Kathy Savitt is leaving Yahoo. The tech giant’s chief marketing officer announced today that she is taking a new role at STX Entertainment as president of the motion picture and television studio’s digital arm. Savitt was not… Read More
For the second time in the past year, Jon McCormack has decided to leave Amazon. This time, McCormack, who was most recently the CTO in charge of devices, including Amazon’s… Read More
You’ll be able to watch an NFL regular season game online later this year for free, thanks to Yahoo. Back in March, we learned that the NFL would broadcast a game… Read More
Here’s a different way to look at Apple’s latest quarter: The company’s revenue of $58 billion was $14 billion more than the quarterly revenue of Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Facebook — combined. Apple’s… Read More
Yahoo’s first quarter financial results didn’t quite live up to Wall Street’s expectations. The company’s revenue for the period from January to March (excluding traffic acquisition costs) was $1.043 billion,… Read More
A new provision in the renewed search agreement between Microsoft and Yahoo gives either company the ability to end the deal at any point after Oct. 1 of this year by… Read More
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella have revised the landmark search alliance struck by their predecessors nearly six years ago — loosening the ties between the companies in the process. “Over the… Read More
Microsoft has nabbed search share from Google and Yahoo to grab a fifth of the total desktop web search market in the U.S., according to a report released by ComScore… Read More
Yahoo’s Smush.it image optimization service has been taken offline without warning, leaving hundreds of thousands of websites in the lurch. The free service, which allowed website administrators to upload an image and receive a smaller… Read More
Yahoo and Microsoft may be modifying an agreement that has tied the fates of the two companies together for the past five years. Yahoo revealed in a regulatory filing today that the… Read More
A confidential report prepared by staffers at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission found that Google took product rankings from Amazon and other companies like Yelp and TripAdvisor to improve its… Read More
The puffy shirt. Risk, a game about world domination being played by two men who can barely run their own lives. Shrinkage. All these classic episodes from the ’90s iconic… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo is offering a new suite of tools to help app developers build their businesses, as part of an effort to expand its own mobile advertising business. At the company’s inaugural… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo is betting big on mobile as the company tries to revitalize itself and compete with Google for digital advertising dollars. Addressing Yahoo’s first mobile developers conference… Read More
Facebook launched a new platform today for companies to share information about security threats and work together to solve them. Called ThreatExchange, it’s a new “social platform designed for sharing… Read More
Yahoo’s deal with Mozilla to become the default search provider for U.S. Firefox users has paid off. The company handled almost 11 percent of all U.S. search referrals in January, the… Read More
Yahoo’s decision to become the default search provider for Firefox has paid off in spades. According to new data released by StatCounter, the search firm has achieved its highest search… Read More
Well, this little tell-all could be quite the read. The book Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo, out Jan. 6, reveals quite a bit about the CEO’s decision-making… Read More
In another move to shore up its image, Yahoo announced today that it will hold a conference for mobile app developers on Feb. 19, 2015, in San Francisco. The conference, which will… Read More
Yahoo and Microsoft are fighting to be the search engine provider for the iPhone when Apple’s contract with Google expires next year, according to a report by Amir Efrati at… Read More
In a massive shift, Mozilla has signed a five-year partnership with Yahoo to be the default search provider for Firefox users in the U.S. The new agreement unseats Google as… Read More
The year may be winding to a close, but a coalition of 9 tech companies want lawmakers in Washington, D.C. to curb the government’s surveillance powers before the close of… Read More
—Amazon.com’s top online advertising executive, Lisa Utzschneider, is leaving the company to join Yahoo, reports AdAge. The news follows a report earlier this week by Kara Swisher at Re/code that Yahoo… Read More
Yahoo’s financials this quarter have blown past expectations set for the company by Wall Street at a time when there is greater skepticism than ever about CEO Marissa Mayer’s leadership… Read More
Yahoo just can’t catch a break. ComScore’s new U.S. search market share numbers for June will show that the company’s piece of the market has shrunk to what one analyst calls an… Read More
Follow-up, Feb. 24, 2016: Yahoo exec and Seattle startup founder Maria Zhang on her vindication against sexual harassment suit Former Seattle startup CEO Maria Zhang, who joined Yahoo as a senior… Read More
Providing links to content from German publishers could become costly for Microsoft, Google and Yahoo. VG Media, a collection agency for rights holders, has filed a civil suit against Google,… Read More
Microsoft this morning announced a new position of chief economist inside the company, and named Preston McAfee — most recently Google’s director of strategic technologies — to fill the role.… Read More
Yahoo announced today that it will be launching a pair of new original comedies next year through its Yahoo Screen video streaming service. Much like other offerings from Yahoo’s competitors,… Read More
The Chinese e-commerce company, known for having twice as much revenue as Amazon, may file for an IPO as soon as next week. You should care because Alibaba could represent… Read More