Kperogi and the Virtual Community, Toyin Falola examines how the members of the Nigerian diaspora create a virtual community and instrumentalize the digital age to speak about the nation and its failures, possibilities, and promises. This book depicts individuals' relationships with society and how the world's progressive shift toward technology and globalization does not disregard the concept of society and its members. As a result of this shift, people have been migrating to new places without giving up their citizenship in their home countries. This book explores how migrants are focused on the idea of a virtual community, examines how citizens' roles have evolved through time, and displays society's essential principles in this light. Furthermore, it evaluates social commentaries enhanced by the dynamics of the digital age, such as societal issues like education in Nigeria, the question of democracy, challenges facing the country, and the development of a national language. Many of these societal challenges are examined in this book from the perspective of Farooq Kperogi, who has conducted extensive studies and published on the above themes. This is balanced against emerging facts, Nigerians' positions, and disregarded realities. Kperogi's relentless writings on Nigeria make him a preeminent figure whose positions are valuable to the understanding of modern Nigeria.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Competition
ISBN : PSU:000065520543

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The Google-Yahoo! Agreement and the Future of Internet Advertising by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights Pdf

Author : Amit Kumar Tyagi,Ajith Abraham,A. Kaklauskas,N. Sreenath,Gillala Rekha,Shaveta Malik
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000510171

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Security and Privacy-Preserving Techniques in Wireless Robotics by Amit Kumar Tyagi,Ajith Abraham,A. Kaklauskas,N. Sreenath,Gillala Rekha,Shaveta Malik Pdf

The wide gap between the existing security solutions and the actual practical deployment in smart manufacturing, smart home, and remote environments (with respect to wireless robotics) is one of the major reasons why we require novel strategies, mechanisms, architectures, and frameworks. Furthermore, it is also important to access and understand the different level of vulnerabilities and attack vectors in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) and Wireless Robotics. This book includes an in-depth explanation of a secure and dependable Wireless Robotics (WR) architecture, to ensure confidentiality, authenticity, and availability. Features Blockchain technology for securing data at end/server side Emerging technologies/networking, like Cloud, Edge, Fog, etc., for communicating and storing data (securely). Various open issues, challenges faced in this era towards wireless robotics, including several future research directions for the future. Several real world’s case studies are included Chapters on ethical concerns and privacy laws, i.e., laws for service providers Security and privacy challenges in wireless sensor networks and wireless robotics The book is especially useful for academic researchers, undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and industry researchers and professionals.

Author : Paul Clough,Colum Foley,Cathal Gurrin,Gareth Jones,Wessel Kraaij,Hyowon Lee,Vanessa Murdock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 795 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642201615

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Advances in Information Retrieval by Paul Clough,Colum Foley,Cathal Gurrin,Gareth Jones,Wessel Kraaij,Hyowon Lee,Vanessa Murdock Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 33rd annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2011, held in Dublin, Ireland, in April 2010. The 45 revised full papers presented together with 24 poster papers, 17 short papers, and 6 tool demonstrations were carefully reviewed and selected from 223 full research paper submissions and 64 poster/demo submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on text categorization, recommender systems, Web IR, IR evaluation, IR for Social Networks, cross-language IR, IR theory, multimedia IR, IR applications, interactive IR, and question answering /NLP.

Author : Edward A. Dornan,Robert Dees
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0321091035

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Four in One by Edward A. Dornan,Robert Dees Pdf

This rhetoric, reader, research paper guide, and brief handbook is the first writing text to fully explain the how's and why's of critical thinking. This discussion of critical thinking is integrated into the chapters on the writing process and the patterns of organization. Through this unique approach, students learn how to use reflective and critical thinking in writing and reading. The book is designed for maximum flexibility each part of the book is self-contained. The readings section of the book is organized alphabetically so instructors are not locked into just one approach. The text also features an ESL section in its handbook, a unique chapter on using the Internet for research, and individual and collaborative exercises throughout.

Author : Emily B. Laidlaw
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107049130

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Regulating Speech in Cyberspace by Emily B. Laidlaw Pdf

This book analyses the role of businesses in regulating and influencing the exercise of free speech on the internet.

Author : Peter H. Gregory,Mike Simon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780764598418

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Blocking Spam and Spyware For Dummies by Peter H. Gregory,Mike Simon Pdf

Fight back and save money with these expert tips Find out what spam and spyware cost your company, and how to stop them Whether yours is a one-person business or a multi-million dollar corporation, here's help giving spammers and spies the bum's rush. Two veterans of the spam wars help you analyze your situation, choose the right solutions, set up and maintain them, and even show the bean-counters why such defenses are essential. Discover how to * Understand how spammers get addresses * Calculate the cost of spam and spyware * Re-engineer your business processes * Select spam and spyware filters * Manage implementation and maintenance

Author : P. M. Heathcote,R. P. Richards
Publisher : Payne Gallway
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1903112370

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Key Skills in Information Techology by P. M. Heathcote,R. P. Richards Pdf

Covers the IT skills needed to achieve the Key Skills Certificate in Information Technology at levels 2 and 3 and explains how the students can build a portfolio of evidence.

Author : Michael Margolis,David Resnick
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781452265032

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Politics as Usual by Michael Margolis,David Resnick Pdf

Cyberspace is no longer a mystery. It has become irrevocably intertwined with everyday life, facilitating everything from reading the news and paying the bills to ordering birthday presents. We are in the midst of a revolution in mass communication, and there now exists the technology for creating new forms of community, empowering citizens, and challenging existing power structures. But will such changes occur? In this fascinating book Michael Margolis and David Resnick ponder the effects of cyberspace on American Politics. Our political system tends to normalize political activity, and thus, the Internet′s vast potential could be lost, rendering it just another purveyor of ignored information. This broad examination begins with a history of cyberspace and moves through discussions of parties, political interest groups, candidates, mass media, information dissemination, and commercial uses of the Internet. Politics as Usual offers an innovative and exciting look into previously ignored aspects of the Internet and American politics.