Yahoo: News
03 May 2024
AppleGoogle paid Apple $20 billion for default search engine status
Google reportedly spent an enormous $20 billion in 2022 to maintain its position as the default search engine on Apple's Safari for iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices.
23 Feb 2024
Layoff NewsVice Media, Yahoo's Engadget announce job cuts
In a fresh round of layoffs in the media sector, Vice Media and Yahoo-operated Engadget are making big changes by cutting jobs and reorganizing their structures.
07 Apr 2021
FacebookNewsBytes Briefing: Mark Zuckerberg gives off mixed Signals, and more
People are best judged by their actions and not their words, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is a resplendent example.
06 Apr 2021
Social MediaRIP Yahoo Answers, will permanently shut down on May 4
After a storied history of 15 years, Yahoo Answers is shutting down.
24 Mar 2021
VerizonAll you need to know about Yahoo Plus
One of the older companies associated with the internet, Yahoo has soldiered on after acquisition by Verizon in 2016. Axios reports that Verizon now wants to expand the Yahoo brand with a variety of subscriptions offered under Yahoo Plus.
02 Dec 2020
Rishi KapoorSushant Singh Rajput tops Yahoo's most searched personalities' list
Late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput has topped Yahoo's annual list of the most searched personalities of the year.
20 Feb 2020
AmazonLarry Tesler, inventor of cut-copy-paste, passes away at 74
Larry Tesler, the computing icon who invented famous interface tools - cut, copy, and paste, passed away on Monday.
06 Feb 2020
LinkedInMeet Ryan Roslansky: The new CEO of LinkedIn
After International Business Machines (IBM), LinkedIn, the social network for working professionals with over 600 million users, is witnessing a major management change.
17 Oct 2019
RedditYahoo is erasing some part of internet history: Details here
After nearly two decades of operation, Yahoo has decided to pull the plug on its Groups website.
02 Oct 2019
SecurityFormer Yahoo engineer hacked thousands of accounts for nudes
In a shocking case, a software engineer who used to work at Yahoo has pleaded guilty to accessing and searching thousands of accounts on the service.
20 Jun 2018
MAUYahoo Mail revamps mobile website, launches Android Go app
Yahoo Mail has come up with two major updates: a new mobile app for Android Go and an updated mobile website.
09 Jun 2018
India#EndOfAnEra: After 20years, Yahoo Messenger to be killed in July
It's the end of an era. After 20 long years of service, Yahoo Messenger will finally be put to rest on July 17.
20 Apr 2018
Travis KalanickFormer Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer setting up new start-up incubator
Former CEO of Yahoo! Marissa Mayer is setting up a new start-up incubator called Lumi Labs.
08 Dec 2017
IndiaTop tech terms India searched on Yahoo in 2017
Yahoo India has announced the "2017 Year in Review" that offers a sneak peek at the trending topics, events, and newsmakers that Internet users searched the most for this year.
04 Oct 2017
Data LeakAll 3bn Yahoo accounts hacked during 2013 data breach
Tech giant Yahoo has revealed that all three billion of its accounts were hacked during a 2013 data theft.
28 Jun 2017
Verizon CommunicationsYahoo! will stop accepting AT&T email addresses from June 30
It appears that Yahoo! accounts after June 30 will no longer be accessible via AT&T email addresses or any email addresses belonging to its subsidiaries.
14 Jun 2017
Google MapsThe legacy of Marissa Mayer
After a year of negotiations, Verizon completed its acquisition of Yahoo for $4.48 billion.
11 Oct 2016
United States of AmericaThree-day weekends might do the world a favour
US based economists David Rosnick and Mark Weisbrot, have argued that three-day weekends could significantly reduce energy consumption and reduction in carbon emissions.
