In light of the recent security breach that exposed around 450,000 Yahoo users’ e-mail addresses and passwords, security firm Sucuri has set up a tool you can use to check whether or not your account information has been …
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Yahoo’s Axis: Visual Search, an iOS Browser and No ‘Ten Blue Links’
When you talk to folks from Yahoo about the subject of search engines, they tend to be a tad defensive. Since 2010, Yahoo search has been a repackaged variant of Microsoft‘s Bing. Some people think that means that Yahoo is out of …
Grading How Well Companies Are Cooperating with ‘Do Not Track’
Remember “Do Not Track,” the initiative in the White House’s Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights that called for an opt-out button for users who don’t want to be tracked by different sites? Well, it’s still alive and it has an …
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Match the Yahoo Memos with the Pollyannaish Sentiments, 2007-2012
At Yahoo, the sun will always come out tomorrow. Or at least that’s my conclusion after reviewing some of the memos that have leaked from the company after its various difficult transitions over the past five years, culminating …
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Yahoo Mess: More Proof That Media Companies Don’t Know Anything About Dealing with the Media
And so it ends. This morning, All Things D’s Kara Swisher — whose stories about Yahoo’s crisis over the widely-circulated but false statement that its new CEO Scott Thompson earned a degree in computer science have made for …
Tale of Two Techs: Yahoo CEO Mess Deepens as AOL Rides Patent Sale
Yahoo and AOL are both former tech/media darlings in the midst of turnaround efforts, but lately they’ve had a striking divergence of fortune.
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Yahoo Sues Facebook in Patent Shakedown
Yahoo’s betting that good patents trump great products, as the company sues Facebook for 10 counts of patent infringement.
The lawsuit covers messaging, privacy options, advertising, customization and, of course, social …
New Yahoo CEO Prepares ‘Thousands’ of Layoffs: Report
The new chief executive of troubled tech giant Yahoo is planning a major reorganization that could result in “thousands” of layoffs, according to a new report.
Yahoo Threatens to Sue Facebook Over Patents
The escalating war between technology companies over intellectual property has had a number of unfortunate consequences, but perhaps none is sadder than the spectacle of an ailing Internet giant using the threat of patent …
Flickr Shifting Towards More Stylish, App-Like Design Next Week
Flickr is getting a much needed makeover. Markus Spiering, the company’s senior product manager, told Betabeat that users should expect the new look by February 28.
In the age of Instagram and Google+, Flickr, which is owned …
Internet Supergroup Formed to Defeat Email Scams
Sick of dealing with — or worse, falling for — spam emails that claim to come from companies like Facebook, Yahoo, Google or the like? Hope is at hand, as those companies (and many others) have joined together to create a new …
Jerry Yang’s Exit Clears Path for Yahoo Sale or Breakup
Yahoo founder Jerry Yang will surely be remembered as one of the great pioneers of the Internet industry, but in the end, he couldn’t overcome the consequences of the most important decision of his career: spurning …