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A Frost and Sullivan award is a prestigious event that could not be anticipated due to the competitive industry and the fact that Spindle only launched the Yowzaa!! application in Q1.

July 24, 2014 - Intigua, the first company to enable software-defined operations using advanced container technology, today announced it has closed a $10 million Series B round led by new investor Intel Capital.

Yahoo has launched a finance-focused contributor network on Tumblr where billionaire investor Carl Icahn and others will post original content.

Eric Vishria is leaving his post as Yahoo Inc.'s VP of product management to become the fifth partner at venture powerhouse Benchmark.

Users of Yahoo products clicked about 3% more search advertisements in Q2 than they had in the year-earlier quarter, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company said this month.

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.

The following dates apply to today... )--In Fitch Ratings' view, the Bank of New York Mellon second quarter 2014 was yet again affected by one-time charges related to investment funds and severance.... )--Hancock Fabrics, Inc. today announced that the Company has extended the employment agreement with Steve Morgan, the Company's current President ... (more)

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.