In an effort to bolster local search, the company has bagged another start-up Zofari – ‘Pandora For Places’ app.
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Yahoo follows Google’s footsteps; promises encrypted email by 2015
In 2015, Yahoo Mail would be end-to-end encrypted, and will also be compatible with end-to-end encryption for Gmail, which Google is currently working on.
Yahoo scoops up Flurry to boost its mobile business
Yahoo: Our acquisition of Flurry will be a meaningful step for the company and reinforces our commitment to building and supporting useful, inspiring and beautiful mobile applications and monetization solutions.
Yahoo acquires RayV as it seeks stronger online video presence
The acquisition has finally been announced, rumours about which first emerged back in May.
Yahoo to map the most ’emotionally pleasant’ routes soon
It’s just going to take you a few extra minutes to go in the what is perceived to be the most scenic, quiet and happy route with Yahoo’s new algorithm to guide you!
Yahoo joins workforce demographics disclosure trend
Yahoo reports more number of female employees than Google, but still the workforce diversity statistics reveal – mostly male and mostly white!
Flickr closes doors for Facebook, Google logins
Yahoo’s move could help it garner more users, but the move could backfire as well considering there are other photo sharing services that provide both competitive storage options and social logins.
Nadella: No plans to give up Bing & Xbox
Speculations of Microsoft selling Bing or Xbox is nothing new and Nadella stresses once more: Bing & Xbox ‘Not for Sale!’
Yahoo takes over Snapchat’s rival Blink
Yahoo has acquired Blink, a mobile messaging app that lets users share self-destructing messages on Tuesday. The financial terms of the deal are yet to be disclosed. Following the acquisition, Blink, a…
Yahoo keen to replace Google on Apple devices?
Latest report claims that Yahoo’s Chief Executive Marissa Mayer is trying to persuade Apple to ditch Google for Yahoo as the default search engine on iOS devices. According to the Re/code report,…
Heartbleed bug turns into web’s security disaster
‘Heartbleed’ bug, the so-called security flaw in crucial encryption code, has made headlines this week as the most significant and dangerous vulnerability to ever hit the internet. According to security researchers, this…
Yahoo: Traffic moving between our data centres is fully encrypted
Yahoo has announced through a blog post that all the traffic between its data centres is now full encrypted, as a part of an ongoing project under which it intends to deploy…
Yahoo to launch its own YouTube rival
Latest reports reveal that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is apparently considering the idea of developing Yahoo’s own version of YouTube. According to a Re/code report, multiple sources “close to the situation” claim…
Government data requests surged by 120% in last four years claims Google
According to Google’s latest transparency report published on Thursday, data requests by government agencies have increased by more than 120 percent since 2009 when the company first began publishing the data request…
BT under investigation over alleged email data leak
UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is investigating BT in relation to a claim by a whistleblower that the company had ‘exposed user credentials en masse’. BT is moving customers from a Yahoo!…