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As soon as Marissa Mayer was named Yahoo’s CEO, people were extremely loud about “saving” Flickr. What’s left of the passionate photo community have been waiting for innovation, something that they can get behind and feel good about when they’re spending their time using the site. On Wednesday, the company has released a completely overhauled Continue Reading →

Yahoo has announced a partnership with NBC Sports that will see the two pool their sports reporting, broadcasts and news coverage in an effort to build the US’s largest dedicated sports news platforms. The proliferation of media through blogs and social media has revolutionized the way fans take on news and watch events, but the Continue Reading →

Late Friday afternoon, Yahoo announced that it is cutting back on features for Yahoo Messenger, the instant messaging product it has offered users since March 1998. On December 14, 2012, Yahoo will be unceremoniously removing the following features from the IM client to trim it down: Public chat rooms: I couldn’t pin down when they Continue Reading →

It’s hard to say how serious this is right now, but Yahoo was ordered to pay $2.7 billion in a lawsuit related to a breach of contract and lost profits of a yellow pages listing service by Worldwide Directories and Ideas Interactivas. In a statement and a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Continue Reading →

A new exploit being sold for $700 may put tens of millions of Yahoo Mail users at risk. Once victims click on a malicious email link, the exploit allows an attacker to steal and replace tracking cookies, while remotely controlling the victims’ browsing sessions. “After the victim clicks the link, he will be redirected to Continue Reading →

The crazy thing is how successful Yahoo! was at this. Few, if any, have ever done content or media online at that scale. But then Google came along and exploited the fact that the Internet was growing too fast for Yahoo! to keep up. Suddenly, Yahoo! was struggling to find its way, as Google made Continue Reading →

Yahoo is looking to make a clean break with some aspects of its past with Marissa Mayer now at the helm — and one of those, it seems, could be its logo. A TC reader says that he was asked to take an online survey, “and it turned out to be all about asking me Continue Reading →

Yahoo has bought Stamped, the New York City based startup that lets people record and share their favorite restaurants, books, movies, and music, we’ve confirmed with a source at Stamped. The news has also been confirmed by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, who posted an Instagram of herself with the Stamped founders. The deal is part Continue Reading →

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has wasted no time in turning the Internet portal into a lean and mean Web machine since she landed the job in July. Next up on Mayer’s agenda after giving all Yahoo employees free iPhones and food is trimming all the bloat on the portal’s homepage. Business Insider claims the screenshot Continue Reading →

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer had a baby sometime Sunday night, according to a tweet by her husband Zach Bogue. The child is the couple’s first and it is not clear from the tweet whether he was delivered on September 30 or October 1. No matter — congrats to the new parents! Mayer announced her pregnancy Continue Reading →