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Looking for the season premiere of Game of Thrones? You won’t find it on the new Amazon Fire TV

Maybe you just bought the new Amazon Fire TV — and just maybe you thought that meant you were getting… Read More

Yahoo acquires social media visualization startup Vizify

Vizify, a Portland-based startup that turns your social media chatter into visualizations, today was acquired by Yahoo. Founded by Todd Silverstein,… Read More

Lessons from Lockerz? Kathy Savitt uses past startup experience to fuel new push at Yahoo

The story of Lockerz — the battered and bruised Seattle upstart that sold earlier this year to a Chinese e-commerce company… Read More

Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer: ‘We’re eager to start this new era with Microsoft’

Marissa Mayer has been clear about her dissatisfaction with Yahoo’s Microsoft search partnership in the past — saying at last… Read More

Hack attack prompts massive password reset for Yahoo Mail

Yahoo reported today that hackers have attempted a coordinated attack on a number of Yahoo Mail accounts. According to the… Read More

Yahoo nears $2.7B in quarterly revenue, beating estimates but falling short of last year

Yahoo announced today that the company brought in $1.266 billion in revenue during the fourth quarter of 2013, a 6… Read More

Gmail went down for 15 minutes and Yahoo made sure to let everyone know

Gmail went down for a brief moment today, and Yahoo decided to take advantage of problems that its biggest email competitor… Read More

Yahoo continues acquisition spree, buys Seattle mobile marketing startup Sparq

Seattle mobile marketing startup Sparq is the latest company to land in the corporate grasp of Yahoo. “We’ve come a… Read More

Shakeup at Yahoo: COO Henrique de Castro is out

Yahoo COO Henrique de Castro will be leaving the company tomorrow, according to an SEC filing from the company today. No reason… Read More

Google’s market share climbs in latest U.S. search stats

Google’s share of the U.S. search market climbed to 67.3 percent in December, its highest point in nearly a year,… Read More

Tech pros like Yahoo’s new sites, question Marissa Mayer’s credibility, hate David Pogue’s shtick

Putting on a Consumer Electronics Show keynote is not easy for any company, but the stakes were especially high for… Read More

CES: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announces Aviate deal, trots out Katie Couric, unveils news app and tech pub

LAS VEGAS — The buying spree continues! Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was on stage at CES for less than five… Read More

Report: Yahoo needs Microsoft more than it wants to admit

While CEO Marissa Mayer has been critical of Yahoo’s deal with Microsoft, it seems like the partnership may be more… Read More

Apple, Microsoft, Google and other tech rivals urge Obama, Congress to curb snooping

While they’re usually fierce competitors, an octet of leading technology companies have banded together to ask the U.S. to take… Read More

Tech Moves: Katie Couric joins Yahoo; Shakeup at BlackBerry; Crosscut’s Shaw returns to Microsoft

—TV host Katie Couric plans to join Yahoo as “global anchor,” the latest key media hire for CEO Marissa Mayer.… Read More

Yahoo to encrypt internal server traffic by early next year, trying to thwart NSA

In a post to Yahoo’s official blog, CEO Marissa Mayer announced that the company plans to have all of its… Read More

Want to own sandwich.com? Yahoo has an auction for you

As a part of doing business on the Internet, Yahoo picked up a bunch of domains. They were holding onto… Read More

Microsoft ad boss: We want the Yahoo deal to last even longer than 10 years

Much has been made about Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s apparent discontent with the company’s search advertising partnership with Microsoft, and… Read More

Court filing: Yahoo tried to put the brakes on Microsoft deal amid Ballmer transition

The search partnership between Microsoft and Yahoo is getting even frostier: Newly released court records show that Yahoo is questioning Microsoft’s… Read More

Tech columnist David Pogue leaves NYT for Yahoo, plans to launch new consumer tech site

Yahoo has been on a serious acquisition hunt in recent months, gobbling up tons of startups in a series of… Read More

Yahoo hits 800M users, revenue exceeds expectations despite falling 5%

For Yahoo, there’s good news and bad news. The bad news is that the company’s revenue continues to decline. The… Read More

Yahoo now offering bug bounty of up to $15,000 following harsh criticisms for $12.50 gift

There’s nothing like a whole lot of bad press to get things moving. Yahoo touched off a firestorm on Tuesday… Read More

Researchers find critical vulnerabilities in Yahoo’s site, offered $12.50 per bug

Yahoo may be in the midst of a reinvention, but according to one security company, their compensation for turning in… Read More

Marissa Mayer: new Microsoft CEO needs to understand enterprise

SAN FRANCISCO – It seems everyone has an opinion on who Microsoft’s next CEO should be, but if Marissa Mayer… Read More

Mayer: Yahoo sees 800M users a month, 12k resumes

SAN FRANCISCO– While the rest of the internet has fretted over Yahoo’s new logo, Marissa Meyer is more interested in… Read More

Simply Measured partners with Tumblr on analytics, as Yahoo courts big brands

Following Yahoo’s acquisition of Tumblr earlier this year, CEO Marissa Mayer and her team are trying to make the blogging… Read More

Yahoo buys, kills Rockmelt in the same day

The question floating around Silicon Valley seems to be: what isn’t Yahoo buying these days? Social browser company Rockmelt is… Read More

Feds: ‘Senior guy at Microsoft’ allegedly enabled insider trading on Yahoo deal

Microsoft has put an unidentified employee on administrative leave pending the results of an internal investigation related to charges of… Read More

Search stats: Bing gaining market share as Yahoo slips

The monthly U.S. search stats from comScore are out for June and Microsoft continues to grow its search share while Yahoo keeps… Read More

Yahoo buys contact-organizer Xobni, continues acquisition spree

Yahoo’s mad acquisition spree continued Wednesday with Xobni, a San Francisco-based startup that helps users organize contacts (Xobni is “inbox”… Read More