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Yahoo Mail now comes with Dropbox built in

Yahoo has gotten its cloud storage solution, while Dropbox will sign up more users in a new partnership that's a perfect match for these companies.

Terms & Conditions: Dailymotion protects your privacy better than YouTube

When it comes to terms of service and privacy policy, Dailymotion may have YouTube (read: Google) beat.
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Yahoo buys Summly news app from Brit teen for an estimated $30m – then closes it

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.

R.I.P Yahoo Mail Classic Messenger, we hardly knew ye

Yahoo pared down its Messenger service again today. Say your goodbyes, and move on.
Return to Cubicles

For those returning to cubicle captivity, we salute you (and recommend the following)

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.
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The Digital Self: Confessions of a terrified telecommuter

Yahoo's decision to ban remote workers may make sense for that company. Here's hoping that other employers don't blindly follow suit.
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Yahoo updates Flickr iPhone app with tagging, faster uploads, volume shutter and more

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.
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Yahoo’s home page gets a Marissa Mayer facelift

Yahoo.com is about to look a whole lot different thanks to a major redesign announced today by CEO Marissa Mayer.

Flickr privacy flub exposes private photos for three weeks

Privacy settings on some Flickr photos had been changed, which Flickr chalks up to a bug, for three weeks. The bug has since been patched.

Aviary nabs another major partner, Photobucket, to use its image-editing tools

Strengthening its relationship base with high-profile Web services, Aviary announced that Photobucket will be implementing its image-editing tools.
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Google, Yahoo ad networks fund online piracy websites, USC report claims

A report from USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab claims that Google, Yahoo, and others are helping fund online piracy through advertising.
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Yahoo strikes deal with NBC Sports to share event coverage and news

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.

High stakes for social media: The fate of the world could literally be on the line

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.
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Sports lovers rejoice: Yahoo set to go all-out with this month’s Olympic coverage

Yahoo announced details of its extensive Olympic coverage on Wednesday, with all of its sites and apps getting involved in the sporting showcase.
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Yahoo’s income drops 5 pct during fourth quarter

Yahoo's new CEO Scott Thompson is promising swift action as Yahoo's fourth quarter financial show a five percent drop in income.
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China’s Alibaba hires U.S. lobbying firm

Alibaba has hired Washington lobbying firm Duberstein Group Inc., likely in a sign the company is planning to make a serious move in regard to Yahoo.
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Report: Yahoo considering sale of Asian assets

The Wall Street Journal reports Yahoo is in talks to sell its stake in Yahoo Japan and part of its stake in China's Alibaba...for a hefty fee.

More details on the Google/Firefox deal emerge, big numbers involved

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.
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Study: 60 percent of students won’t attend a college without Wi-Fi services

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.
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Comscore: Bing almost even with Yahoo in search rankings

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.

Yahoo awarded $610 million in judgment against spammers

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.
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How Facebook’s Open Graph could mold the news business

An early look shows that Open Graph is good for news sites, but what are the implications of relying on Facebook's sharing tools?

And the bidding for Yahoo begins

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?
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Federal judge orders Google, Facebook to “de-index” 700 domain names

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.
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Microsoft is officially looking into buying Yahoo

Yahoo and Microsoft sign a nondisclosure agreement, Microsoft officially looking into purchasing the aging internet company.
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Yahoo’s iconic neon billboard in SF to be torn down

The yellow and purple neon lights of Yahoo's iconic San Francisco, California, billboard will soon be shut off for good.
Google: U.S. government censorship, private user data requests on the rise

Internet titans fight SOPA with full-page NY Times ad [updated]

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.
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Eric Schmidt: Google not ‘dominant’ in search; Apple’s Siri a ‘threat’

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."
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Livestand takes on Flipboard: Our hands-on analysis

We go hands-on with Flipboard and new challenger Livestand to see which will hold our tablet-reading attention.

New releases from Yahoo, including its Flipboard clone Livestand

After laying low following some unsavory sale rumors and a reshuffling of its executive branch, Yahoo announces some major products.
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Microsoft moving forward in bid to buy Yahoo: report

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.

Steve Ballmer: “You need to be a computer scientist to use Android”

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.
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Hulu takes itself off the auction block and is no longer for sale

It seems as though Hulu did not like any of the several purchase offers it received as it announced Thursday that it is no longer for sale.

Microsoft might try to buy Yahoo… again

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.

Yahoo launches Yahoo Screen, pulls together all its video content

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.

Study: Average person spends nearly eight hours a month on Facebook

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.

Yahoo may be up for sale, strategic review could last months

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.
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Apple, Dropbox to lobby for greater digital privacy rights

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.