Here s what s on the Thursday menu.
Yahoo to replace Google as default search engine on Firefox browser. Yahoo — which will potentially get a boost in search market share — will honor Do Not Track (which grants requests by browser users not to be tracked for advertising and other purposes) on Firefox only.
Brands are wasting their time and money on Facebook and Twitter, Forrester says. The research company recommends that brands concentrate on their own sites, and use Pinterest and Instagram instead.
Watch out, Spotify? Apple reportedly will bundle Beats Music streaming service in iOS in early 2015.
Cisco and diversity: It released updated demographic numbers that show that despite it s been releasing those numbers for a while, they have stayed mostly the same. But it did name a woman, Kelly Kramer, as its CFO last week.
Speaking of Cisco, it reportedly expects to pay $188 million to Rockstar to settle patent lawsuit.
Alibaba to launch international version of its Taobao e-commerce marketplace.
Video downstream traffic during peak evening hours: Netflix at 35 percent, followed by YouTube, Amazon, Facebook. The latter two saw big gains.
The weekly Billboard 200 will include music streams and downloads starting next month.
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