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Yahoo! and Microsoft extend tricky search deal talks by 30 days
Can Redmond and the Purple Palace continue to hang tough?
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Yahoo shows off password-free logins and new encrypted email technology
Passwords are terrible: they're inefficient and they're often insecure, too. Many leading tech companies have embraced two-factor authentication as a more secure option, but they're optional and only those particularly concerned about their digital identities take the time to set it up. That's why Yahoo is taking a new approach, called "on demand" passwords.
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A sad story from Marissa Mayer's Yahoo shows how brutal corporate realignments can be
Last week, Yahoo fired about 100 people. The firings were part of a strategic realignment. Over the weekend, we heard a story from two sources that's a reminder of how painful such corporate realignments can be for employees on the ground. Yahoo has an office in Amman, Jordan. For a while now, it's been known there that the office was closing. In fact, it was supposed to close by the end of 2014. Most of the people who used to work in the office have been out of a job for a while now.
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Sources: Marissa Mayer is firing people at Yahoo
According to several sources, many people are losing their jobs at Yahoo today. Management is describing the firings as part of an organizational realignment, or restructuring, and not as a general layoff.
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Apple's $178 Billion in Cash Would Buy SO MUCH WEED
yep. lol
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Yahoo rallies as firm reveals plan to spin off remaining Alibaba stake
Yahoo promised to find a way to reduce the taxes it owes when it sells shares of Alibaba and now it has a plan to do so.
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Community returns March 17th on Yahoo
ommunity returns! The former NBC comedy, which was picked up for a sixth season by Yahoo, will premiere Tuesday, March 17th with two episodes, followed by one episode each week after that. By our count, that means episode 13 — the sixth season finale — will broadcast June 2nd. Plan accordingly. Yahoo has released a small promo video announcing the return date, featuring creator Dan Harmon, new cast member Paget Brewster...
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Yahoo Directory Closes, Five Days Early
he Yahoo Directory, the core part of how Yahoo itself began in 1994, officially closed today, five days ahead of when Yahoo had said the end would come. If you try to reach the Yahoo Directory at its long-standing address of http://dir.yahoo.com. you’ll now be redirected to a new location of https://business.yahoo.com/ with a home page carrying a “Yahoo Small Business” logo...
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Rejected Gwyneth Paltrow for Lack of College Degree
Since becoming Yahoo CEO two years ago, Marissa Mayer has been the center of intense scrutiny. A former Google executive, Mayer was drafted to turn around the once great Yahoo, but her tenure has been marred by odd strategic decisions, attempts to jump onto the premium TV bandwagon, courting star journalists and celebrities, management issues and flat revenues, according to a lengthy piece in The New York Times Magazine.
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Yahoo Starts Selling Flickr Users' Photos
Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that Yahoo! will begin selling prints of 50 million Creative Commons-licensed images uploaded by Flickr users as well as an unspecified number of other photos uploaded by users that will be handpicked from Flickr. Images bearing a Creative Commons licenses that allow for commercial use will be sold as canvas prints for up to $49 each with no payments going to the image owners.
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Firefox 34 Launches With Yahoo As Its Default Search Engine
Mozilla today rolled out Firefox 34. While most browser updates these days aren’t all that exciting, this one includes a couple of interesting new features. What most users in North America will notice right off the bat, however, is that this is the first version of Firefox with Yahoo as its default search experience.
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Fight Over Yahoo’s Use of Flickr Photos
About twice a week, someone asks Liz West ’s permission to use one of the nearly 12,000 images the amateur photographer has uploaded to the photo-sharing site Flickr over the past decade. Ms. West is usually happy to comply. One woman in England created notecards using her floral pictures and sent her 100 cards in appreciation, she said. Vermont Castings, a stove and fireplace maker, used one of Ms. West’s photos on its website and shipped her a small stove as a gift.
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In major shift, Firefox to use Yahoo as default search engine - CNET
Google's 10-year run as Firefox's default search engine in the US is over. Yahoo wants more search traffic, and a deal with Mozilla will bring it.
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Marissa Mayer’s Boring Plans for Yahoo
In Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s “The Little Prince,” the narrator begins his tale with a description of an unusual snake that he drew as a child: it was narrow at both ends and bulging in the middle, because it had swallowed an elephant. Grownups, tragically lacking in imagination, kept mistaking the misshapen snake for a hat.
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Flush With Alibaba Cash, Yahoo Reportedly Looks to Invest in Snapchat
Yahoo is reportedly investing in Snapchat, its first major move since the web giant received an influx of cash from the Alibaba IPO. The investment will value Snapchat at $10 billion, according to the The Wall Street Journal, although no details are currently available as to how much of the messaging company Yahoo is buying.
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Yahoo is Killing Its Web Directory, And With It A Little Bit of the Internet's Soul
I happen to remember the very first thing I did on the World Wide Web. It was the fall of 1994, and I performed a search for websites about one of my favorite comic strips, George Herriman's Krazy Kat. I was amazed by how many there were, and how easy it was to find them. (There might have been as many as fifteen or twenty.)
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The NSA Was Going to Fine Yahoo $250K a Day If It Didn't Join PRISM
When we first learned about NSA metadata collection, we wondered how readily the biggest tech companies acquiesced to the government. Today we start to find out. This is the story of how Yahoo was coerced into PRISM, as told by court documents cited by the Washington Post today.
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Yahoo officially passes on Enlisted
In an obvious message to TV fans across the world who hoped their favorite cancelled shows would find new life on the Internet, Yahoo has swung its mighty scepter and declared that Fox’s short-lived military comedy Enlisted would not be given another chance at life.
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Yahoo Buys Mobile Analytics Firm Flurry For North Of $200M
Yahoo has made no secret of its ambitions and advances in mobile, earlier this month reporting 450 million monthly active users and search and display mobile ad revenues growing 100%. In CEO Marissa Mayer’s words, Yahoo is a “mobile first company.”
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We Need This: A Maps App That Algorithmically Finds You the Scenic Route
Here’s something nice: Researchers working out of a Yahoo lab in Barcelona are building a maps application that doesn’t just spit out the fastest path from A to B but instead endeavors to show you the most enjoyable one. What a concept! Is it too much to ask that the entire tech industry follow their lead?
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