As if Yahoo didn’t make enough news on Monday with a blockbuster $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging and photo-sharing site Tumblr, the Internet pioneer also said it had leased office space in New York’s Times Square and unveiled a revamp of photo-sharing service Flickr.
I REALLY like what Marissa Mayer is doing over at Yahoo. They have released a sexy free weather app for iPhone. They bought the blogging service that powers my blog. Now they have started to return Flickr to its former glory; today’s redesign looks quite nice based on a quick lookover.
I thought Jerry Yang had signed Yahoo’s death certificate after the Microsoft deal failed. But Microsoft has largely failed on the web, so it was probably a better idea to poach a smart-but-neglected Google employee to turn the ship around.
As global capital becomes ever more powerful, giant corporations are holding governments and citizens up for ransom — eliciting subsidies and tax breaks from countries concerned about their nation’s “competitiveness” — while sheltering their profits in the lowest-tax jurisdictions they can find….
Some interesting data about how protected bike lanes in NYC dramatically increased retail sales of local businesses.
A new study from the New York Department of Transportation shows that streets that safely accommodate bicycle and pedestrian travel are especially good at boosting small…
World population by longitude and latitude (via World Population By Latitude, Longitude | Geekosystem)
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Well, here’s something potentially interesting: researchers at Cardiff University think they have found fossils in meteorite fragments from Sri Lanka.
The most startling claims, however, are based on electron microscope images of structures within the stones (see above). Wallis and co say that…
There are already more Android users than Windows users and by the end of 2013, it is probable that there will be more iOS users than Windows users too. If so, by the end of this year, Windows will be only the third most popular computer OS in the world.
And here, in a single image, is why we have no idea what Apple may or may not be working on, why it is useless to speculate about it, and why almost anything we can think it might be act or look like is likely wrong.
U.N. Aid Workers Distributing Food To Malnourished KFC Customers: Full Report
