Axis: an appli Yahoo universal to improve the Web search

Yahoo tries to interfere in browsers Internet Office, but also on mobile devices, with Axis, its new search plugin...

Yahoo has launched an application - mobile and desktop - called Axis, that portal evokes literally as an Internet browser, even if on Office she specifically is a plugin for the popular browsers. A plugin which provides a research module carrying the engine of Yahoo - Bing - and proposes including display very visual lists of results.

Another point put forward by Yahoo, the synchronization. Indeed, on all devices on which the user will be logged to Axis with the same account, it will find its home page and the search history, and his favorite sites. Axis also offers a built-in Photo Viewer or interactions with Pinterest. Nothing fundamentally new, but the editor insists on implementation facilitated by the mere use of a member Yahoo account.

The Group explains its choice of quite clear way, with comments that make sense. Indeed, although said Yahoo know that Internet users are generally attached to their browser and its performance. They use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Internet Explorer, they are are usually attached by force of habit. Therefore, propose a new Internet browser did not have much sense and seemed to be a tough decision to impose. At the time, Yahoo chose offer a plugin compatible with the major existing browsers, allowing users to easily access the functions he proposes, but without changing browser.

Idem, in incorporating a small floating panel in the lower left corner of the screen, Yahoo would step disturb the traditional navigation users, but simply be present with Axis on their system, inviting them when they want to launch a research with him. Small flat, the mobile application is available on iOS for the moment, and it will have to wait a little to see it land on Android. Rest the first return of American journalists are good, evoking Axis as an excellent research tool and a valuable aid to navigation.

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A video of presentation of Axis by Yahoo (in English)

CVgate: the Yahoo CEO resigned and four members of the Council

Yahoo loses its new CEO, forced him to resign for having embellished his CV to a degree that he never received...

Last week, Scott Thompson, recently arrived at the head of Yahoo, apologized to its employees for bidonné a line of his CV (a degree of computer engineer that he never received) and asked them to remain focused on their tasks to help the group meet according to the plans he had to draw (including the dismissal of 2000 people).

Today, this case of "CVgate" has his last rebound, as Scott Thompson comes - in the storm - to resign from his position as CEO. The former President of PayPal (a subsidiary of eBay) will therefore held only a few months in the highest responsibilities in Yahoo. Several shareholders claimed his head after the sham.

Result, it is Ross Levinsohn, currently in charge of the domestic media, which temporarily takes CEO at Yahoo headquarters at the United States. Remains that Scott Thompson leads in its wake four other leaders, also pushed towards the exit from this scandal. As could be expected, Patti Hart, Member of the Board of Directors of Yahoo and responsible for the recruitment of Thompson is also his suitcases, and three other members of the "board": VJ Joshi, Arthur Kern and Gary Wilson. Daniel Loeb, the pattern of Third Point, the investment fund that owns 5.8% of the capital of Yahoo and claimed the first the resignation of Scott Thompson, made at the time of its entry to the Council. Two of the Allied of the latter are also join him, Harry Wilson, and Michael Wolf.

Yahoo will be looking for a new CEO. After the dismissal by telephone of Carol Bartz, this is another case which deprives the group for a genuine new beginning. Unless the new CEO follow road map towards growth paths by Scott Thompson, what is not said, each officer with his approach.