Yahoo bough Broadcast.com, an online television site founded by Mark Cuban, for $5.7 billion in 1999
Yahoo acquired GeoCities for $3.6 billion
TOP 5 BEST INTERNET ACQUISITIONS
Google's acquisition of Android, the mobile operating system maker, was miniscule at an estimated $50 million. But the deal eight years ago turned out to be the foundation for Google's Android operating system now used in 75% of all smartphones and more than half of all tablets sold.
Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006. According to one analyst, it took in $2.4 billion last year
Google bought DoubleClick for $3.1 billion in 2008. The deal helped Google expand from search advertising to selling much bigger ads that appear on partner websites. DoubleClick has an expected 17.6% U.S. market share this year -- greater than Yahoo and Facebook.
A friend of the family was somewhat distraught when her son skipped college after HS and took a welding job. He was living the redneck life with a big pickup, wore a hardhat to work every day, etc. The years go by and this man goes from being an apprentice to a master welder. Then he decided to form his own welding crew with some coworkers from jobs he'd had from various jobs. Now the guy who everybody said was taking the wrong path owns his own business and makes absolutely gobs of $$. True story.
I don't think this would survive a court challenge. US federal law governs these activities, not state law. The Interstate Commerce Act has been in effect since the railroad industry in the 19th century.
This seems just like an excuse for overgrown 12 year olds to play around with explosives. I have to question the scientific merit of this "experiment".
If the university lowered graduation standards for some students, there would be a taint on the degree. But this case is just the opposite - it's holding the standards high but giving extra help to talent students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds. All of the graduates will still have passed the same courses as in previous years.
What makes these people more deserving ? Let's say a good high school school sends 100 students to a university and a really bad one sends 5. Who would you rather have - student 101 from the top high school or the 6th best student from the other ? I'd say it shows a lot more talent to be the top of your class in bad circumstances than to be in the middle of the pack when you've got everything going for you.
I'd say a course specializing in testing procedures would be excellent. I'd even go so far as to say it should be part of the required curriculum. But I'd say an entire major in this would be overkill. It might even limit future career growth.
My guess is that all of this "smart" gear is tied into the internet, using default or no passwords. It will probably take some hacker shutting down a large section of the grid for the industry to get serious about security.
American federal law prohibits policies that discriminate based on sex. By giving different leave times according to the person's gender, Yahoo is in violation. They could be subject to EEOC fines or even sued in civil court by any aggrieved parties (meaning the dads).
I'm sure the FBI / NSA has some supercomputers that could crack his computer in very short order. If they did, would the evidence be permissible in US court ? Would this be considered unreasonable search and seizure ? Is a court order needed to use cracking software like this ? There are lots of legal technicalities that need to be resolved here.
This is absolutely true. Firing an individual employee can be fraught with troublesome legal consequences for the firm. The terminated person can challenge the termination for a number of different reasons that are protected by federal law (age > 40, race, sex, religion, etc). Regardless of the merits of the case it becomes an expensive and unpleasant situation with the company's name being dragged through the mud. So I wouldn't be surprised if companies used economic downturns to "clean house" of people they would have loved to fire previously. But when done in a group and due to a cause (market crash, revenues down) the firings are much more difficult to legally contest.
Anytime you have a large population in a small area all wanting to make calls, the system will be overloaded. Capacity is built for normal use (which is probably 95 or 99% of normal call volume). When there are spikes in demand exceeding this volume, the network will not work as well (or even fail). Also if the network is physically damaged (such as Hurricane Sandy) it won't carry even normal call volumes. How is this not common sesne ?
It's no fault of social media that they are more timely and have more information than local / national news organizations. People want to get the info so they turn to whatever source they can. I don't see it as some crass opportunism to increase page count. It's simply social media sites deliver what the people want more quickly than anybody else.
Same thing in NYC when the earthquake hit - cell service was immediately overwhelmed. Even texts stopped working after a few minutes. Just too many people using their cells in a relatively small area.
If you're really a bad-ass programmer, why not just get a job in finance. Hedge funds and other investment groups pay insane amounts of money to recruit the very best guys. These jobs have long hours and don't have the longevity of other types of employment but the $$ compensates for that.
