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Yahoo shuts down 10 mobile apps

Yahoo is decommissioning 10 of its mobile applications, most optimized for Apple's ( NASDAQ:AAPL ) iOS and Google's ( NASDAQ:GOOG ) Android. The apps facing the ax are Yahoo Answers (Android), AppSpot

Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang resigns

Jerry Yang, the co-founder of Yahoo! ( Nasdaq: YHOO ), is leaving the company just as Scott Thompson settles into his role as the Internet company's new CEO. Yang (Image courtesy of Yahoo!)

ComScore: Online video viewing time up 59% in December Y-o-Y

More than 182 million Americans watched online video in December, consuming a whopping 43.5 million videos, about 23.2 hours of viewing each. The numbers are significantly above those from a year

Yahoo teams with Tom Hanks for multi-platform 'Electric City'

Yahoo is partnering with Tom Hanks' Playtone production company and multimedia firm Reliance Entertainment to launch Electric City, an interactive animated series that heralds Yahoo's first foray

Yahoo names PayPal chief Thompson to CEO post

Almost four months after removing Carol Bartz from her role as CEO, Yahoo has finally named her replacement: Scott Thompson, who previously served as president of eBay-owned digital payments platform

Google, Facebook dominate Opera Mini mobile web traffic in 2011

Google.com ( NASDAQ:GOOG ) was the most popular mobile website of 2011 among Opera Mini browser users, beating out Facebook for the second consecutive year, browser company Opera Software reports.

Yahoo enters mobile messaging with Hub

Yahoo expanded its mobile presence today to include mobile messaging. The company debuted a beta version of Hub, a free device-agnostic texting app available through Google's ( NASDAQ:GOOG ) Android

Miso raises $4M from Google, Hearst; social TV provider eyes cable deals

Miso, the social TV platform provider that has deals with DirecTV ( Nasdaq: DTV ) and AT&T's ( NYSE: T ) U-verse TV, said it raised $4 million in financing from Khosla Ventures, Google Ventures (

New player reportedly joins bidding for Yahoo

Yahoo ( Nasdaq: YHOO ), which has been in a self-induced state of limbo since firing CEO Carol Bartz in September and putting itself up for sale, may have a new bidder. Reuters reports that Thomas H.

Study: 80% of mobile device users multitask while watching TV

Eighty percent of web-enabled mobile device owners say they multitask while watching television, relying on smartphones and tablets to communicate with friends and family, look up content related to