On April 2nd, 2024 with 14 comments
Yahoo is acquiring Artifact, the AI news app from Instagram's co-founders that failed to make it big on its own. The Verge reports: The two sides declined to...
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On December 12th, 2019 with 44 comments
Verizon is laying off 150 U.S. staffers this week across multiple teams in the organization. CNN reports: Verizon Media employs around 10,500 people [across...
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On August 12th, 2019 with 18 comments
According to The Wall Street Journal, Verizon has agreed to sell its blogging website Tumblr to the owner of popular online-publishing tool WordPress. Tumblr...
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On January 29th, 2019 with 21 comments
A U.S. judge rejected Yahoo's proposed settlement with millions of people whose email addresses and other personal information were stolen in the largest data...
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On December 11th, 2018 with 100 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Verizon is conceding defeat on its crusade to turn a patchwork of dot-com-era businesses into a thriving...
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On June 12th, 2018 with 29 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Yahoo's U.K. limb has finally been handed a $334,300 (250,000 GBP) fine for the 2014 cyber attack that...
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On April 22nd, 2018 with 61 comments
On Friday, Silicon Valley photo-sharing and storage company SmugMug announced it had acquired Flickr, the photo-sharing site created in 2004 by Ludicorp and...
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On December 6th, 2017 with 112 comments
Mark Wilson writes: Mozilla and Yahoo have started a legal spat about the deal that existed between the two companies regarding the use of the Yahoo search...
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On June 13th, 2017 with 126 comments
An anonymous reader shares a TechCrunch article: After Yahoo shareholder approval last week, Verizon today announced that it has finally closed its acquisition...
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On January 23rd, 2017 with 12 comments
wiredmikey quotes a report from SecurityWeek: Yahoo said Monday that the closing of a $4.8 billion deal to sell its core internet assets to U.S. telecom titan...
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On January 5th, 2017 with 70 comments
A senior executive of Verizon said on Thursday the company was unsure about its planned acquisition of Yahoo's internet business. From a report on Reuters: "I...
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On December 21st, 2016 with 65 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Yahoo Inc's secret scanning of customer emails at the behest of a U.S. spy agency is part of a growing push...
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On October 14th, 2016 with 27 comments
Verizon has been growing wary of their pending $4.83 billion acquisition deal of Yahoo ever since the technology company revealed a massive data breach...
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On October 10th, 2016 with 205 comments
After it was revealed that Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence agencies, now's as good of time as any to leave Yahoo Mail. However,...
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On October 7th, 2016 with 77 comments
As if Yahoo's reputation couldn't get any worse after the company revealed a massive data breach that occurred in 2014, compromising at least 500 million...
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On September 29th, 2016 with 34 comments
itwbennett writes from a report via CSO Online: After Yahoo raised eyebrows in the security community with its claim that state-sponsored hackers were...
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On August 2nd, 2016 with 65 comments
An anonymous reader writes from a report via Softpedia: A listing was published today on TheRealDeal Dark Web marketplace claiming to be offering data on over...
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On July 24th, 2016 with 80 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from PC Magazine:
Just what kind of email retentions powers does Yahoo have? According to a policy guide from the...
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On July 19th, 2016 with 130 comments
tomhath quotes a report from Fool: Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer tried to emphasize the progress that the company has made. "We continue to make solid progress...
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On June 20th, 2016 with 21 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Tumblr plans to compete in the fast-crowding live video space, according to a promotional webpage unearthed...
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On May 20th, 2016 with 392 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Moody's Investors Service released an analysis Friday that shows Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Cisco Systems, and Oracle are sitting...
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On May 13th, 2016 with 203 comments
An anonymous reader shares an article on Mercury News: In yet another sign of a slowdown in the booming Bay Area economy, tech layoffs more than doubled in the...
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On March 25th, 2016 with 57 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Google's efforts to keep users safe might be forcing other email providers to make better security...
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On March 9th, 2016 with 169 comments
An anonymous reader writes: MIT researchers have created an algorithm that analyzes web pages and creates dependency graphs for all network resources that need...
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On February 20th, 2016 with 141 comments
mikejuk writes: In its recent earnings call, Yahoo revealed plans to cut its workforce by 15% -- around 1,600 employees by the end of the year. Yahoo Labs is...
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On December 31st, 2015 with 152 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Last week, Yahoo became the latest company promising to alert users who it suspected were being targeted by state-sponsored attacks...
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On December 1st, 2014 with 237 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla today launched Firefox 34 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Major additions to the browser include a built-in video...
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On August 27th, 2013 with 172 comments
coastal984 writes "Yahoo! launched their latest redesign over the past couple of weeks, revamping their utilitarian Yahoo! Sports section with a new-age,...
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On May 19th, 2013 with 142 comments
TechCrunch reports that Yahoo's string of acquisitions may soon include Tumblr: "The Wall Street Journal is now reporting via Twitter that the rumored $1.1...
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On March 26th, 2013 with 266 comments
Nerval's Lobster writes "When a major IT company pays a reported $30 million—roughly 90 percent of it in cash—for an iOS app with no monetization...
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