Sales, Social and Tech

I picked up from Twitter that there was a Yahoo press conference yesterday and how the Yahoo head of digital marketing solutions group Vaasu Gvarasana was looking to defend the ailing online juggernaut of the dotcom era. This got me thinking of how Yahoo is being used in my family household and that could predict the future of Yahoo. The only person in my household who uses Yahoo is my mom who uses Yahoo Mail and play Yahoo Games. If a relative were to have bought a new notebook and is looking to go online, she would recommend, well,Yahoo. However, if you go one generation down, her children are either on Google's Gmail or on Facebook. There are occasional clicks to Yahoo news but only thanks to Facebook's trending news. Two generations later, my four-year-old son is able to identify both Facebook and Google's Youtube's logo on the iPad. If I were to show him the Yahoo logo, I am sure he will just swipe his hand towards Youtube because of the infinite Transf...

News have spread today about Singapore Press Holdings suing Yahoo South East Asia for "has "substantially" reproduced articles from its newspapers without proper licensing or authorization". A few friends on Facebook found examples of articles on Yahoo that may be the 23 articles that is in contention and most of them are found to be without byline. Take this article for example. Wrote Yahoo News , Speaking to The New Paper (TNP), Tan’s 54-year-old daughter, a civil servant who wanted to be known as Miss Koh, said that she hired the maid to take care of her mother. However, on Friday, Koh received a call from her tenant saying that the maid had disappeared and Tan was alone at home. When she got back, she found S$40,000 worth of jewellery and about S$20,000 in local and foreign currency missing. The Yahoo News team cited the interview to The New Paper and therefore assumes that the copyright has not been infringed. However, if this entire article is bas...