Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Yahoo! Mail Takes A New Gmail Like Look!

The revamped new look of Yahoo! mail. The changes had been steady and coming since this year and the new update was launched on Tuesday which made the design more fluidic and appealing. Yahoo, based on the much popular demands have added in more changes which are making it more close to the competitor gmail.

The new design allows users to manage mails based on topics, a one place hold for all your chats and photos. Combined with a feature that will help you change the design of the mail interface in a click.

The similarities to Gmail probably aren't coincidental. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer helped design some of Gmail's features while she was a top executive at Google Inc. Since its debut nearly a decade ago, Gmail has steadily grown into the world's most popular email service.

Unlike google, Yahoo has opted for a side display of mails so that you can view the full message on to your right side and see the list of messages on the left. The calender page has also got revamped to more like google calender feel.

What we lack to see is the fluidic change over from mail to calender as in Gmail. But since this is just the start of it, we will see further improvements coming on to the interface in coming months.

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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Yahoo Has More Than 800 Mil. Users, 20% Increase Says CEO

San Francisco: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer says the Internet company now has about 800 million worldwide users, a 20 percent increase since she was lured away from Google 15 months ago to steer a turnaround.
The gain disclosed Wednesday at a technology conference in San Francisco is the latest evidence of the progress that Yahoo Inc. is making under Mayer's leadership.

The Sunnyvale, California, company's stock has nearly doubled since Mayer came aboard, though she and analysts say that gain primarily stems from the value of Yahoo's holdings in China's rapidly growing Alibaba Group.

Mayer says the figure for the 800 million Yahoo users doesn't include the traffic that the company has picked up from its $1.1 billion acquisition of Internet blogging service Tumblr earlier this year.

Despite the increased traffic, Yahoo is still struggling to boost its online advertising revenue — the main way that the company makes money. In recent quarters, Yahoo's ad revenue has been barely rising while Google and another rival, Facebook Inc., have been thriving.

Mayer says she believes it her strategy for accelerating Yahoo's revenue growth will require at least three years to unfold.

Yahoo's stock shed 29 cents Wednesday to close at $29.19.

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