NEW YORK: Yahoo will close its maps page, and several other sites, as it focuses on its search business, communication tools and content...
Yahoo will also close several sites worldwide, including Yahoo Music in Canada and France, Yahoo Movies in Spain and Yahoo Autos in the UK Yahoo’s main Philippines page will also close, and users will be sent to Yahoo Singapore instead...
A lawsuit accused Yahoo of breaking a financial promise it made to Chinese dissidents almost a decade ago as penance for helping the Chinese government find and jail other activists...
, federal court by a group of Chinese dissidents, contends that Yahoo mismanaged a $17 million fund set up to provide financial aid to activists...
SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo Inc...
The paper said some buyers might be interested in Yahoo’s core web business or parts of it, while others might bid for stakes in Alibaba or Yahoo Japan...
SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo on Monday launched a website for watching Hulu television shows in the United States...
Yahoo View was described as an extension of the struggling internet pioneer's partnership with Hulu and promised recent episodes of ABC, NBC, and Fox television shows along with films, anime, and Korean drama...
SAN FRANCISCO: The board of Yahoo Inc is weighing a sale of its core Internet business when it meets this week, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters...
Yahoo's core business, which includes popular services like Yahoo Mail and its news and sports sites, could attract private equity firms, media and telecom companies or firms like Softbank Group Corp, analysts have said in the past...
SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo is trying to phase out passwords with an update to its mobile application for its email service...
Yahoo believes the new feature will be more secure because most people rely on passwords that are easy for hackers to guess...
SAN FRANCISCO: Verizon is buying Yahoo for $4...
Yahoo will be rolled into Verizon's AOL operations and CEO Marissa Mayer may be reunited with AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, who worked with her as executives at Google for years and tried unsuccessfully to convince her to combine the two companies when they both remained independent...
SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo sealed a deal on Monday to sell its core business to telecom giant Verizon for $4...
Verizon chief executive Lowell McAdam said Yahoo would be integrated into its recently acquired AOL unit to create “a top global mobile media company, and help accelerate our revenue stream in digital advertising...
Healdsburg: Microsoft Corp executives are in early talks with potential Yahoo Inc investors about contributing to financing to buy the troubled Internet company, a person familiar with the situation said...
Microsoft and Yahoo have longstanding search and advertising agreements...
NEW YORK: Yahoo’s reported willingness to search user emails to assist US government investigators has revived concerns about court-approved surveillance programs that companies aren’t allowed to disclose to the people using their services...
Last year, Yahoo modified an existing version of its email security program to flag the appearance of a digital “signature” the US had linked to a foreign terrorist group backed by another...
8 billion agreement to buy Yahoo, the New York Post reported, citing sources...
The Yahoo deal team is pushing back hard against any attempts to negotiate the price down, the paper said...
Verizon Communications Inc is close to a revised deal to buy Yahoo Inc's core internet business for $250 million to $350m less than the original agreed price of $4...
Since last year, Verizon had been trying to persuade Yahoo to amend the terms of the acquisition agreement to reflect the economic damage from two cyber attacks...
The massive theft of Yahoo user data disclosed last week came from “professional” hackers seeking to profit from the breach, according to an analysis by security researchers...
The analysis published Wednesday by the security firm InfoArmor, which claims to have seen some of the data, contrasts with Yahoo's claim that the attack was likely “state-sponsored,” but did suggest that stolen data was sold to a state-sponsored group at one...
SAN FRANCISCO: Computer hackers swiped personal information from at least 500 million Yahoo accounts in what is believed to be the biggest digital break-in at an email provider...
The massive security breakdown disclosed Thursday poses new headaches for beleaguered Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer as she scrambles to close a $4...
Yahoo is taking a $350 million hit on its previously announced $4...
8 billion sale to Verizon in a concession for security lapses that exposed personal information stored in more than 1 billion Yahoo user accounts...