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  Cow is Yahoo's personality of the year, Sunny Leone most searched female celeb

  India | December 22, 2015 7:51 IST

  New Delhi: Yahoo on Monday said the 'cow' pipped all other contenders in 2015 to emerge as the personality of the year in India."In an unexpected twist, the humble 'cow' emerged as 'Personality of the

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  Yahoo mulls selling Internet business to dodge $10 billion tax bill

  December 03, 2015 12:38 IST

  San Francisco: Yahoo's board is considering an activist shareholder's demand to sell the Internet services the company is best known for, a maneuver that might help the company dodge a tax bill of more than

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  Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer expecting identical twin girls

  World | September 02, 2015 6:52 IST

  San Francisco: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is going to give birth to twins while trying to deliver a long-promised turnaround at the struggling Internet company.The identical twin girls are expected to be born in December,

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  Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer pregnant, expects twins in December

  September 01, 2015 17:50 IST

  San Francisco: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer says she's pregnant with identical twins.Mayer says on a posting on her blog that she and her husband are expecting the twin girls in December."I have some exciting news

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  Yahoo to shut down Maps and other services

  June 06, 2015 10:48 IST

  Washington: US internet giant Yahoo has announced that it will shut down Yahoo Maps, eight years after it was launched, and other services in different countries, Efe news agency reported on Friday.Yahoo Maps will shut

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  Yahoo, Simon Cowell team up for new music competition series

  April 29, 2015 7:11 IST

  New York: Internet giant Yahoo has teamed up with media mogul Simon Cowell for a new music competition series named "Ultimate DJ".The tech giant announced a slew of original programmings at its NewFronts presentation on

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  Flipkart gears up for competition with senior management changes

  April 03, 2015 18:11 IST

  New Delhi: Online marketplace Flipkart announced a slew of appointments to its senior leadership team.The firm appointed Hari Vasudev as Senior Vice President (Engineering, IT & Analytics) for Supply Chain vertical.Vasudev will spearhead the charter

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  Yahoo says it will buy back $2 billion in stock

  March 27, 2015 18:34 IST

  New York: Yahoo says it will buy back $2 billion in company stock as it prepares to spin off its stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.Investors were pushing Yahoo to use some of the proceeds

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  No password needed for Yahoo accounts anymore

  March 17, 2015 14:26 IST

  New Delhi: Yahoo has launched a new 'on-demand' password system. Through this process you can log into your account anytime using an individually generated unique code that company will text to your phone.To activate the

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  Modi govt bans use of private e-mail websites for official commutation

  Politics | March 01, 2015 12:33 IST

  New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government has banned the use of all private e-mail websites like Gmail and Yahoo at all government's office for official communication.A notification was issued in this regard by the Government

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  PM Modi, Mukesh Ambani most searched personalities in 2014: Yahoo

  India | December 08, 2014 14:47 IST

  Bengaluru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and industrialist Mukesh Ambani feature amongst the most searched personalities online this year, according to search engine Yahoo.According to the seventh edition of Yahoo India's 'Year in Review', Prime Minister

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  Yahoo replaces Google as default US Firefox search engine

  November 20, 2014 12:25 IST

  New Delhi: Tech giant Yahoo will now replace Google as the default search engine on Firefox's internet browsers in the US.Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer called the five-year deal with Firefox "the most significant partnership

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  Yahoo buys digital ad service BrightRoll for $640 million

  November 12, 2014 12:57 IST

  New York: Yahoo is buying digital video advertising service BrightRoll for $640 million (roughly Rs. 3,900 crores) in the Internet company's latest attempt to boost its revenue after years filled mostly with financial futility.The acquisition

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  Yahoo lays off 400 in India

  October 08, 2014 10:06 IST

  New Delhi: Internet firm Yahoo has started a fresh set of layoffs in India. The company has terminated 400 employees in its Yahoo Software Development Centre (SDC), situated in Bangalore, as it seeks to consolidate

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  Investors fret Yahoo's future, stock dips

  September 23, 2014 9:34 IST

  San Francisco: Yahoo may be losing some appeal on Wall Street now that U.S. investors can buy directly into Alibaba.Yahoo's stock fell Monday as investors grappled with uncertainty about CEO Marissa Mayer's efforts to turn

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  Yahoo buys out Bangalore startup Bookpad

  September 22, 2014 12:29 IST

  New Delhi: Yahoo has acquired Bangalore-based startup Bookpad for Rs 50 crore, a startup that's barely a year old and founded by three youngsters who passed out of IIT-Guwahati over the past three years. The

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  Yahoo to make billions from Alibaba IPO

  September 19, 2014 17:55 IST

  New Delhi: Yahoo is making amends for years of blundering with one smart move: an early investment in China's Alibaba Group that has turned into a multibillion-dollar boon.The latest windfall will be delivered with Alibaba's

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  Yahoo describes surveillance fight

  World | September 12, 2014 8:59 IST

  WASHINGTON: Yahoo said on Thursday the government threatened to fine the company $250,000 a day if it did not comply with demands to go along with an expansion of U.S. surveillance by surrendering online information,

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  Yahoo Japan cancels $3.2 bn plan to buy eAccess

  May 19, 2014 23:05 IST

  Tokyo: Internet giant Yahoo Japan today said it has cancelled plans to buy domestic telecom company eAccess from its parent SoftBank Corp in a deal valued at about $3.2 billion.In March, Yahoo's Japanese unit —

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  Yahoo revamps iPhone Mail app

  May 01, 2014 7:51 IST

  New Delhi: Yahoo has unveiled a new version of their Yahoo Mail app for iPhone and iPod touch devices, by bringing together access to mails, news and a Google Now-like personalised stream.Version 3.0 will be