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Reston-based comScore Inc.'s monthly rankings for search gives Google a 67.7 percent share of the market, unchanged from May. Microsoft's sites, including Bing, edged up 0.4 percent to 19.2 percent of core searches in the U.S., while Yahoo fell from 10 percent in May to 9.8 percent in June.

This September 12, 2013 photo illustration shows the Yahoo logo seen on a smartphone.

In this July 20, 2010 file photo, a person uses Netflix in Palo Alto, Calif. Today: Netflix's profits and revenues more than double from last year as the company tops 50 million subscriptions.

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It's not a very difficult concept to grasp for trading: sell winners when the market is overvaluing their fundamentals.

From the director of "The Devil Wears Prada," "One Chance" is the remarkable and inspirational true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night.

Yahoo's turnaround is significantly behind schedule, as Yahoo struggles to turn increased traffic and users into meaningful revenue streams.

Yahoo! has received an average recommendation of "Buy" from the thirty-nine brokerages that are currently covering the company, American Banking News.com reports .

Yahoo has been distracting shareholders and analysts ever since Marissa Mayer took office with hyper-hyped acquisitions.

Three years ago, Yahoo was in the middle of the biggest crisis the company ever had: three CEOs were appointed and replaced in a very short time; its stock price hit rock bottom, and takeover attempts were published in every newspaper and website.

's stock had its "buy" rating reaffirmed by investment analysts at Canaccord Genuity in a note issued to investors on Thursday.

With worst case now more than priced into the stock, YHOO looks a very asymmetric risk/reward on the long side.

Alibaba founder Jack Ma is now linked to a number of corporate deals, which appear to involve conflicts of interest with future Alibaba shareholders.

The SanDisk corporate headquarters in Milpitas, Calif. on Wednesday, May 21, 2014.

When do shake hands during a bathroom pitch? Pondering awkward moments at our annual pitch event, from left, Senior Technology Reporter Cromwell Schubarth, Arif Janmohamed of Lightspeed Venture Partners, Rick Yang of New Enterprise Associates, Sunil Nagaraj of Bessemer Venture Partners and Boris Silver of FundersClub.

Wrapping up this Wednesday of trading, the Dow traded up 0.44 percent to 17,135.90 while the NASDAQ jumped 0.46 percent to 4,436.65.

Maria Zhang, the Yahoo engineering executive sued for sexual harassment by one of her female employees, is striking back.

Those Sunnyvale salad days of December 1999, a single month in which Silicon Valley icon Yahoo saw its equity price astonishingly double , now seem but a distant dream.

Stocks ended mostly lower in a volatile session Tuesday. A few notable stocks were active in extended trading after reporting quarterly results.

Today: Yahoo's performance declines as display ad sales falter, but Intel backs up talk about PC revenues with strong quarter.