The axing this week of Yahoo's second-in-command sent a signal that reality is setting in for Silicon Valley sweetheart Marissa Mayer, who leads the struggling Internet pioneer. Hearts soared when Mayer was wooed away from rival Google in ...
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Microsoft is planning end-to-end encryption of its internet traffic following concerns that the company had its network security breached as part of the National Security Agency's (NSA) internet surveillance programme. The revelation, ...
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo is expanding its efforts to protect its users' online activities from prying eyes by encrypting all the communications and other information flowing into the Internet company's data centers around the world. ...
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Yahoo will encrypt all users personal data by March next year, the web firm's CEO Marissa Mayer has said. Yahoo, along with other web firms including Apple, Microsoft and Google, have been subject to thousands of data requests under the ...
The US government made 12,444 requests for data about 40,322 Yahoo users, the web firm has revealed in its first annual transparency report. The report marks a more detailed account of what world governments have requested from Yahoo, ...
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Yahoo’s logo is now a little bit sleeker, under a redesign unveiled Wednesday in keeping with the company’s reinvention efforts. The Internet company previously had a blockier-type font for its purple logo, its letters ...
Yahoo has scored higher web traffic to its portfolio of sites and services than Google, for the first time since May 2011. According to analytics company ComScore, Yahoo attracted 196.6 million unique visitors to its pages in July 2013, a ...
Tumblr, the blogging platform bought for $1bn by Yahoo in June 2013, had just $16.6m in cash when Yahoo bought it out for $990m. The company had raised $85m less than two years earlier - in September 2011 - but was fast running out of ...
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Yahoo is redesigning its corporate logo to reflect a rapidly evolving company.The new official logo to be unveiled at 9 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time on Sept. 4 will be “more reflective of our reimagined design and new experiences,” ...
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Yahoo is expanding its research division, Yahoo Labs, with a total of 50 PhD hires planned for this year as the firm looks to expand its "science-led innovation" department, which looks into technologies including big data and artificial ...
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Yahoo's profits rose by 46 percent in the second quarter, aided by nearly a dozen product launches, though sales at the company were still down. Net earnings for the quarter ended June 30 were $331 million, up from $227 million for the ...
Yahoo will acquire Qwiki, a start-up behind a mobile app for creating videos on Apple's iPhone, as it continues to ramp up its mobile offerings. Yahoo paid about $50m (£33m) for the company, according to sources close to the matter, ...
Yahoo is slimming itself down again by axing 12 of its products, part of an ongoing effort to sharpen its focus on services it thinks people need in their daily lives. The list includes AltaVista, the granddaddy of search engines, and ...
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Yahoo has received between 12,000 to 13,000 requests for user data from law enforcement agencies in the U.S. between Dec. 1 and May 31 this year, the company said Monday. The most common of these requests concerned fraud, homicides, ...
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Yahoo moved to strengthen the mobile portion of its revamped Flickr photo sharing service, acquiring the developer behind a popular photo editing app. The company said Wednesday it had purchased GhostBird Software, the company behind the ...