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Articles tagged “yahoo”

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Flickr users react negatively to Yahoo’s changes

Whether it's Flickr users or Facebook users, people often react negatively to changes. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's decision to eliminate Flickr Pro and her diss (since retracted) of professional photographers didn't help matters. Give her credit, though, for trying to modernize some of Yahoo's -- shall we call them legacy -- services.

Flickr users react negatively to Yahoo’s changes

Media and PR

Yahoo gets serious about Flickr, with attractive storage bump for travelers

Facebook and Instagram may be the most popular way to share images you probably don't need to see, but Flickr has remained strong despite years of neglect from Yahoo and attacks from better-supported Google Plus. It's next year will be vital to its survival.

Yahoo gets serious about Flickr, with attractive storage bump for travelers

Airlines

Yahoo acquires MileWise flight-search service and shuts it down

A shakeout has been looming among sites that track rewards miles and offers mileage-related flight services. MileWise's demise is the first among several other companies that will likely fade away.

Airlines

Yahoo in talks to buy travel rewards startup Milewise

Yahoo is hungry to buy small companies and absorb in the talent, unlikely the interest is in building out the Milewise brand and service as a standalone. None of the miles/points startups -- AwardWallet, Traxo, UsingMiles, Superfly -- have broken through yet, and Milewise is in the same general category.

Online Travel

Yahoo overhauls Flickr iOS app as CEO Mayer starts to show her influence

By overhauling its Flickr iOS app, adding Instagram-like filters and photo-sharing tools, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is putting her mobile-first strategy into place.

Yahoo overhauls Flickr iOS app as CEO Mayer starts to show her influence

Media and PR

Yahoo taps Google Local’s leader Marissa Mayer for CEO after clandestine search

Google's loss of Marissa Mayer, who choreographed the Zagat acquisition, to Yahoo won't slow big plans for the the Zagat integration into Google search.