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...great deal of similar content is available at CNN.com and MSNBC.com. Those sites also have real-time video of breaking-news events. The sports section of the Times may be good at covering local teams, but most national sports news is available at sites like CBS SportsLine and Yahoo! (YHOO) Sports. (See pictures of baseball's top 10 worst first pitches...
...mobile devices. The smartphone, which is really a PC for the pocket, is part of the one-billion-units-per-year-in-sales handset industry. Providing the operating software and other key components for wireless devices is almost certainly the next big thing for tech companies from Google to Yahoo (YHOO) to Microsoft to Adobe (ADBE). Trying to milk more money out of the PC gets harder and harder. For the largest companies in the industry, it has become a zero sum game. (See pictures of the 50 best websites...
Just as important, WPS plans to market the league beyond the ponytail posse, its core fan base of tween and pre-tween girls. "The WUSA was more aspirational for young girls," says Antonucci, a former Yahoo! executive and Stanford soccer player who has worked on the league's relaunch for more than four years. "What we're doing is socially important, but it has to be broader than that." In Boston, for example, the players have headed out to city bars to play pool with twenty-somethings and connect with young adult fans. On Sunday the Chicago Red Stars will...
...printing paper, and postal rates. It clearly did not occur to them that the early internet successes like Lycos, Excite, and Altavisa were in the information gathering, sorting, and creating businesses. Their indexing and presentation of content looked clumsy in 1997 and 1998. It is incredible to remember that Yahoo! (YHOO) had its first day of 100,000 unique visitors in 1994. The company went public in early 1996. Google (GOOG) raised $25 million in 1999. In 2000, it was offering search results in ten languages. (See pictures of Google Earth...
Ironically, it was U.S. technology firms that created much of the technology supporting the Great Firewall, and companies such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have taken tough criticism from human rights advocates for tolerating the country's censorship. "I simply don't understand how your corporate leadership sleeps at night," the late Rep. Tom Lantos, a Holocaust survivor, told tech representatives at a 2006 House hearing. Yahoo has taken the most heat, after it acknowledged giving the government information that led to the imprisonment of at least one Chinese journalist. (The company says it was required to comply with Chinese...