Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo and CEO since June 2007, is stepping down from the Chief Executive Officer position as soon as Yahoo find suitable person replace his position. Jerry Yang will be staying in the role of “Chief Yahoo” and maintaining a seat on the company’s board of directors.
In a statement released by Yahoo’s company Chairman Roy Bostock says: “Jerry and the Board have had an ongoing dialogue about succession timing, and we all agree that now is the right time to make the transition to a new CEO who can take the company to the next level. We are deeply grateful to Jerry for his many contributions as CEO over the past 18 months, and we are pleased that he plans to stay actively involved at Yahoo! as a key executive and member of the Board.”
After Yahoo rejecting Microsoft’s offer to acquire the company for $31/share earlier this year, Yahoo has slipped all the way to a recent low of $10.32 amidst its own internal problems and the broader economic slowdown, market believe this could be strong reason why Jerry Yang decide to leave the CEO position.
Windows 7 (formerly codenamed Blackcomb and Vienna) is the next version of Microsoft Windows and the successor to Windows Vista. Microsoft stated in 2007 that it is “scoping Windows 7 development to a three-year time frame”.
Windows 7 is hot topics recently and everyone are looking forward to the next Windows incarnation and the app demo’d below shows off what the system will be able to do. The multi-touch comes via a 3rd-party app running pre-beta N-Trig drivers on a pre-beta Windows 7 build.
The Virtual Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time is a partnership between the Palace Museum and IBM. The goal of the project is to provide the means for a world-wide audience to celebrate and explore aspects of Chinese culture and history.
The Second Life alike virtual social networking will let you learn more about China Qing’s Dynasty history without travel to The Forbidden City located at Beijing, China.
Yesterday Facebook announced that they have hit the 10 billion photo milestone. Due to every photo upload will generate 4 different image sizes, this make the 40 billion photo files, store on Facebook.
Doug Beaver provided some other interesting statistics including:
# 2-3 Terabytes of photos are being uploaded to facebook every day
# Facebook have just over one petabyte of photo storage
# they serve over 15 billion photo images per day
# Photo traffic now peaks at over 300,000 images served per second
Today is Blog Action day 2008, which i did mentioned in my earlier blog post! This year topic for Blog Action Day is “Poverty”, because of that i decide to join Kiva and donate my blog advertisement earning of the day (USD$25) and help fight poverty, wish my little help can fulfill someone dream at the other corner of this world.
I hereby sincerely invite YOU, who read this blog or forward this message to your friends and share about Kiva - the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world. Kiva helps people to fish rather than give them the fish. The loaner do NOT get any interest but the biggest profit is that you changed a life by micro-lending.
Apple have finally launched Core 2 Duo based MacBook Pros onto the world market. MacBook Pros now available for sale from all major Apple websites including Australia, Apple’s greatest chance at gaining new Mac converts has arrived.
With Intel’s Core 2 Duo currently the most powerful mainstream processor, the MacBook Pro range available with either a 2.16Ghz or 2.33Ghz processor that Apple says is 39% faster than its predecessor. Intel says 40%, perhaps Apple wanted to be the tiniest bit more conservative!
Now with the added power, running OS X 10.4 (and soon 10.5), alongside XP and Vista will be smoother, more seamless and more enjoyable than ever.
According to a latest report from Cloudmark, up to 40 per cent of new Facebook profiles could be fictitious registrations (fake profile) created by spammers and malware writers to infect end users, security firm Cloudmark has warned.
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