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Yahoo!, or Yahoo, or just yahoo... There’s less and less to be excited about as time goes on, and Yahoo, too, has become more unenthused as its once-bright star waned over the past three decades. Once the most popular online directory and search engine on the web, Yahoo turned 30 years old last week, Jan. 30, and nobody gave a damn.Google’s Antitrust Case Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to AIYou see, Yahoo and I share a birthday, or nearly so. We were both given life in January of 1994. Back then, founders Jerry Yang…

Google says it plans to remove Canadian news links from its search results and other major products once Canada’s hotly contested Online News Act takes effect in the coming months. The bold show of force comes less than one week after Meta announced it would cut off Canadian users’ access to news links on Facebook and Instagram to protest the law. Big Tech is engaged in a high-stakes game of tech policy chicken with the Australian government. News organizations and millions of Canadian Internet users are caught in the…

The Rise of the Rest investments you extoll certainly benefited from that exuberance—and now may suffer.Some Silicon Valley venture capitalists who were focused on rising cities might pull back. But most will realize it's crazy that 75 percent of venture capital has gone to just three states over the last decade. In the next phase, those Rise of the Rest cities have an advantage because startups there tend to be more capital-efficient. They've had to be, because they can't assume they can always raise more…

Verizon Communications said on Monday it has agreed to sell its media unit, that includes Yahoo and AOL, to Apollo Global Management Inc for $5 billion (roughly Rs. 36,930 crores), as it looks to offload its digital media business.Verizon has struggled to grow its media business, declaring them nearly worthless with a $4.6 billion (roughly Rs. 33,970 crores) write-down in 2018. Bigger players such as Facebook and Google have sweeped the digital advertising market.Verizon will get $4.25 billion (roughly Rs. 31,390 crores) …