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  Ex-Yahoo, Google, and Facebook exec: Why taking a demotion was a smart career move

  Technology | September 16, 2024 17:50 IST

  After spending over two decades in leadership roles, Jennifer Dulski, who worked with major tech companies founded Rising Team, a leadership development platform.

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  Yahoo layoffs: 'Beneficial for overall profitability of company', says CEO Jim Lanzone

  Business | February 10, 2023 14:28 IST

  Yahoo layoffs: The layoffs will help the company to go on offense and invest more in businesses that are profitable. According to the company, 12 per cent of the workforce (around 1,000 employees) would be laid off on Friday.

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  Yahoo to fire 1,000 employees this week under cost-cutting campaign

  Business | February 10, 2023 14:03 IST

  Yahoo would lay off over 20% of staff in a major restructuring effort. Technology giant has announced job cuts in its advertising technology division, affecting nearly half of its ad tech employees.

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  Yahoo shuts down news sites in India due to new FDI rules

  Business | August 26, 2021 14:25 IST

  "As of Aug 26, 2021 Yahoo India will no longer be publishing content. Your Yahoo Account, Mail and Search experiences will not be affected in any way and will operate as usual. We thank you for your support and readership," a notice on the Yahoo website said.

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  Yahoo Answers to shut down on May 4

  Technology | April 06, 2021 18:16 IST

  One of the longest-running web Q&A platforms Yahoo Answers, which has been operating since 2005, will shut down permanently on May 4. 

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  Yahoo Mail to stop automatic email forwarding for free users

  Technology | November 08, 2020 19:15 IST

  Yahoo Mail will discontinue automatic email forwarding for free users from January 1 next year, in order to reduce hacking attempts.

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  Ramayan top-entertainer, Kanika Kapoor most-searched female celebrity

  April 24, 2020 17:11 IST

  In the entertainment arena, search for old classic Ramayan sprung up after it was re-telecast on Doordarshan. Besides Ramanand Sagar's show, pandemic movie Contagion, Good Newwz, Tanhaji and Big Boss made up the top 5 entertainment searches.

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  Ayodhya verdict 'Event of the Decade', 5 SC judges 'Personality of the Year 2019': Yahoo

  India | December 02, 2019 22:16 IST

  The Ayodhya verdict was named the "Event of the Decade" while the five Supreme Court judges behind the verdict were named as the "Personality of the Year 2019" by search engine major Yahoo India on Monday.  

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  Paytm makes foray into Japan, launches Paypay

  Business | October 22, 2018 16:30 IST

  With this Paytm has made foray into the Japnese market after successfully launching its services in Canada last year

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  Yahoo Messenger finally bids goodbye, 90's kids bid emotional goodbye on Twitter

  Technology | July 17, 2018 13:20 IST

  As Yahoo Messenger finally shuts down today, the nostalgic netizen bid emotional goodbye on Twitter. 

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  Yahoo Mail roll out app for Android 'Go' phones

  Technology | June 20, 2018 16:38 IST

  The Yahoo Mail Go app delivers the same features of the current Android application while keeping the RAM usage on devices below 50MB and the install size below 10MB. 

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  Bye Bye Yahoo Messenger! Instant-messaging app to vanish off our sight on July 17

  Technology | June 09, 2018 17:17 IST

  The chat service garnered praises in its initial days in 1998, with a vast user base, but witnessed a downfall after several new services rose to dominance, including Google Talk, social networks like Facebook and now WhatsApp. 

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  Yahoo Messenger services to stop from July 17

  Technology | June 09, 2018 17:02 IST

  Yahoo Messenger first made its debut as "Yahoo Pager" way back in 1998 as an alternative to email and short message service (SMS) on basic mobile devices.

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  Yahoo! agrees to pay $35 million fine for 2014 data breach

  Business | April 25, 2018 14:51 IST

  Personal data was stolen from hundreds of millions of Yahoo users in the December 2014 breach attributed to Russian hackers.

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  Yahoo sending notifications to additional affected user accounts that were hacked in 2013

  Business | October 04, 2017 18:00 IST

  Yahoo is now sending email notifications to the additional affected user accounts.

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  All 3 billion accounts affected in 2013 data breach, says Yahoo

  Internet | October 04, 2017 18:02 IST

  Yahoo said 2013 data theft affected all 3 billion accounts on its service, not the 1 billion it revealed late last year.

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  Strange that web majors are objecting to panel recommendations on videos of sexual offences: SC

  Internet | September 18, 2017 21:29 IST

  Internet majors such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook and WhatsApp have objected to making public certain recommendations in a report of a panel set up to explore technical solutions to block videos of sexual offences on social sites.

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  Yahoo logs off as Verizon completes $4.5 bn takeover, CEO Marissa Mayer quits

  June 14, 2017 10:58 IST

  CEO Mayer will not be joining Verizon and will walk away from Yahoo with a compensation package currently worth about $127 million, including her severance pay and stock awards that will be fully vested with the deal’s completion

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  Verizon takes over Yahoo to complete Rs 29,000 cr deal

  June 13, 2017 22:41 IST

  Verizon has taken over Yahoo, completing a $4.5 billion (approx Rs 29,000 crore) deal that will usher in a new management team to attempt to wring more advertising revenue from one of the internet's best-known brands

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  Two Russian spies charged in US for hacking Yahoo

  World | March 16, 2017 10:35 IST

  US Department of Justice indicted two Russian FSB spies and two hackers allegedly hired by the Kremlin to steal the personal information of some 500 million Yahoo! users in 2014, media reports said.