Thursday, February 9th, 2012 3:45 am

Yahoo: Email service gets major update

Sunnyvale (ip-192.com): Yahoo email users are getting a first glimpse of a major overhaul – the Sunnyvale based company is rolling out the biggest redesign to its mail service since 2005. 273 million people worldwide use Yahoo Mail, and now they can opt-in to use the beta version of the revamped mail service. Besides unlimited [...]

Google rules: 72.15 percent market share

Mountain View (ip-192.com): Google remains strong in the search market and even manages to edge a nudge higher in September. The latest figures published by Expirien Hitwise, a global online competitive intelligence service, say that Google accounted for 72.15 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Oct. 2, 2010. This is [...]

Starbucks: Free Wi-Fi at 6,700 locations

Seattle (ip-192.com): Starbucks will start to serve a Latté or Frappuccino with free in-store Wi-Fi through AT&T, starting July 1, 2010. Later in the year, the Seattle based coffee and coffeehouse chain will roll out the Starbucks Digital Network in partnership with Yahoo and other sites. The service will include a mix of free local [...]

Takeover: Yahoo buys Associated Content

Santa Clara (ip-192.com): Yahoo agreed to buy Associated Content, an online publisher and distributor of original content that attracts roughly 16 million users per month, according to comScore. The Denver based company has 380,000 contributors on its payroll. They produce text, video, audio, and photo content covering markets such as travel, technology, science, and sports. [...]