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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc has launched a video-based voter guide that allows both major candidates, Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain, to…
These days, I'm constantly writing about the growth of online video, and how it is becoming more mainstream. There is news to report on the matter about every day. Partnerships are formed. New offerings are made available.
Some people check their email once an hour. Others, every five minutes. But a recent Google Apps outage made a number of accounts inaccessible for around 30 hours, and a prominent blogger had his account disabled to boot.
Online real estate Web site, Zillow.com has announced it is cutting 25 percent of its staff, which amounts to 40 employees in order to "securely batten down the hatches as we sail into a major economic storm," the company's chief executive officer, Rich Barton wrote on the Zillow Blog.
Yahoo is expected to announce some job cuts tomorrow as they announce their third quarter earnings. The number of cuts has been rumored to be anywhere between 1,000 and 3,500. The company is no stranger to letting go chunks of employees, and with current economic conditions, it is no surprise that they are at it again. Rafat Ali at PaidContent.org writes:
Last month, Yahoo Mash was shut down before ever leaving beta form. If you've never heard of Yahoo Mash, you're not alone. It didn't really catch on - hence the shut down. It was Yahoo's attempt at a social network, presumably made to compete with MySpace, Facebook, and the like. That didn't quite pan out.
