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Yahoo Topples Google to Become Number One in Web Traffic, First Time Since 2011

Yahoo surprisingly moved past Google as the top Web property during July according to comScore. This is the first time Yahoo has outpaced Google since May 2011. The sites contributing most to Yahoo’s high number of unique visitors include Flickr, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, and Yahoo Sports, though it’s hard to tell which property in… Continue reading Yahoo Topples Google to Become Number One in Web Traffic, First Time Since 2011

This is Your Year! Draft a Winning Team with the New Yahoo Fantasy Football App

Are you a fantasy football fan? Today the Yahoo! Fantasy Sports mobile team has launched the 2013 Fantasy Sports app for the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Android smartphones, with a sleek new design and lots of cool new features. Now you can also draft your team on a mobile device, which has been a… Continue reading This is Your Year! Draft a Winning Team with the New Yahoo Fantasy Football App

A Mini Guide to Internet Literacy

So you’re old and out of touch. You’ve been too busy keeping up with the Jones’s to notice the Zuckerberg’s, Page’s, Systrom’s, Huffman’s, and all the other geeks creeping round the bend. Maybe you can’t understand WTF your kid or grandkid is saying when they tell you on Skype that they’ll TTYL ‘cause their BFF… Continue reading A Mini Guide to Internet Literacy

It’s Time to Register the Yahoo ID of Your Dreams

You know when you sign up for a new email address and all the good IDs are taken? As in, I can’t sign up for lauren@AwesomeEmailProvider.com because someone else got to the worm before I did. Whether they end up using the account or not is another story, but either way I am forced to… Continue reading It’s Time to Register the Yahoo ID of Your Dreams

Meet the New Flickr: Yahoo Unveils a Bigger Instagram-Like Design

Yahoo has just rolled out a major face-lift for Flickr, its photo sharing service, making it much bigger and grandiose. This marks a historic 24-hour period for Yahoo which also just put the finishing touches on a deal to buy the popular social networking platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion! And in the Flickr and Tumblr… Continue reading Meet the New Flickr: Yahoo Unveils a Bigger Instagram-Like Design

20 Hilarious Reactions to the Yahoo-Tumblr Deal

When the surprising news of the $1.1 billion Yahoo-Tumblr deal broke yesterday, Tumblr users set into a mild panic. With no update from their favorite blogging platform, users took to their Tumblrs to express their fear and make requests of David Karp, Tumblr founder and CEO: Some users were so worried they began flocking to… Continue reading 20 Hilarious Reactions to the Yahoo-Tumblr Deal