Yahoo has posted a first quarter earnings decline of 20% to $311.6 million. In a trading update yesterday, the company added that revenue from display advertising increased by 2% to $409 million. Additionally, first quarter group revenue ...
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Yahoo was the most popular online venue visited from US desktop computers in December as modern lives increasingly revolve around using mobile devices to connect with the Internet. Yahoo continued to hold a crown it claimed in August of ...
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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 ...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his Yahoo counterpart Marissa Mayer have both commented on the NSA Prism revelations, insisting that both web firms did as much as they could to resist governmental demands to reveal personal data of users. ...
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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 redesigned its Sports, Movies, Music, TV, omg, Games and Weather sites with a more consistent look and some personalized tools, the company said Tuesday. Yahoo is positioning the sites' redesign, described in a?blog post, as a ...
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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 has bought ad tech startup Admovate to grow its mobile advertising sales and provide a stronger channel for personalized display advertising. Terms of the deal, yet another in a major buying spree for Yahoo this year, were not ...
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