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Yahoo'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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Yahoo 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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Yahoo is the latest company ignoring Web users’ requests for privacy
“Do Not Track” has largely been a failure.
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Flickr 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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Yahoo 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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Yahoo 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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'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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Female 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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Yahoo 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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