In a leaked and eccentric internal email sent to Yahoo employees, the company slams Microsoft Outlook and urges workers to switch to Yahoo Mail, which only 25 percent have done since its revamp.
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After the recent spying scandal surrounding the NSA, many internet companies are doing their best to prove their services are secure. Yahoo will start encrypting all user data in the following months.
A judge said that Yahoo must continue with its previous agreement with Microsoft to deploy the Bing search engines to Yahoo's sites in Taiwan and Hong Kong, despite a request by Yahoo to slow it down.
Yahoo! is rolling out a new desktop design for its email service, which includes a way to view groups of emails as a conversation and more. Yahoo! is also launching Yahoo! Ad Free Mail for $49 a year.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has begun using her Twitter account in an effort to get users to switch to the company's services, retweeting and responding to those who promise to do so.
Yahoo were criticized when it was discovered they were complying with the NSA by allowing access to their 800 million users. Mayer has denied wrongdoing, and says she could have wound up in prison.
Yahoo! has officially debuted its new corporate logo today with a redesign that has a sleeker design compared to the original. The logo was made over one weekend this summer.
A new feature on Business Insider on how Marissa Mayer became the CEO of Yahoo claims that the previous CEO considered trading their search business to Microsoft in exchange for MSN.com.
comScore has revealed Yahoo! as the most popular US web property of July. It comes as a relief for newly appointed CEO Marissa Mayer, who has made many changes to outperform Google and Microsoft.
A new study shows that while 98 percent of the US can access broadband Internet service, about 20 percent of US residents still don't use the Internet at home, work or school or via a mobile device.
Yahoo! will be updating their logo on 4 September, but before that date they will be changing their logo every day for the next 30 days into what may be proposed updates that didn't make the cut.
Microsoft and Facebook were the only tech giants to lobby against the laws that allowed the NSA to conduct its PRISM program but even so, it wasn't a strong effort by either company.
Yahoo has announced it has close or will close a number of its products and services, including the old search engine AltaVista and the Yahoo Axis browser plug-in.
Data from ComScore shows that Microsoft's Bing search service gained another 0.1 percent market share in U.S. Internet search between April and May 2013, continuing its slow growth.
Yahoo has announced it has revamped its search results layout for web users, making them look more like the current Yahoo.com front page, along with some performance improvements.
Yahoo announced today at it's press event that it will be launching a new version of its Flickr online photo service, which will include a new UI and a whopping 1 TB of free photo and video storage.
Many Tumblr users are not happy that Yahoo have stepped in to buy the company, despite reports that it was finically unsound, and it looks like some users are voting with their feet.
It was just announced that Yahoo has bought Tumblr for approximately $1.1 billion dollars, close to what earlier rumors had predicted. Tumblr is one of the most popular blogging platforms in the world
A new report claims that Yahoo's board of directors has approved its acquisition of Tumblr for a whopping $1.1 billion, with Yahoo expected to officially reveal the deal tomorrow.
Yahoo have announced a 'product-focused' event will take place on Monday amid rumours of a possible acquisition of Tumblr. Will the rumours prove to be true or is this unrelated?
Yahoo supposedly wants the buy the super popular Tumblr to invigorate its user base and get a foothold in mobile marketing. However, they are scared of competing with Facebook for Tumblr's graces.
A report claims that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer would like to cut short the company's ten-year search engine deal with Microsoft, but may not be able to do that until 2015 at the earliest.
Yahoo has revealed it has extended its deal with Microsoft that guarantees Yahoo's revenue per search using Microsoft's Bing engine in the U.S. until March 31, 2014.
Yahoo has announced it will be shutting down the older versions of its Yahoo Mail website the week of June 3rd and will be closing a number of other services on April 30th.
Data from ComScore shows that Microsoft's Bing search service gained a 0.2 percent market share in U.S. search between February and March 2013, and has gained a total of 1.6 percent in the last year.
TechNet, a lobbying firm representing Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and more, have sent a letter to Congress in support of the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act.
A report by the Wall Street Journal has outlined talks between Yahoo! and Apple about a deeper integration of Yahoo! services to combat iOS' reliance on Google. Apple may also be considering Bing.
Yahoo has announced that it has acquired Summly, a news aggregator app made by UK-based Nick D'Aloisio when he was just 15 years old. Terms of the deal were not announced.
Yahoo has quietly launched a new Yahoo Sports news app for Windows 8 and Windows RT, and it's apparently an exclusive, at least for now, for Lenovo Windows 8 PCs.
Yahoo may be in talks to to purchase a 75% stake in video site Dailymotion as part of an ownership structure that is currently being considered. The site could be valued at around $300 million.
New data from ComScore shows that Microsoft's share of the US Internet search market keeps growing, as does Google, but Yahoo's share of the search market keeps shrinking.
Yahoo has released a major new update of its Yahoo Mail app for Windows 8, adding in a number of new features such as folder management support, a way to search inside the app and more.
Despite Yahoo's efforts to fix 'vulnerabilities', mail users have continued to see their accounts hacked. The company says two isolated security holes have been rectified, but the problems persist.
Best Buy is following Yahoo's lead in requiring users to show up to the office, thus eliminating the telecommuting option. Is this a sound business practice or a desperate move by the business?
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is implementing a new policy in June that will bar employees from working at home. According to a report, many company employees are irate at the move.
Yahoo has begun to roll out a new redesign of its main page that offers more options for users to personalize the information they see on the page, such as a news feed with infinite scroll.
New data from ComScore shows that Microsoft's share of the US Internet search market continues to grow, even as Google's market share also experienced growth as well.
Marissa Mayer, chief executive of Yahoo, said at a technology conference Tuesday that she's not satisfied with how the Yahoo-Bing search partnership is working for her company.
The latest Internet search market share numbers from ComScore show that Microsoft's Bing made some inroads against Google in December 2012.
Lycos, one of the biggest names in Internet search engines in the late 1990s and early 2000s, is planning to launch a new search engine it developed in house in 2013.
