Yahoo, one of the most successful Internet giants in later 1990s, is now becoming a company living with selling assets(offices, domain names) and holding the stocks from Alibaba. Its core business which it was proud of has been sold to Verison with $4.8 billion as disclosed in some document submitted to SEC. Now it's starting the process of changing its name to Altaba.After the acquisition, the current Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will resign from the board. But the company will still keep some valuable assets including the $35 billion worth of Alibaba's stock and Yahoo Japan. Only the company hold...

Google now is known almost by everyone who has internet access. It's the most frequently accessed search engine around the world and it provides fast speed and high quality search results. While you are using Google, have you ever wondered how the name Google comes?According to Steven Levy, the author of the book In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives.The original name for the project was named BackRub and was coded by Sergey Brin. He was thinking that web pages made their outgoing links transparent because those links were built into the code and were easily identifiable....

Google released a new smart messaging application a couple of weeks ago -- Google Allo. At first glance, it has no much difference than other mature messaging applications on the market such as What's App, Line, WeChat. It has a concise and easy to use user interface and comes with stickers, doodles, and HUGE emojis & text. But do we really need a new messaging application which is similar to others in most aspects?The answer is MAYBE. From its description, it claims it's a SMART messaging application. What brings its smartness? It's Google Assistant, a personal assistant which c...

As a company's steer holder, the CEO or founder takes plenty of pressure ordinary people even cannot imagine. They usually need to deal with different aspects of daily operation of a company including technology, business, marketing, public relationship etc. Lots of meetings, negotiations and presentations are waiting for them every day. Hence time is a precious resource for them. Let's take a look at how these CEOs spend their time in their work.1. Apple CEO Tim CookGets up at 3:45 amStarts to read and reply emails at 4:30 amGoes to gym at 5 o'clockLeaves the office very lateNo time to t...

Maybe months or years have gone planning for a startup and finally you are ready to enter into the world of small business.  Excited enough to hit the “Launch” button. As the bulk of your business is good, so the rest of it must be the same. You think like that, right? But hey, you are wrong there. You may be selling the next big thing, but it does not matter until you have frozen your brand name in the niche market and gained a decent amount of credibility. But you can do that. And for that, we have 5 hacks that can transform your startup from "good enough" to "ready to go" i...

At the Code Conference on Wednesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai expressed his thought on Google's position in China. He expressed the openness of Google to return to China."Google is in China....But Google Search is not there in China...But personally for me, I care about serving users globally in every corner. I always thought Google is for everyone, that applies to China, too. So wherever possible, we want to be in China to serve Chinese users....If we do it in a right and thoughtful way, we are definitely open to it." said Sundar Pichai. He didn't mention when Google could...

Google has a service called Transparency Report which is to examine billions of URLs per day to identify dangerous pages which may trigger downloading of malicious software. When you search a site, it will give the status of the site and also the safety details of the site if there are potential dangerous pages on the site. These details will help the site owners to identify the potential issues and fix them as early as possible,Embarrassingly when searching for Google.com, it is considered as a partially dangerous site because some pages contain malicious software. So how Googl...

In programmer's daily life, much time is spent on searching Google or StackOverflow for code snippets which can help them understand how the code works. Now there is one more option. Microsoft's Bing now adds a new feature which support code snippet search.With this new feature, you can search code snippet and execute them directly within the search results. For example, if you type "quick sort java", you will see below search result :This feature now supports a few popular programming languages including C, C++, C#, Java, PHP and Python etc. It is quite similar to the code search plugin in Vi...