Jerry Yang leaves Yahoo as Wikipedia blacks out

Jan 18, 2012
Big tech news today as a co-founder of Yahoo jumps ship. Meanwhile, Wikipedia is fighting against SOPA by blacking out its site for 24 hours.

The true costs of online piracy

Jan 18, 2012
Today, Wikipedia is blacking-out its site to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act. But are the costs of online piracy as high as some claim?

PODCAST: Yahoo! or Yahoo?

Jan 18, 2012
News of Jerry Yang's exit from Yahoo after 17 years may mean that the company will have to fine tune its vision. Home Depot has just announced it's going to hire 70,000 seasonal workers over the next few months, but how many of those temps will land permanent jobs? Plus, we look at the true costs of online piracy.
The Yahoo homepage is seen on a computer screen in Washington on October 19, 2010.
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SOPA might be dead anyway, regardless of Wikipedia protest

Jan 17, 2012
A lot of attention is going to be paid in the next 48 hours to Wikipedia’s one-day blackout in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act. But it might be a little bit like protesting Adam Sandler’s Jack & Jill winning the Oscar for Best Picture: probably not going to happen anyway. Rep. Darrell Issa […]

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