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Yahoo celebrated a pair of milestones this week, announcing over 500,000 Facebook fans, "which was the most explosive page on Facebook in June," and building an army of over 100 million monthly active users in the newest version of Yahoo Mail. Want more numbers? Yahoo claims it sifts through around 5,000 pieces of feedback about its online mail service each day.
It's no secret Hulu's owners want to sell the video streaming service, but what isn't isn't yet know is who will buy it and how much Hulu will fetch. Hulu set a deadline for Wednesday for suitors to submit their initial bids, and this could turn out to be a multi-billion dollar deal, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Hey, Tremors fans; we still don't know if you're actually only six connections away from having a BBQ with Kevin Bacon in your backyard. If you're looking to advance the technology that could one day put that question to rest, though, you should check out the Small World Experiment. No, it doesn't have anything to do with Disney rides; it's a joint venture between Yahoo! and Facebook to put the whole "six degrees of separation" thing to the test by tapping into the social network's 750 million member-strong user base.
A glitch in the Matrix (or some other calamity) has some Yahoo email users shaking an angry fist at the god of electronic messages today. Others have found it more therapeutic to voice their frustrations on Twitter in succinct 140-character or less outrages. Those having trouble accessing their Yahoo email account see an error message stating "This webpage is not available," while others have noted "Error 501 (net::ERR_INSECURE_RESPONSE): Unknown Error," along with other messages. Unfortunately, Yahoo isn't much more enlightening on what's going on.
The declaration that email is dead has been made on more than one occasion, and not just by random citizens with a WordPress account. If we're calling out names, we'll point to a Wall Street Journal
Yahoo introduced the latest version of its mail service late last year in beta form and has decided it's now ready for prime time. Over the coming weeks, all 284 million users worldwide will start seeing the upgraded platform, as will Yahoo's global partners, including Nokia. Key features of the revamped mail service include improved performance, enhanced spam protection, and a customizable inbox with an emphasis on social networking.
The comScore numbers for April will likely have Microsoft employees cheering, but softly so as not to disturb the Ballmer. The data shows that Microsoft's Bing search engine continues to slowly gain market share as Google and the competition remain flat.
You may have noticed that your Yahoo email account was on the fritz yesterday. If so, there's no need to go mucking around with your router settings or trying to troubleshoot the problem on your own. There was somewhat of a widespread outage that started at 7:30AM and, at its worst (around 11:00AM) affected about 1 million users, Yahoo said on its official Mail Blog.
Yahoo found a pair of buyers for its Delicious social bookmarking site. Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, who you might recognize as the founders of YouTube, paid an undisclosed sum to acquire Delicious. Whatever that sum is, it's a safe bet that they paid significantly less than the $1.65 billion they made from selling YouTube to Google back in October 2006.
If Google is one of the most prominent Linux stalwarts around, Android is undoubtedly the public face of its love affair with the open source operating system. But its Linux affection runs deeper than that as the Internet behemoth uses the OS on everything from back-end servers to employee machines. Now, that deep-rooted love is beginning to cost Google, for a jury has fined it $5 million for infringing on a patent (U.S. Patent No. 5,893,120) held by Texas-bases patent troll Bedrock Computer Technologies.








