Search results for

The company has evolved from an Internet directory to a Web portal to a content destination, but its relevance is slipping. Though still profitable, Yahoo fired its CEO this week; whoever takes over needs to be able to navigate the changing Internet landscape, experts say.

The new millennium is marked by rapid growth and change in the media landscape during which the station quickly becomes a powerful and trusted news source, especially during times of crisis.

Currently 21% of all cell phone users in the U.S. have smart phones which can surf the web and play music, movies and games. We look at the current state of the art, especially I Phone 4 and the Android operating system, the future of Blackberry, and how sales are affecting Qualcomm, which produces smart phone software.

An internal memo sent to Google employees was aimed at company recruiters, reminding them that this week many countries in Asia celebrate the Lunar New Year. The memo urged recruiters to hold off on sending any rejection letters right now, since it's considered bad luck to receive bad news during the New Year.

In a new memoir, James Lasdun describes how a former-student-turned-friend stalked and slandered him online. Give Me Everything You Have is a meditation on what it means to control your reputation on the Internet — and the book is Lasdun's attempt to fight back.

If you're a parent of a certain age, your kids' homework can be confounding. Blame it on changes in the way children are taught math these days — which can make you feel like you're not very good with numbers.

The U.S. housing industry has yet to recover from the last recession, but you wouldn't know that by looking at rising home prices in California's still-prosperous Silicon Valley. By being conservative with his ventures, James Witt has made a successful business out of rebuilding Palo Alto homes.

Years after leaving his home in northern India, journalist Siddhartha Deb returned to explore the true impact of globalization on his homeland. In The Beautiful and the Damned, Deb exposes the darker side of Indian prosperity.

Would Twitter have succeeded if it had been called Twitch, as it first considered? When it comes to naming your business, there's a lot at stake. A company name is how it connects with consumers, investors and other businesses.

Yahoo is rejecting an unsolicited $44.6 billion offer from Microsoft. But it remains to be seen whether Yahoo shareholders will support a management decision to snub the software giant's bid.