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Will Online Advertising Ever Be Accurate?

Colin Strong | Posted 09.04.2013 | UK Tech
Colin Strong

We are used to the idea that online advertising is increasingly personalised and amended in real time to target those individuals with a profile most likely to purchase the product. But what if the information that is held on consumers is, shall we say, a little shaky?

The Week That Was: Teen Dream

Carla Buzasi | Posted 31.03.2013 | UK
Carla Buzasi

We've all got to start somewhere, and if Coding for Dummies is where Summly app creator Nick D'Aloisio learnt the basics, I'd suggest Michael Gove gets it on the curriculum quick-smart. Erase that, I'd get Nick himself on the curriculum. With a triple-dip recession on the horizon, Kim Kardashian the woman most little girls want to grow up to be and recent graduates still struggling to find full-time employment, shining the spotlight on the country's brightest start-ups and entrepreneurs seems such an obvious idea. Even the current government might chance upon it.

Teenage App Creator Earns 'Tens Of Millions' In Yahoo Deal

Huffington Post UK / PA | Posted 26.03.2013 | UK Tech

A teenager has sold an app he designed to Yahoo in a deal believed to be worth tens of millions of pounds. Nick D'Aloisio created the tool at his h...

Meyer's Misguided Attempt to Turn the Flexi-Working Clock Back

Geraldine Gallacher | Posted 05.05.2013 | UK
Geraldine Gallacher

I was taken aback last week, to put it mildly, by the CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Meyer's take on flexible working. It struck me as being an enormously retrograde step, based on mistaken views, and doubly puzzling coming both from the boss of a technology firm and someone who has at other times been a beacon for equality and forward thinking.

In Defence of Flexible Working: The Fuzzy-Slippered Rebuttal

Monica Parker | Posted 30.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Monica Parker

A culture of "presenteesim", the old-fashioned notion that to be productive you must be physically present in the office, is one of the most counterproductive, uncreative, and costly management approaches in practice.

Sheryl Sandberg Says 'Lean In' and Marissa Mayer says 'Come In'

Shannon Edwards | Posted 29.04.2013 | UK Tech
Shannon Edwards

Frankly I hope that, in the future, we can create a work ecosystem that is flexible, supportive, focused on results and values all different backgrounds and skills. One woman (or man)'s 'having it all' is another's worst nightmare.

Remote Workers at Yahoo! - Back to the Office or Else

Kevan Hall | Posted 27.04.2013 | UK Tech
Kevan Hall

Not all jobs are suitable for this kind of working. If your work requires close and frequent synchronous (same place, same time) cooperation with colleagues, then remote working may introduce significant delay unless it can all be achieved through technology.

Cybergeddon: Don't Keep Calm, But Carry On!

Dr Lynette Nusbacher | Posted 16.12.2012 | UK Tech
Dr Lynette Nusbacher

One of the great weaknesses of Western preparation for the strategic future of cyberspace is that we lack a coherent narrative for ordering and unders...

Yahoo Removes 'R' From Logo, Internet Goes Wild

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 17.11.2012 | UK Tech

Yahoo! is not alone among internet giants for incorporating awkward punctuation into their logos (*cough* Aol. *cough*) - but until now it was one of ...

IT: Why Do We Not Have More Female Representation?

Sheila Flavell | Posted 16.09.2012 | UK Tech
Sheila Flavell

. It seems to me that the subject taking over the technology headlines is not that Yahoo! has hired a new CEO, but more the fact that she is a woman succeeding in an extremely male dominated field. Mayer is now one of three female leaders in Silicon Valley joining Meg Whitman (CEO, Hewlett-Packard) and Sheryl Sandberg (COO, Facebook).

Could Facebook 'Disappear' By 2017?

The Huffington Post UK | Ted Thornhill | Posted 05.06.2012 | UK Tech

Mark Zuckerberg’s world-dominating web company Facebook could disappear within five years according to an industry expert. Ironfire Capital found...

Facebook Versus the Shareholder Spring

Lucy P. Marcus | Posted 18.07.2012 | UK Tech
Lucy P. Marcus

Over the years Facebook will need to grapple with many issues that affect the development of the company and the lives of its users, from growth to innovating ahead of the curve, and from privacy to social responsibility.

Leave it if You Like, but Don't Fake

Preetam Kaushik | Posted 14.07.2012 | UK Tech
Preetam Kaushik

So, can degrees be written off? May or may not be! Degrees may still matter overall, but the tech world may define a new trend in hiring where it is more your ability to do what you are supposed to rather than hire people with heavy baggage of degrees.

Yahoo Boss Steps Down After He Lied On His CV

The Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 14.05.2012 | UK Tech

Yahoo chief executive Scott Thompson is to step down after it was revealed he had lied on his CV. The controversy came to light more than a week ag...

Huffington Post And Yahoo 'MailOnline's Main Competition'

Posted 09.05.2012 | UK

The MailOnline's "main competition" is AOL/The Huffington Post and Yahoo, editor Martin Clarke told the Leveson Inquiry on Wednesday. Speaking to t...

WATCH: In Your 30s? Then Don't, Whatever You Do, Click On This Rather Funny Video

Huffington Post UK | Alastair Plumb | Posted 19.04.2012 | UK Comedy

Some jokes are a little too close to the knuckle - just ask Frankie Boyle for details. This one, though not on purposefully controversial stand-up com...

Yahoo Sues Facebook

PA | Melanie Hick | Posted 12.05.2012 | UK Tech

Yahoo is suing Facebook over patents, weeks before the social-networking heavyweight is due to cash in with its initial public offering of stock. Y...

What has Been the Impact of Digital on the Art of Storytelling?

Krane Jeffery | Posted 08.01.2012 | UK Tech
Krane Jeffery

The digital age has contributed to shorter attention spans, more consumer control, freedom and choice, as well as an industry reliant on data and technology. How has this impacted the art of storytelling? And does it matter?

Tech Industry Needs Female Quotas Now

Sue Black | Posted 08.11.2011 | UK Tech
Sue Black

A recent 'Women and Work' survey of three thousand women by Marie Claire magazine and Everywoman found that sexism is still rife in the workplace and that women believe they are disadvantaged compared to men when it comes to pay, promotion and age.