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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Watch out Dropbox - Google is coming
Google's long-anticipated
online storage service, Google Drive, should launch next week, with 5GB
of free storage space for users.
Google declined a request to either confirm or deny the authenticity of the image.
Google Drive will be competing with Amazon Cloud, Apple iCloud, Box.com, Dropbox, Microsoft SkyDrive, and other online storage services. It will be hosted at drive.google.com, though presently the URL is not functional.
Source : http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/systems/232900386
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Yahoo - cutting jobs
US internet firm Yahoo says it is cutting roughly 2,000 jobs as it
seeks to build a "smaller, nimbler, more profitable" company and reduce
costs.
"We are intensifying our efforts on our core businesses and redeploying resources to our most urgent priorities.
"Our goal is to get back to our core purpose - putting our users and advertisers first - and we are moving aggressively to achieve that goal," said Scott Thompson, chief executive of Yahoo, in a statement.
The struggling internet pioneer announced a restructuring to focus on a "select" group of core businesses and the platforms that support them.
A key focus will be the data that drives "deep" personalization for users and return on investment for advertisers, the Sunnyvale, California-based company said.
"Today's actions are an important next step toward a bold, new Yahoo - smaller, nimbler, more profitable and better equipped to innovate as fast as our customers and our industry require," Thompson said.
The company said it would notify approximately 2,000 people that their jobs have been eliminated or would be in the future. It gave no details on the timing of the layoffs.
Yahoo said it expects the workforce reduction will produce about $375 million in annualised savings.
"With a clear focus on profitability and growth, the company will be disciplined in its investments and radically simplify how it builds, launches and maintains many of its properties and products," it said.
The 17-year-old company had more than 14,000 employees at the end of 2011. It also has a large number of software contract workers whose could also be affected in the shakeup.
A Yahoo spokeswoman has said that the 14% workforce reduction was "not across the board" but that "most units have been impacted." She declined to offer further details.
Yahoo investors welcomed the news, pushing shares up 0.3% to $15.23 in morning trade in an overall declining market.
Thompson, formerly head of mobile payments firm PayPal, became chief executive in early January after months of turmoil at Yahoo, including deadlocked talks over possibly selling off the company's valuable assets in China and Japan.
Operations income was up 3.5% in 2011 to $800 million, but net earnings fell 14.6% to $1.06 billion, and earnings per share for the year fell to 82 cents from 90 cents.
A spokesperson for Yahoo in London refused to reveal how many staff it employs in Ireland, and how many jobs might be cut here as part of their plan to axe 2000 jobs worldwide.
She would only say that they currently employ 14,000 people worldwide, and that they do not break down details of their locations.
She also said that they could not comment further because they have entered into a consultation process with staff.
No spokesperson in Ireland could be contacted.
Source : RTE News 4th April 2012
"We are intensifying our efforts on our core businesses and redeploying resources to our most urgent priorities.
"Our goal is to get back to our core purpose - putting our users and advertisers first - and we are moving aggressively to achieve that goal," said Scott Thompson, chief executive of Yahoo, in a statement.
The struggling internet pioneer announced a restructuring to focus on a "select" group of core businesses and the platforms that support them.
A key focus will be the data that drives "deep" personalization for users and return on investment for advertisers, the Sunnyvale, California-based company said.
"Today's actions are an important next step toward a bold, new Yahoo - smaller, nimbler, more profitable and better equipped to innovate as fast as our customers and our industry require," Thompson said.
The company said it would notify approximately 2,000 people that their jobs have been eliminated or would be in the future. It gave no details on the timing of the layoffs.
Yahoo said it expects the workforce reduction will produce about $375 million in annualised savings.
"With a clear focus on profitability and growth, the company will be disciplined in its investments and radically simplify how it builds, launches and maintains many of its properties and products," it said.
The 17-year-old company had more than 14,000 employees at the end of 2011. It also has a large number of software contract workers whose could also be affected in the shakeup.
A Yahoo spokeswoman has said that the 14% workforce reduction was "not across the board" but that "most units have been impacted." She declined to offer further details.
Yahoo investors welcomed the news, pushing shares up 0.3% to $15.23 in morning trade in an overall declining market.
Thompson, formerly head of mobile payments firm PayPal, became chief executive in early January after months of turmoil at Yahoo, including deadlocked talks over possibly selling off the company's valuable assets in China and Japan.
Operations income was up 3.5% in 2011 to $800 million, but net earnings fell 14.6% to $1.06 billion, and earnings per share for the year fell to 82 cents from 90 cents.
A spokesperson for Yahoo in London refused to reveal how many staff it employs in Ireland, and how many jobs might be cut here as part of their plan to axe 2000 jobs worldwide.
She would only say that they currently employ 14,000 people worldwide, and that they do not break down details of their locations.
She also said that they could not comment further because they have entered into a consultation process with staff.
No spokesperson in Ireland could be contacted.
Source : RTE News 4th April 2012
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Is buying BACK LINKS bad ?
Have you recently gotten a warning from Google about having
“artificial” or “unnatural” links pointing at your site? Google says
this isn’t a fresh crackdown on link networks but rather a change from
bad links being “silently distrusted” to being more vocal about this
type of penalty.
Here is how one reads:
A Google spokesperson emailed this statement:
Source : http://searchengineland.com/google-warning-more-about-bad-link-networks-117079?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed-main
Warnings Issued
Many people have reported getting messages from Google regarding link violations. If you scan the Google Webmaster Help forums, for instance, you will see many examples of these being posted.Here is how one reads:
Dear site owner or webmaster of …. We’ve detected that some of your site’s pages may be using techniques that are outside Google’s Webmaster Guidelines.
Specifically, look for possibly artificial or unnatural links pointing to your site that could be intended to manipulate PageRank. Examples of unnatural linking could include buying links to pass PageRank or participating in link schemes.
We encourage you to make changes to your site so that it meets our quality guidelines. Once you’ve made these changes, please submit your site for reconsideration in Google’s search results.
If you find unnatural links to your site that you are unable to control or remove, please provide the details in your reconsideration request.
If you have any questions about how to resolve this issue, please see our Webmaster Help Forum for support.
Sincerely,
Google Search Quality Team
Links No Longer “Silently Distrusted”
Last month, Google appeared to take action against several blog/link networks. Are the messages going out because of that? Google told us no. Rather, it is that Google’s choosing to report penalties about bad linking issues more now than in the past.A Google spokesperson emailed this statement:
The majority of the increase in messages to webmasters is not due to messages about links. Rather, Google recently started sending messages to sites even for egregious or “blackhat” violations of our quality guidelines. The vast majority of the increase in messages is thus due to expanding the types of messages we send, not because of more warnings about links.Earlier this year, Google said that it significantly increased the number of messages they have sent through Webmaster Tools in 2012.It is true that actions on link networks have been more visible lately, but there’s an important disclaimer to that. Google has been able to trace and take action on many types of link networks; we recently decided to make that action more visible. In the past, some links might have been silently distrusted or might not have carried as much weight. More recently, we’ve been surfacing the fact that those links aren’t helping to improve ranking or indexing.
Source : http://searchengineland.com/google-warning-more-about-bad-link-networks-117079?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed-main
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