Maybe you just bought the new Amazon Fire TV — and just maybe you thought that meant you were getting the most cutting edge technology. But it’s not so simple.… Read More
Vizify, a Portland-based startup that turns your social media chatter into visualizations, today was acquired by Yahoo. Founded by Todd Silverstein, Jeff Cutler-Stamm, and Eli Tucker in 2011, Vizify is all… Read More
The story of Lockerz — the battered and bruised Seattle upstart that sold earlier this year to a Chinese e-commerce company at a fire sale price — is one of the more… Read More
Marissa Mayer has been clear about her dissatisfaction with Yahoo’s Microsoft search partnership in the past — saying at last year’s Goldman Sachs technology conference that the partnership needed to… Read More
Yahoo reported today that hackers have attempted a coordinated attack on a number of Yahoo Mail accounts. According to the company’s blog post, Yahoo believes that the attack was caused… Read More
Yahoo announced today that the company brought in $1.266 billion in revenue during the fourth quarter of 2013, a 6 percent decrease from the same period a year ago. However,… Read More
Gmail went down for a brief moment today, and Yahoo decided to take advantage of problems that its biggest email competitor was having. The outage, which was a temporary 500 code… Read More
Seattle mobile marketing startup Sparq is the latest company to land in the corporate grasp of Yahoo. “We’ve come a long way from our humble beginnings and are proud to… Read More
Yahoo COO Henrique de Castro will be leaving the company tomorrow, according to an SEC filing from the company today. No reason was given for his departure. Marissa Mayer hired de Castro… Read More
Google’s share of the U.S. search market climbed to 67.3 percent in December, its highest point in nearly a year, according to numbers just released by the comScore research firm.… Read More
Putting on a Consumer Electronics Show keynote is not easy for any company, but the stakes were especially high for Yahoo in Las Vegas this past week, providing a chance… Read More
LAS VEGAS — The buying spree continues! Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was on stage at CES for less than five minutes before she announced an another acquisition this afternoon, saying… Read More
While CEO Marissa Mayer has been critical of Yahoo’s deal with Microsoft, it seems like the partnership may be more beneficial to the company than originally revealed. Bloomberg reported today… Read More
While they’re usually fierce competitors, an octet of leading technology companies have banded together to ask the U.S. to take the lead when it comes to ending government surveillance. AOL,… Read More
—TV host Katie Couric plans to join Yahoo as “global anchor,” the latest key media hire for CEO Marissa Mayer. She plans to join the Internet company some time next… Read More
In a post to Yahoo’s official blog, CEO Marissa Mayer announced that the company plans to have all of its internal server traffic encrypted by the end of Q1 2014.… Read More
As a part of doing business on the Internet, Yahoo picked up a bunch of domains. They were holding onto them for a rainy day–maybe some product that never launched,… Read More
Much has been made about Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s apparent discontent with the company’s search advertising partnership with Microsoft, and the potential for Yahoo to try to exit the partnership… Read More
The search partnership between Microsoft and Yahoo is getting even frostier: Newly released court records show that Yahoo is questioning Microsoft’s long-term commitment to the deal as Steve Ballmer prepares to… Read More
Yahoo has been on a serious acquisition hunt in recent months, gobbling up tons of startups in a series of “acquihires.” Well, now it just picked up one of the… Read More
For Yahoo, there’s good news and bad news. The bad news is that the company’s revenue continues to decline. The good news is that its revenue isn’t declining as much… Read More
There’s nothing like a whole lot of bad press to get things moving. Yahoo touched off a firestorm on Tuesday when security firm High-Tech Bridge issued a grumpy press release… Read More
Yahoo may be in the midst of a reinvention, but according to one security company, their compensation for turning in security flaws is…lacking. According to security firm High-Tech Bridge, they… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO – It seems everyone has an opinion on who Microsoft’s next CEO should be, but if Marissa Mayer has a name, she’s not telling. While TechCrunch founder Michael… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO– While the rest of the internet has fretted over Yahoo’s new logo, Marissa Meyer is more interested in the substance of the company. “We’re happy with the logo,… Read More
Following Yahoo’s acquisition of Tumblr earlier this year, CEO Marissa Mayer and her team are trying to make the blogging site more palatable to advertisers and brands. Enter Simply Measured,… Read More
The question floating around Silicon Valley seems to be: what isn’t Yahoo buying these days? Social browser company Rockmelt is the latest company to join the menagerie of acquisitions by… Read More
Microsoft has put an unidentified employee on administrative leave pending the results of an internal investigation related to charges of insider trading against a financial analyst who allegedly received advance… Read More
The monthly U.S. search stats from comScore are out for June and Microsoft continues to grow its search share while Yahoo keeps sliding. Google held the top spot with 66.7 percent market… Read More
Yahoo’s mad acquisition spree continued Wednesday with Xobni, a San Francisco-based startup that helps users organize contacts (Xobni is “inbox” spelled backward.) More than five years after walking away from… Read More