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Yahoo mines recent acquisitions to boost revenue

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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's turnaround plan taps into recent acquisitions of technology, talent SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo is leaning more heavily on its recent acquisitions of technology...
    






Marissa Mayer Apologizes for Yahoo Mail Outage

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In a rare act of courageous responsibility, the CEO of Yahoo publicly apologized for the system failure at Yahoomail. She said that it was a more complex issue than what it appeared to be from the...
    






Yahoo Acquires Evntlive, A Live Concert Streaming Startup

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Evntlive has been acquired by Yahoo. The financial terms of the acquisition are still under wraps. Yet once again Yahoo has shown its consumerist drive by purchasing the rights to Evntlive, a live...

Katie Couric Introduced by Marissa Mayer

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Katie Couric joins Yahoo!TV news anchor Katie Couric is coming to Yahoo!. Katie Couric is joining Yahoo as our Global Anchor. Starting in early 2014, Katie will lead a growing team of correspondents...

Marissa Mayer: Yahoo will encrypt all user data by early 2014

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Yahoo recently announced that it will encrypt webmail by default, and today Marissa Mayer shared that the security measure will be applied across all Yahoo products "by the end of Q1 2014." In a post on the company Tumblr, CEO Mayer outlined three specific measures to protect user data:

  • Encrypt all information that moves between our data centers by the end of Q1 2014;
  • Offer users an option to encrypt all data flow to/from Yahoo by the end of Q1 2014;
  • Work closely with our international Mail partners to ensure that Yahoo co-branded Mail accounts are https-enabled.​

This news is no doubt a response to persisting questions -- and court cases -- about the scope of the NSA's information-tapping policies as they relate to internet giants such as Facebook, Google and Yahoo. As the company has previously asserted, Mayer emphasized that Yahoo has "never given access to... data centers to the NSA or to any other government agency. Ever."

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NYT Columnist David Pogue Heads to Yahoo

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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has officially announced that New York Times technology columnist and author David Pogue is coming to Yahoo. Mayer says that Pogue will lead a major expansion of Yahoo's...

Yahoo Takes Back #1 Spot From Google for US Web Traffic

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Google was the top candidate on ComScore’s list of the 50 largest Internet properties since May, 2011. But today that accolade goes to Yahoo without a shadow of a doubt. The July 2013 results speak...

Yahoo Announces New Ads and Video with Q2 Earnings

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Yahoo CEO is still active after so many acquisitions. When Yahoo displayed its earnings report for the second quarter of 2013, it was a moment of rumination for the Big “Y”. With a $386 million net...

Yahoo Acquires Xobni for More Than $30M

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Yahoo acquires Xobni on July 3. Yahoo is on its way to acquire. It looks like that Marissa Mayer has though much more on acquisitions as a first step of her job. Yahoo has already bought micro...