Showing posts with label Internet News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet News. Show all posts

May 16, 2012

Yahoo Third CEO Fired For Lying

Yahoo! CEO resigns after lying on your resume - Scott Thompson, now EX CEO of Yahoo becomes the third chief executive to leave the company in three years. Scott Thompson is stepping down after a controversy over a fake university degree in Computer Science, which became the third chief executive to leave the company in three years.

Yahoo Third CEO Fired For Lying

His departure is a victory for the hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb of Third Point LLC, which is one of the largest outside shareholders of Yahoo! and brought to light the discrepancy in the background educations Thompson. Yahoo! said in a statement that its global head of media that "now onward, Ross Levinsohn will be the interim CEO to replace Thompson."

Thompson's departure after four months in the job puts into question the future of Yahoo! as it struggles to revive its growth from a fierce competition with firms like Google and Facebook and while producing a long-term strategy to convince investors and thus reverse its stock decline.

Yahoo! had resumed talks recently to sell all or part of its more than 40 per cent stake in China's Internet website and e-commerce Alibaba after dropping an earlier plan to make a complex tax-free transaction. Yahoo company was struggling to find its way before all this happened and the situation will be lost in the woods for a long time," said Ben Schacter , analyst at Macquarie Securities . He also said that "It is no exaggeration to say that Yahoo! has deep structural problems".

Fund manager at GAMCO Investors (Share Holder of yahoo!) said "The dysfunctionality of Yahoo! company is relatively unprecedented. Now he thinks that the sale of the company is the best option.

According to Europa Press, the shares of Yahoo! closed at $ 15.19 on Friday at the Nasdaq electronic platform. The company also appointed a new director named Fred Amoroso, president of the board in place of Roy Bostock, who left in February.

Mar 29, 2012

Google Surpasses Facebook In 2012

The employees in Google are working for the Search Engine Giant Whereas, Facebook employees working for social networking Giant. After 3 consecutive years in which Facebook has surpassed Google but now a study has shown that the roles have changed.

Google Surpasses Facebook In 2012

Facebook was named the best technology company to work last year. But in 2012, Google is once again the king. After analyzing the comments on different aspects, Google has reached the note of 3.9 whereas Facebook rating is 3.7 . Facebook received the highest rating from its employees from 2009 to 2011 but 2012 is for Google.

Ratings are mentioned below from 2009 to 2011:

      Year     Facebook   Google
2009:        4.4             3.8
2010:        4.7             3.7
2011:        4.2             4.1

The rankings are based on a five-point scale where five means very satisfied, and one very dissatisfied. Google employees have given a score of 94 Page percent approval, which is slightly over 92 percent of Facebook.

The interesting thing that the salary is higher in Facebook, but the fees and bonuses are better in Google.

Workers in the network are concerned about the long hours and stress. The hard-work and dedication of employees of both the companies is the reason where the Google and Facebook stands today..!!

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Mar 1, 2012

Protest Against Internet Blocking Law in the United States

New York / Washington / Berlin - strike on the Internet: The English language version of online encyclopedia Wikipedia is gone for the day on Wednesday by the network.

Internet Blocking Law

The creators of the web encyclopaedia in protest against two proposed U.S. legislation that, in the fight against piracy on the Internet drastic measures such as power locks. Many other sites such as Google on Wednesday took part in the protest were, but not offline. There was a coordinated resistance of this magnitude has never been found on the Internet. In the meantime, seems to support the U.S. Congress for legislation to erode gradually.

Critics argue that the planned infrastructure censored unpopular content and Internet users could be spoon-fed. To similar objections were last year also failed barrings plans in Germany. In this country, however, were not the focus of copyright infringement, but the fight against child pornography. The prohibited content will be deleted right now so that power locks are no longer necessary. The music and film industry is, however, even in Europe continues to be a lock for piracy on the net.

When Wikipedia was posted on Wednesday displayed instead of the usual English-language entries, a dark side, with a protest statement. Google search box placed under his link to an online petition against the law. For users in the United States, the colorful Google logo was covered with a black square. Throughout the network were also the world's popular web-blog "Boing Boing" and the online network Reddit. The homepage of the blog platform WordPress was "censored" full of black blocks with the label. Even the funny cat pictures known for fun side "I can have Cheese Burger" was a protest statement.