Latest about Yahoo: News, Features, Opinions and More  Iran blocks access to some outside websites, services
The Iranian government has severed some citizens' connections to secure websites and services, including Twitter and Google's Gmail, according to reports by Iranians and network experts. Yahoo in another shakeup as chairman and directors depart
The shakeup at Yahoo continues as the company's chairman and three directors stepped down Tuesday. The new board could be gearing up to sell the Internet company, or the new CEO may be looking for a board that will support him. Yahoo ousts half its board
As part of an ongoing effort to recover from a downward spiral, Yahoo said on Tuesday that four board members, including its chairman, will step down. The rise of Node.js: JavaScript graduates to the server
Microsoft and others have already adopted this technology to extend JavaScript beyond the browser -- but it has limits developers must beware Could Facebook IPO help it dominate Google?
With the Facebook IPO now official, industry and financial analysts say that a huge influx of cash could allow it to topple Google from its dominant position in the online world. Wall Street Beat: Tech shines as earnings come in strong
This week's tsunami of tech earnings, led by Apple's jaw-dropping quarterly report, has given market watchers something to cheer about and also points to industry shifts around tablets and cloud computing. Yahoo continued to struggle with online ad sales in Q4
Yahoo struggled selling both display and search advertising in the fourth quarter, as its revenue and net income both dropped year-on-year. With Yang out, big changes coming to Yahoo?
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang's departure this week from the company should put in in a better position to take drastic action to fix its long-running woes. Jerry Yang leaves Yahoo
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang has left the company, the latest dramatic change at the top executive level of the embattled Internet company. Indian court issues summons to Google, Facebook for 'objectionable' content
A Delhi court sent a summons to the headquarters of foreign Internet companies including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Yahoo on Friday, in a private case against objectionable content online. With Thompson in CEO seat, Yahoo may go after Netflix
Just one day after Yahoo announced that it found a new CEO, speculation began swirling that the Internet company may be looking to scoop up Netflix. Can Thompson rejuvenate Yahoo?
Yahoo's choice of a new corporate head is sending the message that the company will be rebuilt instead of sold, analysts say. Update: Yahoo taps PayPal President Thompson as CEO
Yahoo's board has chosen as the company's CEO Scott Thompson, president of eBay's PayPal, ending a four-month search after Carol Bartz was fired in early September. Hadoop solidified for production duty
After nearly seven years of development and fine tuning, the Apache Hadoop data processing framework is finally ready for full production use, the developers of the software announced Wednesday. Google, Facebook were dominant websites in 2011
Online giants Google and Facebook came out as the most-visited websites of 2011, according to a Nielsen report. Google, Microsoft each seek search 'game changer'
While Google and Microsoft waged trench warfare in the search business this year, both are hoping to come up with a market game changer for 2012. Google to pay Mozilla $300M yearly in new search deal, says report
Google promised to pay Mozilla almost $300 million annually to keep its search engine as the default in Firefox, according to a report today on AllThingsD, a blog operated by the publisher of the Wall Street Journal. 15 top quotes of 2011
As another year draws to a close, we look back on the IT-related comments that stuck with us. CEA switches positions, now backs Internet sales tax
The Consumer Electronics Association has switched its position on Internet sales taxes, with the huge trade group now supporting the collection of the tax. India not interested in pre-screening online content
India never asked Internet companies to pre-screen objectionable content, a federal minister said in interviews with local TV channels. Yahoo simplifies access to BOSS search development platform
Yahoo will introduce on Wednesday several new features in its Search BOSS application development platform intended to make it easier for programmers and web publishers to adopt and use. India wants Google, Facebook to screen content
The government of India has asked Internet giants Google, Facebook and Yahoo to screen user content from that country and nix anything "disparaging, inflammatory or defamatory," according to reports. Yahoo awarded $610M in spam case
Yahoo has won a lawsuit against spammers, a legal victory that also includes a default judgment of $610 million. India may overstep its own laws in demanding content filtering
India's reported plans to ask Internet companies to filter objectionable content may overstep the country's own laws, according to legal experts. Yahoo Messenger flaw enables spamming through other people's status messages
An unpatched Yahoo Messenger vulnerability that allows attackers to change people's status messages and possibly perform other unauthorized actions can be exploited to spam malicious links to a large number of users. Alibaba says no decision on joint Yahoo bid
Alibaba Group said it has not decided to be part of a bid for the whole of Yahoo, countering reports that the Chinese company is in talks with private equity firms to make such a bid. Start-up Agari debuts with security to stop fake e-mail, phishing attacks
