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Ash Patel, a senior Yahoo exec and one of the company’s longest serving employees, will shortly be stepping down. His last day will be next Monday.
Patel was one of Yahoo’s first sixty employees, and joined shortly before the company went public in April 1996. There are just six current Yahoo employees who joined before Patel, [...]

Nobody is safe in the House of Murdoch, especially on the Internet side of the house. Yesterday, News Corp’s online games business, IGN Entertainment, announced layoffs to its staff. Cuts were pretty even across all parts of the company, and we’ve been able to learn that about 65 people in total lost their [...]

Brands are increasingly prominent on the App Store and Apple tends to love featuring folks like Britney Spears and Coca-Cola on the App Store’s front page. But who’s actually succeeding and which brands have managed to maintain high download numbers?
PositionApp, the app that lets you track how iPhone apps are doing on the App Store [...]

Google offers SafeSearch to stop offensive content popping up on your workplace computer or in front of the kids, and Microsoft’s rival search engine Bing has a similarly-labelled option. But while Google’s system can distinguish between images and text in videos, Bing seems to take a much less subtle approach: if a video sounds remotely [...]

We’ve witnessed publishers drooling over the Apple iPad’s form factor before the darn thing was even announced, with Time Inc. showing off a concept for Sports Illustrated and Condé Nast prepping a version of Wired for a tablet as early as November of last year.
First came Wired’s official iPad demo, and now there’s a new [...]

Every generation thinks that they are the first. The first to feel this way or that, the first to make this or that revelation, the first to do and make things that we find later have been done and made since before we could record their doing and making. But while these illusory and fleeting [...]

MyFriendsMosaic is a fun little tool that lets you create a mosaic from the profile images of your Twitter friends. All you have to do is enter your or any other Twitter user name and the tool will take care of the rest. You can download the mosaic as an image or even better, have [...]

Foursquare might’ve been last year’s breakout app at SXSW, but it looks like this year’s conference had a much more profound impact on the service’s growth. The location based network tweeted on Wednesday afternoon that it’s added “almost 100,000 users” in the past 10 days.
That’s a huge number when you consider that the year-old [...]

Supposedly pictured here is the motherboard for the Xbox 360’s next hardware revision, which hardware aficionados have pinned evidence of a console redesign.
The photos, which appeared on Chinese message board A9VG, are noteworthy for a couple reasons, as pointed out by Gamespot: It’s a smaller motherboard than ever before, it combines computer and graphics processors on [...]

If you’ve had a tough time choosing between Parallels and VMware Fusion for running Windows on your Mac, all-things-Apple site MacTech pitted the two virtualisation tools against one another in a giant faceoff. (more…)

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