Yahoo's hoping to hit the proverbial two birds tonight with Axis, which combines a desktop web browser extension (your choice of Chrome, Firefox or Safari) with a mobile app on the iPad and iPhone.
Subjected not just to constant scrutiny but to deeply personal poking and twitching, the company and its two-legged resources themselves became a study: Of how a menacing axis of animal-rights zealots can nearly starve an enterprise they aim to ruin.