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Yahoo may be trying to build a Siri and Google Now killer
Yahoo may be working on its own voice-based personal assistant to rival Apple's Siri and Google Now. A video has recently surfaced that shows the unreleased app running on an Android smartphone. The origins of the clip are unclear, though it may have been developed for internal purposes. In the video, we see the Android device mounted in a car. The driver turns on the engine, and without any voice prompts (or forward movement), the app recognizes that he's headed to the office.
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Yahoo Mail brings back the tabs it killed two months ago, with a twist
When Yahoo redesigned its webmail service two months ago, it got rid of tabs, a feature the company says often confused users when they had too many open. That feature was later replaced by a "recent" view, which showed the last few messages in a short list. Now Yahoo has brought tabs back with another feature designed to let users with tons of tabs quickly see what they're working on.
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Departing Yahoo Exec Nets $109 Million Golden Parachute, Report Says
Yahoo chief executive officer Marissa Mayer has been under a microscope ever since she took over the company in 2012. But now, with the pricey firing of chief operating officer Henrique de Castro, the former Googler is under even more scrutiny. De Castro will walk away from Yahoo with up to $109 million, according to reports citing research from Equilar, an executive compensation and corporate-governance data firm.
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Remeasuring Yahoo’s Alibaba Goldmine
Let’s go back in time. In 2005, Yahoo purchased 40 percent of the Chinese ecommerce company Alibaba for $1 billion. The move would later all but save the American company. While Yahoo, under the leadership of its yet-new CEO Marissa Mayer has shown fresh dynamism, and has rebuilt its reputation in the technology market as its mobile push has matured, the company’s core financial performance metrics have dragged.
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Marissa Mayer Won CES
What’s that old saying? Software will eat the world? That was never more evident than at CES 2014. Now that the dust has settled, the Gorkana Group has released a social insight report for the event, and one thing is instantly clear: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer won the show.
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Is time running out for Yahoo's Marissa Mayer?
Following lackluster earnings, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer stressed a turnaround would take years. Investors may not give her that much time.
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Yahoo’s Mayer Fails to Revive Growth 18 Months Into Job
Yahoo! Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer has failed to spur growth at the Web portal 18 months after taking the job -- and the outlook isn’t improving as advertisers continue spending their money elsewhere.
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Yahoo says email accounts hacked, passwords stolen
Usernames and passwords of some of Yahoo's email customers have been stolen and used to gather personal information about people those Yahoo mail users have recently corresponded with, the company said Thursday.
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Yahoo Hacked And How To Protect Your Passwords
Yahoo yesterday announced that Yahoo mail has been the focus of a co-ordinated hack and that at this time it has confirmed a number of users e-mail accounts have been compromised – you may be one of them (and if you are see below for my top tips on how to secure your passwords going forward). It is not clear how many users have been compromised, or exactly how. Yahoo don’t have a history of providing much information but it would be prudent for any Yahoo mail users to take precautions.
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How 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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Yahoo 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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Yahoo 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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Report: 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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Yahoo 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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Yahoo 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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Yahoo 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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Yahoo! 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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Can 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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How 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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Yahoo'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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