Featured Articles Yahoo may be about to divest itself of some significant Asian holdings, the New York Times is reporting today. The company's board is apparently toying with the idea of selling its rather valuable holdings in the Alibaba Group of China and Yahoo's Japanese affiliate back to their majority owners. The transaction would be worth about $17 billion, New York Times sources have said. Without a doubt, 2011 was the year of big data - and HTML5 is driving that growth by supporting the latest multimedia. For a look at some of the coolest data graphics of the year, Flowing Data recently published this round-up of the year's best data visualizations - from online dating data to show the uniqueness of cities in America to The New York Times' "Whose Size 8 Are You Wearing?" "Angry Birds" was the biggest app of 2011, followed by Facebook, according to a new study. The ranking comes as Distimo estimates there are one million apps for mobile devices now available in seven major app stores. It was also reported that Apple's App Store is the biggest of the seven app stores. But it has the slowest growth, the study said. "It was the only store not to at least double in size over the past year," according to a report on InformationWeek. Advertise With Us Become a TechZone360 columnist! Become a TechZone360 columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of communications technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TechZone360 Web site and this newsletter. Contact Erik Linask at elinask@tmcnet.com for details. |
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