Start-up Agari debuts today with cloud-based e-mail security services aimed at allowing enterprises and e-commerce companies to identify and block fake and spoofed e-mail exploiting their legitimate business domain names to conduct scams and phishing attacks. Yelp hopes to raise $100M in IPO
Yelp, a local business reviews site, filed Thursday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering (IPO) of up to $100 million. The Cloud, Day 7: Email in the Cloud
30 Days With the Cloud: Day 7 AOL/Microsoft/Yahoo ad deal: 'The devil is in the details'
The partnership AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft announced last week to sell each other's "tier 2" display ad inventory could yield great benefits, but they need to pull off a complex integration of business and technology to make it work. AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft tie up for display advertising
Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft have partnered to pool their display ad inventories and integrate their sales platforms so that they can offer each other's ads. Yahoo says ignore rumors, no changes -- yet
Yahoo said that its board's strategic review is still underway, with a wide range of options under active consideration, in the wake of unconfirmed reports that some private equity firms and technology companies are planning to invest in the Internet company. Google updates search algorithm, ups ante vs. Bing
Google is looking to freshen up its search results with updated algorithms, a move it hopes can help it maintain its strong lead in the search business. Yahoo to buy ad services provider Interclick for $270M
Yahoo said it has arrived at a definitive agreement to acquire Interclick, a provider of targeted advertising services, for about $270 million. Yahoo spinoff unveils Hadoop data analysis system
Yahoo spinoff company Hortonworks has released a preview edition of what will be a fully open source distribution of the Apache Hadoop data analysis platform, called the Hortonworks Data Platform, the company announced Tuesday. MarkLogic ties its database to Hadoop for 'Big Data' support
You can add MarkLogic to the growing list of database vendors rushing to embrace the open-source Hadoop programming framework for large-scale data processing. New IBM CEO latest in changes at tech companies
IBM's announcement Tuesday that company veteran Virginia Rometty will take over on Jan. 1 as president and CEO from Sam Palmisano is the latest in high-profile changes at the top in key technology companies, including Apple, Yahoo, and Hewlett-Packard. Chrome bug no security threat, argues Google
Google's Chrome contains a critical vulnerability that under certain circumstances allows attackers to plant malware on a Windows PC, a security company said last week. Google: Bidding for Yahoo or driving up cost for Microsoft?
The pursuit of Yahoo seems to be heating up as a report Monday added Google to a list of interested suitors that is already said to include Microsoft. Yahoo Sale Buzz Mounts as Google Said to Be Possibly Interested
Yahoo's improving stock price following a CEO shakeup makes the Internet portal ripe for a sale, and speculation is flying about industry titans that may bid for the company. Wall Street Beat: Tech sales strong in third quarter
Against a backdrop of economic uncertainty, a raft of third-quarter earnings reports this week from some of the biggest players in IT showed that while tech sales remain strong overall, there are some weak spots that are stirring concerns among market watchers. Is Microsoft gunning for Yahoo again?
The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that Microsoft is preparing a new bid to buy struggling Yahoo, which has prompted widespread speculation in the blogosphere. Ballmer touts Bing; analysts still wary about its future
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Tuesday touted the success of the Bing search engine in the back yard of rival and search king Google. OpenFlow and SDN: Networking's future?
The future of networking will be defined by software. That was the overriding theme after the first day of the inaugural Open Networking Summit, a conference dedicated to software-defined networking (SDN)and OpenFlow, the open source API defined to enable multivendor switches and routers to be programmable. Yahoo profits sink on weak ad sales
Yahoo reported steep declines in revenue and profit for the third quarter, pulled down by weak ad sales and the failure of its search partnership with Microsoft to yield strong returns. Levinsohn: Yahoo is doing fine
Ross Levinsohn, Yahoo's executive vice president for the Americas, on Monday downplayed the notion that the recent firing of CEO Carol Bartz has the company in an upheaval. Facebook is not free
The economics of much of the Internet is built on two valuable commodities: your time, and your content. Web 2.0 Summit to focus on value, pitfalls of online data
This year's Web 2.0 Summit will focus on the critical role that online data plays in the Internet economy and on how its use and misuse can make the difference between success and failure in markets like online gaming, Web advertising, search, social media and mobile. Bing, Yahoo sponsored results lead to hard-to-remove rootkit
Searching for Flash Player on Bing and Yahoo can lead to rogue pages distributing a hard-to-remove rootkit, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor GFI Software. Yahoo Mail site lets visitors visualize global email flow
