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The Glory That Was Yahoo
For one brief shining moment, Yahoo was the king of all it surveyed. Then everything went to hell.
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Firefox reverts to Google search engine, ending deal with Yahoo
Last week, Mozilla unleashed Firefox Quantum, a new version of its popular web browser that makes all manner of improvements to the experience. One particularly interesting tweak is the fact that its stock search engine is now Google, rather than Yahoo. In November 2014, Mozilla inked a deal with Yahoo that would see the company’s search services integrated into the Firefox browser. The deal was set to be in place for five years, but the developer decided to cut it short in order to deliver a better product to its users.
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Four years later, Yahoo still doesn't know how 3 billion accounts were hacked
On Wednesday, in a security hearing that called both Equifax and Yahoo's past and present executives to Washington, D.C., we're learning a bit more about what Yahoo didn't know about the biggest hack in history. When pressed about how Yahoo failed to recognize that 3 billion accounts — and not 500 million as first reported — were compromised in what was later revealed to be a state-sponsored attack by Russia, former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer admitted that the specifics of the attack still remain unknown.
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Former Yahoo CEO apologizes for data breaches, blames Russians
Former Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer apologized on Wednesday for two massive data breaches at the internet company, blaming Russian agents for at least one of them, at a hearing on the growing number of cyber attacks on major U.S. companies.
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AIM will shut down after 20 years
It’s a sad moment: AIM, AOL’s long-running instant messenger service that was core to many people’s first social experiences on the internet, will shut down once and for all on December 15th.
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Yahoo now thinks all 3B accounts were impacted by 2013 breach, not 1B as thought
Internet giant Yahoo's massive 2013 security breach has dealt the company yet another blow. Today Yahoo sent out a notice disclosing that a further..
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Yahoo didn’t kill Tumblr but Verizon surely will
The soft touch of Yahoo versus the suspected iron fist of Verizon.
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Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer resigns
It’s now official. After Yahoo shareholder approval last week, Verizon today announced that it has finally closed its acquisition of Yahoo, which it plans to combine with its AOL assets into a subsidiary called Oath, covering some 50 media brands (including TechCrunch) and 1 billion people globally. It will be led by Tim Armstrong, who was the CEO of AOL before this.
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Dissecting Marissa Mayer’s $900,000-a-Week Yahoo Paycheck
Yahoo’s chief executive presided over the decline and sale of the company. But she delivered big rewards to investors.
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Marissa Mayer Set to Receive $186 Million for Failing Because This Is How Corporate America Works
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer continues to stack up piles of cash, despite her veritable failure to rescue the company from a pile of its own rot. After numerous setbacks, including two massive security breaches and dwindling ad revenue, Mayer is set to make about $186 million as a result of the company’s sale to Verizon, new SEC documents show.
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Verizon is mashing Yahoo and AOL into a new company called Oath
The next chapter in Yahoo’s strange journey from cornerstone of the early internet to aged Verizon subsidiary is a bold rebranding.
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Luxury Car Buff 'Mr. Karim' at Center of Russia Yahoo Hack
When Karim Baratov said on Facebook he’d paid off a mortgage and drove a BMW 7 series at high school, classmates thought he had rich parents. The money may have come, instead, from a secret life as a cyber hacker, including work for Russia’s top spy agency, according to charges filed on Wednesday.
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A 22 year old Canadian arrested over massive Russian hack of 500 million Yahoo accounts
A 22-year-old Canadian man is one of four men arrested in connection with the theft of 500 million Yahoo user accounts in early 2014. Karim Baratov, a dual national of Kazakhstan and Canada, is accused of being a hacker-for-hire contracted by two members of the Russian intelligence agency FSB, according to a release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Baratov and the three other men – two Russian spies and a hacker on the FBI’s most wanted cyber criminals list – are facing charges of criminal espionage...
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DOJ to announce charges in Yahoo hacks
The Justice Department is expected to announce charges as soon as Wednesday related to hacking attacks that compromised millions of Yahoo user accounts, according to a U. S. official. The official, who is not authorized to comment publicly, declined to elaborate. The Justice Department has scheduled an announcement Wednesday morning.
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer to get $23 million severance
Marissa Mayer is about to lose her CEO job, but she's in for a nice consolation prize. Mayer is set to receive a $23 million severance package after Yahoo's sale to Verizon is completed, according to a company filing Monday. The golden parachute package comes on top of the more than $150 million Mayer received in salary and stock awards since joining the company in 2012.
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Even after massive Yahoo bungles, CEO Marissa Mayer is set to take home millions
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will get a golden parachute package worth around $23 million if she's fired or leaves within a year of the company's takeover.
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It's Not Just Altaba. Here Are the 7 Worst Company Name Changes
To honor Yahoo's decision to name remaining assets "Altaba"
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Yahoo says Marissa Mayer will leave board after Verizon deal closes, will operate under new name Altaba
Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer will be resigning from the board after her company completes its acquisition by Verizon. She is not the only one to depart from the combined company, as cofounder David Filo, Eddy Hartenstein, Richard Hill, Jane Shaw, and Maynard Webb will be leaving. Eric Brandt will become the chairman of the board.
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What can you do with a billion Yahoo passwords? Lots of bad things
Now, Yahoo user data could be behind scores of spear-phishes or other breaches.
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How to delete or protect your Yahoo account
It's time to seriously consider deleting your Yahoo account. Can't? OK, here's what you can do to protect it.
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