Why doesn't scrolling work on the new Yahoo homepage?
Because Yahoo cares very little about what their users want. They do not even seem to be able to secure their users personal information. A hacker can take your emails and figure out what groups and areas you frequent and because you tend to use similar or the same password get access to a lot of the sights you use. As an example is your Yahoo account password the same as you Amazon account?
How do I change the default location on the weather app on MY Yahoo?
Since changing to the new My Yahoo, the current location on the weather app says it is Sunnyvale, CA. I live in Sparta, Michigan. I have never been to Sunnyvale nor California at all. (I have since been informed that the default location is Sunnyvale because that is Yahoo HQ.) I go to the locations page on my account settings and the current location says it is undetected. I click on detect location and the response is, 'could not detect." I type Sparta, MI into the 'Favorites' box which then appears at the bottom of the weather app. In response to this same question previously posed, I was given this advice: "To change the default location to Sparta, Michigan, enter Sparta, Michigan in the SEARCH box, the press '+|SAVE.' EDIT 'My Locations' (left side of the screen) to remove any locations you don't want and set the default location for the one you do. " Forgive my incompetence with home computers but, what search box? If I type my location into the search box at the top of My Yahoo page there is no '+lSAVE' button that I can see, nor can I find a 'My Locations' on the left of the screen on My Yahoo page nor the Yahoo home page so I can reset the default location. Can these instructions be clarified for a sad and lame, technologically impaired soul?
How do I restore my accidentally deleted contacts from an Android phone?
Basically, when you use a android phone, you must be signed in to the phone using one of your google account. Google helps you backup and restore your contacts very easily just in few steps. Before, you might want to try restoring, I would suggest you to login to your gmail account on a PC and go to the "Contacts" Menu as shown in the figure below.You should find all your contacts in this window.Now go to your phone, follow the steps:1. Go to settings.2. Go to Accounts.3. Select Google.4. You should be able to see all your google accounts here. 5. Make sure you have the same account that holds your contacts is configured here. (Otherwise add it using "Add Account" option)6. Now you can synch all or any of your desired applications as below.7. Make sure you have the Contacts Sync button on as seen in the above pic.8. Now, press the 3 dots in the top of the above screen, and select Sync Now.9. You should be able to see all your missed contacts, are getting synched from your gmail account. Now, what if you do not have your contacts in your gmail account?If you have them in form of soft copy (any file) you can import it in to your gmail contacts as CSV file. and then sync them up easily to your mail.So, I recommend all of you to enable auto sync in your android device with your google account and make sure the contacts are synched by checking in the gmail contacts. Beacuse the contacts are sometimes invaluable to us. Let me know, if you want any more help in this.
Where is my favorites list?
If you're talking about Bookmarks on Yahoo! Toolbar, you can find your answer on the links below. How to add or remove a button http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/toolbar... How to change the order of buttons http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/toolbar... Using Yahoo! Toolbar http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/toolbar... If you're talking about Favorites on Internet Explorer 7, click the gold star on the left of the toolbar, or press Alt + c on your keyboard to get your Favorites, click the gold star with the green plus sign to add to favorites, and if you want the Menu Bar with File, Edit, View, Favorites, Tools, and Help to show, right click a gray blank space on the toolbar, and on the popup menu click Menu Bar. If you only need the Menu Bar with File, Edit, View, Favorites, Tools, and Help to appear temporarily just press the Alt key on your keyboard. This way your toolbar doesn't take up as much of your screen. If you want it to stay permanently, right click on a gray blank space on the toolbar and click Menu Bar.
What went wrong with Yahoo? It was once worth almost $125 billion, but today sold to Verizon for $5 billion.
There is no one single reason that Yahoo "went wrong", which I assume means that they aren't seen as one of the top couple of internet companies like they once were. There are product reasons, strategic reasons, and cultural reasons. Some top of mind examples though:Focusing so much for years on Panama (Google Adwords competitor) and search in general, when they ended up losing to Google and eventually outsourcing this to Microsoft.Becoming too unfocused. Yahoo tried to do everything and triggered the famous Peanut Butter Manifesto from Brad Garlinghouse that summarized this problem well.The shift from a desktop world where everyone used home pages to a mobile and social world. Yahoo failed to build their own successful mobile and social products or to acquire any. Yahoo got too bloated, and nobody would ever make the cuts needed to both headcount and its products/properties.Buying Flickr, then letting it languish. Buying Flickr for $35 million was a bargain when you see how huge social photos are today. They could have turned Flickr into the next Facebook or Instagram and instead didn't invest properly in it.Failing to acquire Google and then Facebook. Yahoo had opportunities to buy both of these companies when it was clear they were going to be big successes and instead wouldn't pay what was needed. For example, they had a deal to buy Facebook for $1.1 billion pretty much accepted, then Yahoo's earnings came out and the value of the deal dropped to 800M due to stock compensation and Zuckerberg balked when Yahoo wouldn't change the deal to put the price back up. Think about the value of Facebook today and that Yahoo didn't acquire them over a $300M difference.Leadership changes. Looking at companies like Google and Facebook you'll see that the same leadership has essentially been in place the whole time. Yahoo has had a shifting cast of CEOs and executive teams that has never provided a longer term vision and execution path to take shape.Acceptance of lower quality employees. By the time I worked at Yahoo from 2007-2010, there were still a ton of great A-quality people there, but there were also a lot of B or C-quality people who were not outstanding at their work. This starts to eat away at the company and make the A-players go work elsewhere.There are more reasons, but these provide a good summary...
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