Yahoo plans to open a site that lets people see on an interactive world map the volume of e-mail that the company's Mail service is processing. Man charged with hacking Scarlett Johansson, other celebs
A 35-year-old man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he broke into the email accounts of numerous Hollywood celebrities and stole private photographs and correspondence. Which Browser Has Your Back? That Would Be Firefox
Hard on the heels of recent reports that Google's Chrome browser may overtake Firefox by year's end, Mozilla on Monday released its annual “State of Mozilla” report including rosy financial results and a discussion of its efforts moving forward. Google rises, Yahoo drops in U.S. search market
After slipping to a two-year low in August, Google inched back up in the U.S. search market last month, according to comScore. Mozilla relies on search deals for 98% of revenues
Mozilla today said that income from its search partners, including rival browser maker Google, increased by 19% last year. Microsoft may bid again for Yahoo, report says
Just three years after a failed attempt to buy Yahoo, Microsoft may be considering whether to try again, Reuters reported today. Microsoft tries to make Hotmail cool again with overhaul
Microsoft announced several new automatic features aimed at cleaning up Hotmail accounts and helping users organize piles of so-called graymail. Yahoo, ABC team up for news alliance
Yahoo, looking to fight its way back to being an A-list online player, announced today that it is teaming up with ABC News Alibaba's CEO interested in buying Yahoo
Jack Ma, chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group, said on Friday at an event at Stanford University that he was interested in acquiring Yahoo, according to reports, making this the first public overture by the Chinese company which is about 40 percent owned by Yahoo. CIOs Are in a Mobile State of Mind
When the "kill the laptop" breakout session was an unexpected success at our last event, CIO magazine editor in chief Maryfran Johnson knew mobility had become the hottest topic in IT. New face, same challenges at HP
HP has put the rumors to rest by replacing CEO Léo Apotheker with Meg Whitman, but the big questions swirling around the company are anything but resolved. Yahoo News gets integrated with Facebook
The U.S. edition of Yahoo News has been linked with Facebook to make it possible for users of the two sites to share with their Facebook friends the articles they have read on the Yahoo site. Google reportedly working on Flipboard app rival
Google will soon launch a social news magazine for iPads and Android tablets called Propeller, according to reports. The app would compete with the popular Flipboard app on the iPad, which Google tried to buy but its offer was refused. Google slips to lowest search share in two years
Google's share of the U.S. search engine market has dropped below 65% for the first time in two years, new data shows. Social networks eat up Americans' online time
A new survey shows that Americans are increasingly transfixed with social networking sites, with Facebook is grabbing more of our time than any other blog or social media. Certificate hacker probably paid by Iran, say victimized firms
The CEO of Comodo, a certificate-issuing company hacked in March, is even more certain now that a wave of attacks against similar firms is backed by the Iranian government. Report: Yahoo board not focused on finding new CEO for now
Days after giving Carol Bartz the pink slip, Yahoo's board of directors is focused on deciding whether the company should be sold, not on finding a new CEO, according to a report on Saturday in The Wall Street Journal. Without Bartz, will Yahoo rebuild or sell?
With Carol Bartz out as CEO at Yahoo, speculation is rampant that the board of directors is looking to sell the struggling company. QuickPoll: Are Yahoo's best days behind it?
Yahoo's board ousted Carol Bartz from her CEO chair this week, and with her out of the way analysts say Yahoo must refocus or it will die. Can the Web giant turn things around? With Bartz out, Yahoo must refocus or die
With Yahoo languishing in the face of competition from the likes of Google and Facebook, the Tuesday ouster of CEO Carol Bartz gives the company a chance to refocus and reinvigorate itself, analysts said. Bartz couldn't deliver Yahoo turnaround
As she approached her third anniversary as Yahoo's CEO, Carol Bartz couldn't overcome a recent string of missteps that apparently eroded the board's confidence in her and eclipsed her achievements as leader of the embattled Internet pioneer. Confirmed: Carol Bartz out as Yahoo CEO
Carol Bartz has been fired from her job as Yahoo CEO and replaced on an interim basis by the company's chief financial officer, Tim Morse, Yahoo said on Tuesday. Sparrow 1.3.1 handles your IMAP-based email
Light, fleet, and beautiful to behold, the Mac email app dubbed Sparrow does nothing but IMAP-based email in an efficient and elegant fashion. Hands-on: Sparrow 1.3.1
Light, fleet, and beautiful to behold, the email app dubbed Sparrow (Mac App Store link) lives up to its name. Free from extraneous features, Sparrow does nothing but IMAP-based email in an efficient and elegant fashion. Tech groups oppose Internet sales tax bill
Several tech trade groups oppose a bill that would require Internet retailers to collect sales tax. If Facebook wants to woo businesses, it should try a little customer service
The company is making billions, and its real assets are all of us users that it's constantly abusing. Yahoo, Facebook,Google to IETF: Where are the IPv6 users?
