Yahoo! Tech is a technology news
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operated by
Yahoo!
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Former Yahoo! Tech
The site, which was the first new product from the Santa Monica, California-based Yahoo! Media Group, featured a selection of original, licensed, and
user-generated content
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, along with product ratings and reviews for thousands of tech products across 19 product categories. Plus, the site could be personalized using its "My Tech" feature, which allows users to save products that they own and would like to research in the future.
The site's original content included a weekly web-based reality show called Hook Me Up, where Yahoo! users got a tech makeover—as well as four featured "Yahoo! Tech Advisors," who blogged about how gadgets and current technology affect their lives from the four very different demographic segments (The Mom, The Techie Diva, The Working Guy, and the Boomer.) Yahoo! Tech's content partners included Consumer Reports, Wiley Publishing's For Dummies series, and McGraw-Hill; and it incorporated Yahoo!'s community, search, and shopping services.
Former Yahoo! Tech Bloggers
* Gina Hughes
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Christopher Null
Christopher Null is an American writer, film critic, and columnist. A former blogger for Yahoo! Tech, he was the editor of Drinkhacker.com, and the founder and editor-in-chief of Filmcritic.com, which operated from 1995 to 2012. In 2003, CNN cal ...
* Ben Patterson
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Becky Worley
Becky Worley (born February 4, 1971) is an American journalist and broadcaster. She is the tech contributor for ''Good Morning America'' on ABC, host and blogger for a web show on Yahoo! Tech.
Education
Worley graduated cum laude from Middleb ...
* Alexander Yoon
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Robin Raskin
Robin Raskin (born May 14, 1954) is an American writer, author, publisher, TV personality and conference and events creator best known for her ability to simplify technology for non-technologists.
Early publications
Raskin began writing about tec ...
* Dory Devlin
* Tom Samiljan
Modern Yahoo! Tech
Re-established Q1 2014,
David Pogue
David Welch Pogue (born March 9, 1963) is an American technology and science writer and TV presenter. He is an Emmy-winning correspondent for ''CBS News Sunday Morning'' and author of the "Crowdwise" column in ''The New York Times'' Smarter Livi ...
, who joined Yahoo! after being asked by CEO
Marissa Mayer
Marissa Ann Mayer (; born May 30, 1975) is an American businesswoman and investor. She is an information technology executive, and co-founder of Sunshine Contacts. Mayer formerly served as the president and chief executive officer of Yahoo!, a p ...
, and his team deliver news on the changing trends of technology in a jargon-free manner.
External links
Yahoo! Tech site"Hook Me Up"at Yahoo! TechYahoo! Tech's "Tech Advisors"A video tour of the web siteArticle in Newsweek
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20160920155807/http://www.article1.co.uk/UK-Europe-Article-Directory/interesting-yahoo-weather-feature-yahoo-service-number-uk Article in ''The Los Angeles Times
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Computer-related introductions in 2006