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  • fired yahoo executive gets 58 million for 15 months of work

    Fired Yahoo executive gets $58 million for 15 months of work

    Apr 17, 2014, 04:35 PM IST

    San 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

  • yahoo now encrypting information transmitted between its

    Yahoo now encrypting information transmitted between its data centres

    Apr 03, 2014, 03:45 PM IST

    New 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

  • yahoo s search engine leans on yelp for help

    Yahoo's search engine leans on Yelp for help

    Mar 13, 2014, 12:05 AM IST

    San 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

  • yahoo to disable facebook google sign in for its services

    Yahoo to disable Facebook, Google sign-in for its services

    Mar 05, 2014, 04:07 PM IST

    New 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

  • yahoo pours 1 billion on product development eyes tech to

    Yahoo! pours $1 billion on product development; eyes tech to lure users

    Mar 02, 2014, 05:07 PM IST

    New 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

  • yahoo s 4q results dragged down by revenue drop

    Yahoo's 4Q results dragged down by revenue drop

    Jan 29, 2014, 07:28 PM IST

    San 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

  • us govt internet companies reach deal on disclosure

    US govt, internet companies reach deal on disclosure

    Jan 28, 2014, 05:03 PM IST

    Washington: 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

  • yahoo is most visited desktop website in us

    Yahoo is most-visited desktop website in US

    Jan 22, 2014, 07:54 PM IST

    New 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

  • ces 2014 yahoo says over half of its 800 million monthly

    CES 2014: Yahoo says over half of its 800 million monthly users on mobile

    Jan 09, 2014, 04:40 PM IST

    New 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

  • top 10 searched news stories on yahoo in 2013

    Top 10 searched news stories on Yahoo in 2013

    Dec 04, 2013, 07:20 AM IST

    New 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

  • top 10 most searched keywords in yahoo

    Top 10 most searched keywords in Yahoo

    Dec 04, 2013, 07:22 AM IST

    New 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

  • yahoo vows to encrypt web site traffic

    Yahoo vows to encrypt web site traffic

    Nov 19, 2013, 07:03 PM IST

    San 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

  • india made an average 15 user data requests a day to google

    India made an average 15 user data requests a day to Google

    Nov 17, 2013, 03:52 PM IST

    New 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

  • nsa scoops data from yahoo google data centres report

    NSA scoops data from Yahoo, Google data centres: Report

    World | Oct 31, 2013, 09:14 AM IST

    Washington : 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

  • govt mulls ban of official usage of gmail yahoo

    Govt mulls ban of official usage of Gmail, Yahoo

    India | Oct 29, 2013, 03:57 PM IST

    New 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

  • yahoo buys image recognition startup for flickr

    Yahoo buys image-recognition startup for Flickr

    Oct 24, 2013, 11:07 AM IST

    Sunnyvale, 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

  • yahoo to close cairo office during year end

    Yahoo! to close Cairo office during year-end

    Oct 24, 2013, 10:20 AM IST

    San 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

  • yahoo again tops google in us web visitors in sept

    Yahoo again tops Google in US Web visitors in Sept

    Oct 22, 2013, 09:44 AM IST

    New 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

  • new yahoo logo unveiled a bit slimmer than previous version

    New Yahoo logo unveiled, a bit slimmer than previous version

    Sep 05, 2013, 11:10 AM IST

    New 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

  • yahoo to focus on developing mobile internet apps

    Yahoo to focus on developing mobile Internet apps

    Jul 14, 2013, 06:33 AM IST

    Hyderabad, July 14: With Internet users on mobile phones increasing rapidly in India, Yahoo is focusing on developing applications for this growing market, a senior company official said Saturday.Yahoo, which has its presence in almost

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