Where are the users? That's what popular websites including Yahoo, Google and Facebook are asking the Internet engineering community when they are questioned about their long-range plans to deploy IPv6. Senators push for high-skill immigration reform
Two U.S. senators pledged to open up the nation's borders to highly skilled immigrants, with lawmakers arguing that the U.S. is turning away some of the world's smartest people. Wall Street Beat: Tech earnings show sector strength
A raft of computer and software vendor financial results this week, including reports from IBM, Intel, Apple and Microsoft, revealed some record quarterly results and a healthy market for business technology, though clouds remain for segments of the consumer arena. Yahoo Q2 revenue drops as display ad business slows
Yahoo's total revenue took a steep dive in the second quarter as it struggled in display advertising, a core market where it has historically been a leader. The company managed to increase its profit by 11 percent, however. Yahoo builds ultimate private cloud
Imagine the kind of infrastructure needed for a website fielding 1.5 million requests per second. That was one of the challenges faced by Yahoo's Todd Papaioannou, vice president of cloud architecture. NBA star Wade goes after alleged Texas hackers
His Miami Heat team lost the NBA finals to the Dallas Mavericks last month and now Dwyane Wade is headed back to a Texas court, but not to play basketball. User satisfaction study: Facebook vulnerable to Google+
User satisfaction with Facebook is low enough that the social networking site risks losing significant market share to Google+, according to a new study. Wall Street Beat: Google stirs market optimism
Google's surprisingly strong earnings helped spark renewed confidence in the tech sector in advance of a raft of vendor earnings announcements next week, as shares of bellwether IT companies led markets upward Friday. Emissions from Microsoft, Dell data centers worry residents
Some residents of Quincy, Washington, home of massive data centers operated by Microsoft, Yahoo and others, are growing concerned about pollution from backup diesel generators at the data centers, and on Wednesday they'll have the chance to discuss the issue. Google suspends Realtime Search as Twitter deal expires
Google has temporarily suspended its Realtime Search service, and neither Google nor Twitter will say if theyre working toward re-establishing an agreement that will have Twitter onboard when the service comes back online. How Japan's data centers survived the earthquake
Smart construction and good planning allowed Japan's data centers to escape virtually unharmed from the massive earthquake that rocked the country in March, a Japanese data center executive said Thursday. Yahoo chairman backs CEO Bartz, but investor wants her out
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was backed by the company's chairman at the start of the company's annual shareholder meeting on Thursday, but got ripped by an investor who called for her resignation. Google's new search features put pressure on Bing
With Google now touting new image and voice search tools, Microsoft needs to keep up or risk falling behind the evolving search race. Yahoo releases search tools for iPhone, Android apps
Yahoo wants to help people find mobile applications and information about them. IPv6 Day only a beginning, researchers say
World IPv6 Day boosted the amount of native IPv6 traffic on the Internet, but it mostly increased the use of transitional protocols that won't help to solve the looming shortage of IPv4 addresses, according to researchers studying data from Wednesday's event. Google, Facebook promise new IPv6 services after trial
One day after completing a successful 24-hour trial of IPv6, Facebook, Google and Yahoo said at a joint press conference that they would begin permanently supporting this upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol on some of their key websites. AT&T says it needs T-Mobile spectrum
AT&T defends its reasons for proposing to acquire rival T-Mobile. No news is good news on World IPv6 Day
World IPv6 Day, a 24-hour trial of next-generation Internet services, is going as smoothly as participating websites had hoped, sparking comparisons to the dawn of the new millennium passing without any Y2K-related incidents. So far, so good with World IPv6 Day
With World IPV6 Day in full swing, the test flight of the Internets new communications protocol is going smoothly. IPv6 traffic surges at launch of World IPv6 Day
A surge of IPv6-based Web traffic began flowing over the Internet last night when World IPv6 Day began, according to data gathered by Arbor Networks. Facebook raring to give IPv6 a test flight
After helping to hatch the plan for World IPv6 Day set for Wednesday, a senior network engineer at Facebook is raring to test the site's reworked network. Can't reach your favorite site? IPv6 may be to blame
A small number of Internet users will experience delays or time-outs as they attempt to visit Facebook, Google, Yahoo and other popular websites tonight and tomorrow, due to a 24-hour trial of a new Internet standard called IPv6. Hackers may try to disrupt World IPv6 Day
Hundreds of popular websites -- including Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Bing -- are participating in a 24-hour trial of a new Internet standard called IPv6 on June 8, prompting worries that hackers will exploit weaknesses in this emerging technology to launch attacks. Comcast expands IPv6 trial
Comcast has expanded its IPv6 trial, adding hundreds of cable modem subscribers in the San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago and Miami areas to participants in Littleton, Colo., that have been operational all year with this next-generation Internet service. Hotmail and Yahoo users also victims of targeted attacks
Web mail users at Yahoo and Hotmail have been hit with the same kind of targeted attacks that were disclosed earlier this week by Google, according to security software vendor Trend Micro.
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