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Recently discovered tweets from the front page editor of the Verizon-owned news outlet the Huffington Post feature anti-semitic, homophobic and anti-police sentiments.

A cell phone tracking company unintentionally leaked the real-time locations of millions of Americans due to a bug on their website.

Justice is investigating a potential plot to hinder a new technology called eSIM, short for embedded-SIM, the New York Times reported.

The Facebook scandal over selling customers’ deepest secrets for huge amounts of cash has accelerated signature-gathering efforts for a “Privacy Act” initiative on California’s ballot.

Facebook reportedly donated $200,000 to combat a data-privacy ballot initiative in California that would allow consumers to ban companies from sharing or selling their personal data.

Under the plans being discussed with technology leaders, the government would promote a 5G network but not own or build it.

With the 2017 NFL season now down in the record books as having lost another ten percent in TV ratings, the league has found a $30 million dip in ad revenue, a report says.

Dozens of companies have been accused of using targeted Facebook advertisements to exclude older users from job applications.

On Monday, Verizon announced a massive deal that will allow the media giant to “distribute live games and content” for the NFL.

Telecommunications company Verizon reportedly plans to begin a new program which rewards users for providing their personal data to the company.

Following their acquisition of Yahoo’s Internet services, Verizon is reportedly unable to rid itself of a number of lawsuits relating to a 2013 data breach.

A Verizon employee with a concealed carry permit fought back on Thursday, shooting an armed robbery suspect.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The chairman of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday asked chief executives from companies representing the two sides of the net neutrality debate, including Alphabet, Facebook, AT&T and Verizon, to testify at a Sept. 7 hearing.

Verizon has revealed that the personal data of six million users were exposed online.

Marissa Mayer, the controversial former Yahoo CEO who has now left the company following Verizon’s purchase, expressed her excitement to use Gmail again this week.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Verizon has taken over Yahoo, completing a $4.5 billion deal that will usher in a new management team to attempt to wring more advertising revenue from one of the internet’s best-known brands.

A group of major U.S. advertisers, including AT&T, Verizon, and Johnson & Johnson have withdrawn their advertising from Google, despite the company’s pledge to crackdown on “offensive” and “extremist” content.

The 2014 hack of Yahoo may have been the result of a phishing attack, according to a recent report.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo is taking a $350 million hit on its previously announced $4.8 billion sale to Verizon in a concession for security lapses that exposed personal information stored in more than 1 billion Yahoo user accounts.

Yahoo has warned users for the third time in less than six months that their email accounts may have been compromised.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is set to receive nearly $141 million merger pay following Verizon’s purchase of the company, despite the SEC launching an investigation into whether Yahoo intentionally covered up a widespread hack and leak of its users data for nearly two years.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is currently investigating Yahoo over their two large data breaches last year and whether the company notified investors too late, according to USA Today.

(Reuters) — A senior Verizon Communications Inc executive said on Thursday that the company was unsure about its planned acquisition of Yahoo Inc’s internet business.

Complex Networks and Verizon’s go90 have set the premiere date and announced the full cast for their political comedy series Embeds from executive producer Megyn Kelly.

(Reuters) — Yahoo Inc came under renewed scrutiny by federal investigators and lawmakers on Thursday after disclosing the largest known data breach in history, prompting Verizon Communications Inc to demand better terms for its planned purchase of Yahoo’s internet business.

Given that the Donald Trump victory already made Yahoo less attractive for Verizon, the latest billion-account-hack at Yahoo could let Verizon dump their buy-out and still collect a $145 million break-up fee.

Yahoo revealed on Wednesday that some employees at Yahoo knew of a large security breach in 2014, but the company did not reveal the security breach to users until September 2016.

(Reuters) — A Verizon Communications Inc executive said the acquisition of Yahoo Inc still makes sense, but the telecommunications company needs more information about the email provider’s massive breach of accounts.

(Reuters) — Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) said on Thursday it has a “reasonable basis” to believe Yahoo Inc’s (YHOO.O) massive data breach of email accounts represents a material impact that could allow Verizon to withdraw from its $4.83 billion deal to buy the technology company.

Verizon reportedly wants a $1 billion discount on its current $4.8 billion purchase of Yahoo, following the recent revelation of a hack that exposed over 500 million user account details and several controversies surrounding the company and its CEO, Marissa Mayer.

ATLANTA (AP) — A former Verizon Wireless technician is accused of using the company’s computers to obtain customers’ private call records – plus data showing where customers’ phones were – and then selling them to an unnamed private investigator, federal prosecutors said.

Disney has significant advantages over other bidders to acquire Twitter. First, Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey serves on Disney’s Board of Directors. But the biggest advantage is that Disney owns a 33 percent stake in BAMTech, the tech spinout from Major League Baseball that owns the app powering Twitter’s streaming of NFL games on the web.

Fox News host Megyn Kelly is set to produce a new comedy series centered on a group of overwhelmed journalists who cover elections out on the presidential campaign trail.

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida — Florida’s first hurricane in 11 years has left the Big Bend region without power and cellular service in the aftermath of the category 1 storm.

After months of trying to find a buyer, Yahoo will finally be sold to US telecommunication giant Verizon.