Search engines Google (GOOG), Yahoo (YHOO) and others reportedly have been ordered by a French court to scrub all search results that lead users to 16 websites where videos allegedly are being streamed illegally. A civil court in Paris handed down a Thursday ruling saying that the search engines, along with several Internet providers, should block the sites, according to Reuters. The to-be-blocked sites include allostreaming.com and
With its hiring of big-name TV journalist Katie Couric, Yahoo (YHOO) hopes to increase its online audience through original news content. Yahoo announced Monday that Couric is joining the company as global anchor for Yahoo News. Her hiring is “part of Yahoo’s ongoing commitment to re-imagine how news and information is delivered and consumed,” the company said in a press release . “Beginning in 2014, Katie will help develop Yahoo News’ coverage with a growing team of global correspondents who will report on live world events, anchor groundbreaking interviews with major newsmakers and thought leaders, and much more.” Couric will continue to host her syndicated daytime talk show, “Katie,” in addition to her new duties at Yahoo. Yahoo says it is “investing in top talent and leading industry voices,” citing recent hires of tech columnist David Pogue, Yahoo News editor in chief Megan Liberman, and national political columnist Matt Bai, all from the New York Times. After portraying Yahoo as a technology company, CEO Marissa Mayer has reverted back to the strategy of her predecessors in positioning Yahoo as a media company. When she joined Yahoo from Google (GOOG)
Businesses were hungry for the domain name sandwich.com, which Yahoo sold Thursday for $137,500 to an unnamed bidder as part of its week-long Domainapalooza sale. Yahoo was auctioning off more than 100 website domain names, but most failed to reach their reserve prices and thus weren’t sold. Only 10 domain names were sold in the auction, Domain Name Wire reported . Sandwich.com had a reserve range of $50,000 to $99,999, but the winning bidder passed that threshold to gobble it up. No word at deadline who the new owner is. But I wouldn’t be surprised if his first name was Jared . Yahoo (YHOO) acquired sandwich.com when it purchased Mark Cuban’s Broadcast.com during the dot-com bubble, Domain Name Wire said. Yahoo purchased the money-losing Broadcast.com, an early streaming audio and video service, for $5 billion in stock in July 1999. Another former Broadcast.com domain, cyberjokes.com, sold Thursday for $4,100. Yahoo sold its …