I think it's prudent to use IE at most job sites. I've had difficulties in the past using Opera. The last thing a job applicant wants is to have the resume submission process go haywire because of a non-standard browser. Since company job boards are likely designed for IE, why not use it, especially if it reduces your chances for errors ?
It seems that Yahoo is throwing the baby out with the bathwater with this decision. Surely some of their employees are productive with remote connections and would continue to be that way. And some good staff will choose to leave now because their job has become less desirable. But why suspend work-from-home rights for everyone? Is it that the vast majority of these work-from-home staff were seen as not contributing ? Or is management just not willing to do the difficult job of keeping track of its employees and finds it easier to just give an ultimatum ?
Finance. Investment Banking. M&A Lots of young guys and very few middle aged or older. Burnout is high from the crazy hours. Lots of office politics. Cutthroat culture. Some do make a fortune and don't have to work anymore. But most leave / are let go by age 35 or so. Very few ever make it to senior management.
While there's got to be some truth to this statement, I think the tremendous explosion of texting and Twitter must have contributed at least somewhat to the perceived decline in writing skills among young people.
My significant other is a big Blackberry fan and has been for years. The ability for her to type messages is the main attraction for her since she does most of her email on it. By having an interface without the keys, I think the company is overthinking it. Don't try to be like an iphone, be your own brand and excel at it. Likely this is the swan song for Blackberry.
I asked our IT Director and he said we won't even consider testing Windows 8 for a least a year (and after the first service pack comes out). Then it will be another year minimum until we start to phase it in across the company (a big financial services firm).
I think the most likely explanation is that somebody was paid a big fat bribe to ship the engines to a country who wanted them: China, Russia, Iran, India (?), etc.
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I think I see a trend here:
http://money.cnn.com/gallery/magazines/fortune/2013/05/21/5-worst-internet-acquisitions-of-all-time.fortune/index.html
TOP 5 WORST INTERNET ACQUISITIONS
Yahoo bough Broadcast.com, an online television site founded by Mark Cuban, for $5.7 billion in 1999
Yahoo acquired GeoCities for $3.6 billion
TOP 5 BEST INTERNET ACQUISITIONS
Google's acquisition of Android, the mobile operating system maker, was miniscule at an estimated $50 million. But the deal eight years ago turned out to be the foundation for Google's Android operating system now used in 75% of all smartphones and more than half of all tablets sold.
Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006. According to one analyst, it took in $2.4 billion last year
Google bought DoubleClick for $3.1 billion in 2008. The deal helped Google expand from search advertising to selling much bigger ads that appear on partner websites. DoubleClick has an expected 17.6% U.S. market share this year -- greater than Yahoo and Facebook.
A friend of the family was somewhat distraught when her son skipped college after HS and took a welding job. He was living the redneck life with a big pickup, wore a hardhat to work every day, etc. The years go by and this man goes from being an apprentice to a master welder. Then he decided to form his own welding crew with some coworkers from jobs he'd had from various jobs. Now the guy who everybody said was taking the wrong path owns his own business and makes absolutely gobs of $$. True story.
I don't think this would survive a court challenge. US federal law governs these activities, not state law. The Interstate Commerce Act has been in effect since the railroad industry in the 19th century.
This seems just like an excuse for overgrown 12 year olds to play around with explosives. I have to question the scientific merit of this "experiment".
If the university lowered graduation standards for some students, there would be a taint on the degree. But this case is just the opposite - it's holding the standards high but giving extra help to talent students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds. All of the graduates will still have passed the same courses as in previous years.
What makes these people more deserving ? Let's say a good high school school sends 100 students to a university and a really bad one sends 5. Who would you rather have - student 101 from the top high school or the 6th best student from the other ? I'd say it shows a lot more talent to be the top of your class in bad circumstances than to be in the middle of the pack when you've got everything going for you.
I'd say a course specializing in testing procedures would be excellent. I'd even go so far as to say it should be part of the required curriculum. But I'd say an entire major in this would be overkill. It might even limit future career growth.
