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Article | 1/05/2013 Report: Yahoo drops Dailymotion deal in face of French opposition
Yahoo has scrapped plans to invest in French online video site Dailymotion, after the French government opposed the Internet giant acquiring a majorit...
Article | 25/04/2013 Yahoo's chairman steps down after a year
The chairman of Yahoo's board of directors has stepped down from that position and will leave the board entirely later this year, Yahoo said.
Article | 19/04/2013 Yahoo slims down, again, trashing Deals, SMS Alerts
Yahoo is giving itself a bit of a makeover. Earlier last week it launched two new mobile apps for email and weather; now it's ditching numerous longst...
Article | 19/04/2013 Wall Street Beat: Tech bellwethers report mixed quarter
Some of the biggest names in IT including IBM, Microsoft, Google and Intel reported quarterly earnings this week, revealing a picture of the tech sect...
Article | 18/04/2013 Yahoo launches new weather, email apps in its 'second sprint' of rebuilding
Yahoo has released two new mobile apps, for weather and email, suggesting the company may be on track toward delivering on its promise of offering use...
Article | 17/04/2013 Mobile a top priority for Yahoo in 2013, Mayer says
Yahoo wants to accelerate its development of mobile products geared toward delivery of personalized content, CEO Marissa Mayer said Tuesday, as the co...
Article | 16/04/2013 Yahoo profit jumps by 36 per cent amid a decline in revenue
Yahoo's profits rose more than 30 per cent in the first quarter, due to a variety of factors including lowered operating costs, though sales at the co...
Article | 10/04/2013 Facebook, Pandora and Twitter seize mobile ad display market
An IDC study has found sweeping changes in how mobile display advertisements are sold, with Facebook, Pandora and Twitter successfully wresting away c...
Article | 21/02/2013 Twitter implements DMARC standard to fight phishing
Twitter has implemented DMARC, a standard for preventing email spoofing, in order to make it harder for attackers to send phishing emails that appear ...
Article | 20/02/2013 EU Parliament makes more than 900 changes to data privacy law
The European Parliament's industry committee approved more than 900 amendments to proposed new data protection laws.
Article | 12/02/2013 Yahoo's Mayer says mobile mail is broken
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer thinks there are problems with checking email on a smartphone, but her company is working on a solution.
Article | 12/02/2013 Yahoo aims to strengthen mobile presence with Alike buy
Yahoo is bidding to strengthen its presence in the increasingly important mobile space with the acquisition of Alike, a location discovery app.
Article | 11/02/2013 Flickr bug makes users' private photos public
Flickr users are livid over a recent bug causing their private photos to be made public.
Article | 6/02/2013 Yahoo strikes global ad deal with Google
Yahoo has signed a global advertising deal with Google that will result in Google ads appearing on some of Yahoo's websites, the companies announced W...
Article | 31/01/2013 Email attack exploits vulnerability in Yahoo site to hijack accounts
Hackers behind a recently detected email attack campaign are exploiting a vulnerability in a Yahoo website to hijack the email accounts of Yahoo users...