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+17 +1Yahoo Gives Up Hope
Yahoo, the last living fossil of the internet dinosaurs, is coming to grips with its own mortality. The lumbering tech giant once bought 48 acres of land in Santa Clara for a massive office expansion. Now it's turning the land into a parking lot. The land was purchased by Yahoo last decade, with Santa Clara approving a three million square foot, 13 building office park in 2010. But as the company fell on worse times, the project was put on hold.
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+19 +1Female Yahoo exec sued for sexual harassment
A high-level female Yahoo executive helping to lead the company's mobile-content efforts was named Friday in a state lawsuit filed by a woman working under her who accused the supervisor of sexually harassing her.
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+18 +1'Community' getting sixth season on Yahoo
Community is getting its sixth season. This fall, it'll head to Yahoo Screen for a 13-episode run, saving the show after it was canceled by NBC in May. "I am very pleased that Community will be returning for its predestined sixth season on Yahoo," series creator Dan Harmon says in a statement.
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+7 +1Yahoo Wants You to Linger (on the Ads, Too)
The Internet pioneer still attracts a huge audience, but advertising, its prime source of revenue, is steadily declining. Marissa Mayer, the chief executive, has decided that one way to reverse that decline is to turn the company into a media empire with a constellation of what it calls digital magazines on topics like food, technology, movies and travel.
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+16 +1Yahoo Drops 5% After Alibaba’s Updated F-1 Filing Indicates Slipping Margins
Yahoo’s stock, behaving as a proxy to Alibaba’s valuation, is down 5 percent today in midday regular trading, after the Alibaba’s updated F-1 filing indicated that its operating margins are declining.
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+7 +1Flickr removing Facebook and Google sign-in feature, making all users create accounts
Flickr recently posted up a message asking users that use the social services Facebook and Google will have to create accounts to use the service. Yahoo has been on an acquisition tear lately, acquiring dozens of small to medium companies, and it seems they are trying to create an all in one service to compete with the big boys. Let's see how it turns out. Check out the link below to read their announcement.
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+28 +1Yahoo is the latest company ignoring Web users’ requests for privacy
“Do Not Track” has largely been a failure.
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+21 +1Yahoo will stream a live concert every day for a year
Yahoo wants to be the next big music venue. Through a partnership with Live Nation, the concert ticketing company, Yahoo plans to stream a live concert every day for an entire year, featuring what Yahoo marketing chief Kathy Savitt describes as the "world's hottest bands and musicians." Yahoo says that it'll also keep 1,200 of its live song recordings around after the shows airs for "months and months" so that listeners can continue to stream them.
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+12 +1Yahoo's fired COO gets $58 million severance package
Yahoo's recently fired chief operating officer, Henrique de Castro, left the internet company with a severance package of $58 million even though he lasted just 15 months on the job. The disclosure in a regulatory filing may lead to more second-guessing of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's decision to hire de Castro as her second-in-command in October 2012.
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+23 +1Yahoo's growth anemic as turnaround chugs along
Yahoo Inc again posted anemic quarterly revenue growth as the Internet company's advertising business continues to lag its rivals.
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+30 +1How do you fix two-thirds of the web in secret?
When word of the Heartbleed bug first came out, news spread like a fire alarm — but it didn’t spread evenly. The vulnerability was spread across as many as two out of every three servers, which made a standard disclosure impossible. Some companies like Facebook got the news early, either from Google or OpenSSL itself, and were already patched when Monday’s news broke.
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+18 +1Can better encryption from Yahoo and others stop the NSA?
The tech industry, clearly fed up with the world’s biggest spy agency’s secret intrusions into its servers and systems, clearly intends to lock the backdoors on its own – but will it work?
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+3 +1Yahoo! Comes Up with Games Network and New Yahoo Classic Games for Web, iOS and Android
Great News for Game lovers. Yahoo! launches the Yahoo Games Network and Classic Games site for developers to create games for the Web, Android and iOS devices and distribute through its Network. Read this news and get details about it.
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+25 +1Yahoo director Max Levchin defends Marissa Mayer’s “buy everything” strategy, denies BuzzFeed purchase rumor
This morning we posted the full video of our PandoMonthly with PayPal/Glow/Affirm co-founder Max Levchin. It was a staff favorite– and for a series that has included Elon Musk, John Doerr, Reid Hoffman and many others– that is saying something.
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+13 +1Yahoo not veering off authentication path, just negotiating detours | ZDNet
Yahoo building toward standards-based single sign-on environment that will reach across its services, Internet
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+14 +1Yahoo to End Facebook, Google Sign-In on Its Web Properties
Facebook and Google loyalists: Time to dust off your old Yahoo ID. Yahoo plans to end the ability for users to sign in to the company’s various Web properties using Facebook or Google login credentials. That means that in the future, in order to access Yahoo-owned and operated sites, you’ll have to do it by signing in via a Yahoo login. The first site to end such support for Facebook and Twitter logins will be one of Yahoo’s fantasy sports properties, Yahoo Sports Tourney Pick’em.
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+39 +2Report: British spy agency collected millions of Yahoo users' images
A British intelligence agency reportedly intercepted and stored millions of images from Yahoo users' video chats.
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+12 +2Yahoo Gives CMU $10 Million to Invent a Better Siri
Yahoo’s future mobile apps could come with a dash of intelligence that lets them act like personal assistants. The company has made a $10 million grant to Carnegie Mellon University for a project called InMind, which is intended to create and test assistant-style services for mobile devices.
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+19 +1Yahoo reportedly tapping Yelp for local business data to improve its search engine
Yahoo has reached a partnership agreement with Yelp to integrate its valuable local business reviews and listings into Yahoo Search, The Wall Street Journal reports. The company is believed to have announced the collaboration internally with plans to implement the feature in the “coming weeks.”
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+7 +2How Yahoo Can Get Its Search Mojo Back From Microsoft
Yahoo reportedly wants out of a deal that ties its search services to Microsoft, and is preparing new technological initiatives to reclaim its position in the search market. According to Kara Swisher at Re/code, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is pushing two new initiatives called “Fast Break” and “Curveball” that could position Yahoo once again as a player in Web search and the lucrative search-advertising market that accompanies it.
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