Yahoo has just paid a 17-year-old Brit around $30 million for Summly, a news-reading app that uses an algorithm to summarize articles. The Web giant has already closed it down, with the intention of using its technology to overhaul its own news apps.
Thousands of Best Buy and Yahoo! employees are about to return to the workplace for the first time in a while. Here are 11 rules to live by now that you’re amongst other people all day long.
A couple of months after a pretty major revamp, the Flickr iPhone app has just received another update. New features include the ability to tag friends, faster uploads, volume up shutter release and more.
Yahoo and NBC have struck a deal to share some of their existing sports coverage as well as collaborate on the making of original sports-based content.
Opinion: Collaboration through social networks like Facebook and Yahoo Groups could literally hold the key to our world’s biggest problems. Which means they need to get a lot better, or we’re in trouble.
Following Mozilla's announcement that Google would remain as their default search engine, details have emerged that the new deal is considerably more lucrative than before.
While many colleges are attempting to keep up with current technological trends and advances, college students are becoming more picky when it comes to Wi-Fi access on campus.
It's been two and a half years since Microsoft birthed Bing, and according to Comscore, Microsoft's search engine is finally on the cusp of pulling even with Yahoo.
A judgment against spammers who ran a fake Yahoo lottery scheme inolving more than 11.6 million emails has resulted in the web company being awarded more than $610 million.
Reports have Silver Lake partners partnering with Microsoft and Andreessen Horowitz to buy a minority stake in Yahoo for as much as $3 billion. But can Yahoo be saved?
In a move likely to send counterfeit product sites scrambling for new homes on the Internet, a federal judge has ordered in favor of a fashion company seeking to protect the brand.
Internet giants have taken to the pages of The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and the Washington Times, to fight back against SOPA, the Internet censorship bill.
In an attempt to ward off the gnashing teeth of the law, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt has denied accusations by the Senate antitrust committee that the Internet giant is "overwhelmingly dominant" in search, and assured that Apple's Siri voice-control system is a "competitive threat."
Microsoft is one of a number of firms moving forward with plans to make a buyout bid of Yahoo, which some say could be bought for around $20 billion -- less than half what Microsoft bid for the company in 2008.
We've compiled quotes from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who spoke out on Bing, Android, Google+, cloud services, and a number of things at the Web 2.0 Summit.
Things didn't end so well when Yahoo rebuffed an unsolicited bid from Microsoft in 2008. Now the two may be back at the table again, under very, very different conditions.
In a bid to boost audience figures by making it easier to find video content, Yahoo has brought it all together under one site - Yahoo Screen. The company hopes bigger audience numbers and better targeting will lead to more advertising revenue coming its way.
With more people spending time on the popular social network each month, Facebook seems to have the public's attention and continues to dominate other Web properties in regards to time spent on the site.
An email from some of the top people at Yahoo appears to suggest that the company could be up for sale. The email also said that a srategic view of its options could take months.
Apple and Dropbox are the latest technology companies to back the Electronic Frontier Foundation's efforts to strengthen laws that protect our digital-centric activities.