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Yahoo to release two new comedy series next year; aims to take on Netflix, Hulu
Apr 29, 2014, 03:46 PM ISTNew York: Yahoo will release two new comedy series next year in hopes of becoming an even more serious player in Internet video programming.The expansion announced Monday during a presentation in New York makes Yahoo
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Fired Yahoo executive gets $58 million for 15 months of work
Apr 17, 2014, 04:35 PM ISTSan Francisco: Yahoo's recently fired chief operating officer, Henrique de Castro, left the Internet company with a severance package of $58 million even though he lasted just 15 months on the job.The disclosure in a
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Yahoo now encrypting information transmitted between its data centres
Apr 03, 2014, 03:45 PM ISTNew Delhi: Yahoo has added more layers of security in its effort to shield people's online lives from government spying and other snooping.The measures announced Wednesday include the completion of a system that encrypts all
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Yahoo's search engine leans on Yelp for help
Mar 13, 2014, 12:05 AM ISTSan Francisco: Yahoo is cribbing from Yelp's online reviews of local merchants to soup up its search engine. Ratings and excerpts from Yelp's merchant reviews began to appear in Yahoo's search results on Wednesday. Financial
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Yahoo to disable Facebook, Google sign-in for its services
Mar 05, 2014, 04:07 PM ISTNew Delhi: Users of Yahoo services will have to use a Yahoo username to sign on to its services, as the company plans to phase out signing up to these services using Facebook and Google
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Yahoo! pours $1 billion on product development; eyes tech to lure users
Mar 02, 2014, 05:07 PM ISTNew Delhi: Technology giant Yahoo! invested $1 billion in 2013 on product development to beef up its media, news and entertainment offerings to serve advertisers and consumers better as it takes head on giants like
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Yahoo's 4Q results dragged down by revenue drop
Jan 29, 2014, 07:28 PM ISTSan Francisco: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer insists the long-stumbling Internet company has finally regained its stride, even though its revenue is still stuck in reverse.The latest evidence of the challenges facing Mayer emerged Tuesday with
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US govt, internet companies reach deal on disclosure
Jan 28, 2014, 05:03 PM ISTWashington: The government and leading Internet companies on Monday announced a compromise that will allow those companies to reveal more information about how often they are ordered to turn over customer information to the government
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Yahoo is most-visited desktop website in US
Jan 22, 2014, 07:54 PM ISTNew Delhi: It seems like all the efforts made by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer to give a new direction to the faded digital media company have paid off. Internet portal Yahoo has confounded its critics
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CES 2014: Yahoo says over half of its 800 million monthly users on mobile
Jan 09, 2014, 04:40 PM ISTNew Delhi: More than half of the total 800 million monthly users of Yahoo! access it on their mobile phones, CEO Marissa Mayer said.Mayer, while unveiling a suite of services covering digital advertising, food and
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Top 10 searched news stories on Yahoo in 2013
Dec 04, 2013, 07:20 AM ISTNew Delhi: Here are top 10 searched stories on Yahoo in 2013:10. Aaron Hernandez arrestThe former NFL tight end allegedly orchestrated the slaying of his friend Odin Lloyd. Hernandez, 23, was arrested on June 26
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Top 10 most searched keywords in Yahoo
Dec 04, 2013, 07:22 AM ISTNew Delhi: Revealing a fascinating insight into our daily search habits and the social trends of 2013, search engine giant Yahoo has released its list of most popular search terms for 2013.For Americans, singer Miley
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Yahoo vows to encrypt web site traffic
Nov 19, 2013, 07:03 PM ISTSan Francisco: Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer said on Monday the Internet firm will begin encrypting data to protect users from online snooping.By April, Yahoo will have encryption in place to protect information shared by users
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India made an average 15 user data requests a day to Google
Nov 17, 2013, 03:52 PM ISTNew Delhi: In signs of growing Internet snooping by the enforcement authorities, India made an average about 15 requests per day to Google to access personal web details of users during January-June this year.In terms
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NSA scoops data from Yahoo, Google data centres: Report
World | Oct 31, 2013, 09:14 AM ISTWashington : The US National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links connecting Yahoo and Google data centres around the world, a US daily reported Wednesday.The Washington Post cited classified documents leaked
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Govt mulls ban of official usage of Gmail, Yahoo
India | Oct 29, 2013, 03:57 PM ISTNew Delhi: Wary of cyber snooping, the government could ban e-mail services such as Gmail and Yahoo for official communications by December this year in a move to safeguard its critical and sensitive data.The government
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Yahoo buys image-recognition startup for Flickr
Oct 24, 2013, 11:07 AM ISTSunnyvale, California: Yahoo's latest acquisition will bring image-recognition technology to its Flickr service for sharing photos.The Internet company is getting the new tools and expertise through its purchase of a startup called LookFlow. Financial terms
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Yahoo! to close Cairo office during year-end
Oct 24, 2013, 10:20 AM ISTSan Francisco: Yahoo! said that it is closing its Egypt office as part of an effort to restore the faded Internet star to former glory.“Yahoo! announced to employees that we plan to close our Cairo
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Yahoo again tops Google in US Web visitors in Sept
Oct 22, 2013, 09:44 AM ISTNew York: For the third month in a row, more Americans visited Yahoo's websites than Google's, according to comScore Inc.'s Internet traffic data for September.The research firm said Monday that Yahoo Inc.'s websites had 197.8
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New Yahoo logo unveiled, a bit slimmer than previous version
Sep 05, 2013, 11:10 AM ISTNew York: Yahoo late Wednesday updated its logo with slimmer letters but kept the trademark purple color and exclamation point. "We wanted a logo that stayed true to our roots (whimsical, purple, with an exclamation