Yahoo is ensuring that you don’t get wet or stranded in heavy snow with an update to its Weather app wherein it will alert you 15 minutes before rain or snow. “Yahoo…
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Microsoft, Yahoo update search partnership deal
Tech giants Yahoo and Microsoft on Thursday announced they have revised their search partnership deal with key changes to maintain a “strong and productive” alliance. The partnership deal, which was agreed in…
Yahoo, Microsoft extend search alliance re-negotiation deadline by 30 days
Tech giants Yahoo and Microsoft have mutually agreed to extend re-negotiation deadline of the search deal between the two by 30 days. The partnership deal, which was agreed in 2010 by Yahoo’s…
Yahoo wants its users to forget login passwords
Yahoo has introduced a new feature dubbed ‘On-demand passwords’ which eliminates the need to remember passwords. The new feature lets users log into their Yahoo accounts using a short password which the…
Yahoo’s gain is Google’s loss
Yahoo’s inclusion as the default search choice in Mozilla’s Firefox browser in the U.S. has given the search engine a major boost, helping it achieve its biggest share gain since 2009. According…
Bing, Yahoo search engines back on track post brief Friday outage
Microsoft’s Bing and Yahoo search engines suffered a temporary outage on Friday, all because of a bad code update. While Bing recovered from the outage in less than half an hour time,…
Yahoo to host its first ever mobile developer conference early next year
Following the footsteps of tech giants Google, Facebook, Apple and Samsung, Yahoo has announced and scheduled its first ever Mobile Developers Conference on Feb 19, 2015 in San Francisco. According to a…
Ebola is the most searched term of 2014 on Yahoo
Ebola is the most searched topic on Yahoo for the current year, a new report has claimed. The topic has managed to outdo all celebrities and gadgets to win for itself the…
Microsoft, Yahoo start acting on ‘right to be forgotten’ requests
After Google, it’s now Yahoo and Microsoft’s Bing who have begun scrubbing search results for Europeans under the ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling. The latest move comes in wake of a May…
Mozilla Firefox ditches Google in favour of Yahoo as default search engine
Mozilla and Yahoo have inked a deal that will see the former replacing Google as its default search engine on Firefox’s Web browser in the US on desktop as well as mobile…
Yahoo takes video advertising platform BrightRoll into its fold for $640 million
Yahoo, on Tuesday, announced that it has acquired San-Francisco-based video advertising platform BrightRoll for $640 million in cash. Announcing the acquisition, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer in a statement said “BrightRoll is a…
Flickr for iPad updated with live filters, editing tools, search feature
Flickr for iPad has been updated with live filters, set of professional editing tools as well as a new search feature. Yahoo, while announcing the update revealed, “users all over the world…
Yahoo to soon shut down Yahoo Education, Qwiki, and Directory
Tech giant Yahoo on Friday announced three of its old school products – Yahoo Education, Qwiki, and Yahoo Directory – are soon going to die. Yahoo Directory, one of the company’s oldest…
Yahoo acquires India-based cloud docs startup Bookpad
Yahoo’s acquisition spree has just hit India as the tech giant bags Bangalore-based year-old startup Bookpad, which specializes in providing cloud-based document hosting and editing capabilities. The yet-to-be official acquisition has cost…
Yahoo Weather for iOS devices updated to show live weather effects
The app has been updated for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.