Not a joke: Yahoo! to launch its own web browser tonight

[JMH]

Yahoo! is a company who has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons the past few weeks after it hired a CEO who lied on his resume. After dealing with that fiasco, the company has a new strategy to stem the losses it has been incurring, create a new web browser.

Yes, Yahoo! is building a browser (called Axis) and it will be shown off really soon, as soon as tonight possibly if the source material is correct. An email was sent out, not that long ago, that outlines the strategy. Launch.co got their hands on it and you read the entire letter here; pasted below is an excerpt from that memo:....

http://www.neowin.net/news/not-a-jo...&utm_campaign=Feed:+neowin-main+(Neowin+News)

 

[Corrine]

Not only did it not go over well in the press . . .

Yahoo, not content with recent headlines over the ousting of its resume-tweaking chief executive, launched a new ‘browser’ for mobile and the desktop.

But it couldn’t even do that right without fouling it up. Yahoo could probably trip over a chain in the street and unwittingly pull the plug on the Great Lakes — it’s that unlucky.

Yahoo launches Axis 'browser' and fumbles it disastrously | ZDNet

but also Yahoo leaks its own private key via new Axis Chrome extension | Naked Security!

In a move which is likely to take away some of the shine from the new product's launch, Yahoo mistakenly bundled its private key inside the Chrome extension version of Axis.

Oops.

Oops is right.

 

[Temmu]

that is an incredibly inept slip by yahoo. you'd think an internet company would know better. yikes!