My guess is that all of this "smart" gear is tied into the internet, using default or no passwords. It will probably take some hacker shutting down a large section of the grid for the industry to get serious about security.
American federal law prohibits policies that discriminate based on sex. By giving different leave times according to the person's gender, Yahoo is in violation. They could be subject to EEOC fines or even sued in civil court by any aggrieved parties (meaning the dads).
This nanny device could allow parents to spy on their kids driving habits. No more rally driving for them !
I'm sure the FBI / NSA has some supercomputers that could crack his computer in very short order. If they did, would the evidence be permissible in US court ? Would this be considered unreasonable search and seizure ? Is a court order needed to use cracking software like this ? There are lots of legal technicalities that need to be resolved here.
This is absolutely true. Firing an individual employee can be fraught with troublesome legal consequences for the firm. The terminated person can challenge the termination for a number of different reasons that are protected by federal law (age > 40, race, sex, religion, etc). Regardless of the merits of the case it becomes an expensive and unpleasant situation with the company's name being dragged through the mud. So I wouldn't be surprised if companies used economic downturns to "clean house" of people they would have loved to fire previously. But when done in a group and due to a cause (market crash, revenues down) the firings are much more difficult to legally contest.
Anytime you have a large population in a small area all wanting to make calls, the system will be overloaded. Capacity is built for normal use (which is probably 95 or 99% of normal call volume). When there are spikes in demand exceeding this volume, the network will not work as well (or even fail). Also if the network is physically damaged (such as Hurricane Sandy) it won't carry even normal call volumes. How is this not common sesne ?
It's no fault of social media that they are more timely and have more information than local / national news organizations. People want to get the info so they turn to whatever source they can. I don't see it as some crass opportunism to increase page count. It's simply social media sites deliver what the people want more quickly than anybody else.
Same thing in NYC when the earthquake hit - cell service was immediately overwhelmed. Even texts stopped working after a few minutes. Just too many people using their cells in a relatively small area.
If you're really a bad-ass programmer, why not just get a job in finance. Hedge funds and other investment groups pay insane amounts of money to recruit the very best guys. These jobs have long hours and don't have the longevity of other types of employment but the $$ compensates for that.
I think it's prudent to use IE at most job sites. I've had difficulties in the past using Opera. The last thing a job applicant wants is to have the resume submission process go haywire because of a non-standard browser. Since company job boards are likely designed for IE, why not use it, especially if it reduces your chances for errors ?
It seems that Yahoo is throwing the baby out with the bathwater with this decision. Surely some of their employees are productive with remote connections and would continue to be that way. And some good staff will choose to leave now because their job has become less desirable. But why suspend work-from-home rights for everyone? Is it that the vast majority of these work-from-home staff were seen as not contributing ? Or is management just not willing to do the difficult job of keeping track of its employees and finds it easier to just give an ultimatum ?
Finance. Investment Banking. M&A Lots of young guys and very few middle aged or older. Burnout is high from the crazy hours. Lots of office politics. Cutthroat culture. Some do make a fortune and don't have to work anymore. But most leave / are let go by age 35 or so. Very few ever make it to senior management.
Freedom of speech implies that the speech is true. If big donors are bribing scientists to falsify information then that's fraud.
While there's got to be some truth to this statement, I think the tremendous explosion of texting and Twitter must have contributed at least somewhat to the perceived decline in writing skills among young people.
My significant other is a big Blackberry fan and has been for years. The ability for her to type messages is the main attraction for her since she does most of her email on it. By having an interface without the keys, I think the company is overthinking it. Don't try to be like an iphone, be your own brand and excel at it. Likely this is the swan song for Blackberry.
I asked our IT Director and he said we won't even consider testing Windows 8 for a least a year (and after the first service pack comes out). Then it will be another year minimum until we start to phase it in across the company (a big financial services firm).
I think the most likely explanation is that somebody was paid a big fat bribe to ship the engines to a country who wanted them: China, Russia, Iran, India (?), etc.
Where's that politician who said people didn't need to study Algebra ??