10 things that won't survive the recession
it seems to me that this recession will be something unprecedented. One reason is that that there was no Internet or mobile technology in the 1930s. That means individual people and companies have very low cost, high efficiency alternatives for doing a wide ranging of activities. That will accelerate the demise of those things fated to be replaced anyway. Here are 10 things that I believe won't survive the recession.
2008: Yahoo's year to forget
For Jerry Yang, 2008 was going to be the year when Yahoo's long-awaited technology and business turnaround began in earnest. Instead, the year brought two big rounds of layoffs, an embarrassing exodus of high-profile managers, disappointing financials, a tanking stock price, free-falling employee morale and little or no advances in key areas, like search usage and search advertising. Oh yeah, and yet another corporate reorganization that many cynically viewed as more spinning of the wheels.
Yahoo to scrub personal data after three months
Yahoo said Wednesday it will anonymize most of the data it collects about people's Web searches after three months, a move that puts further pressure on competitors Google and Microsoft to do the same.
Yahoo bolsters mail app
Yahoo is pushing forward its Open Strategy initiative with improvements to Yahoo Mail and other services.
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