Donald Trump won a Republican White House, Senate and House because he led a rebellion against the Democrats’ embrace of Silicon Valley’s business model, which profits from global trade, offshore labor and foreign skilled workers.
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.
There’s no denying it anymore. NFL ratings have dropped, with the Kaepernick protests as the top reason.
(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.
LONDON (AP) — As Yahoo’s embattled email service suffers through a slew of bad news, some users are finding it hard to leave.
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.
A federal lawsuit filed this week by Scott Ard, editor-in-chief of the Silicon Valley Business Journal, claims that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led an illegal “purge” of male employees from the company. Two other female executives are also named as defendants in the suit.
Yahoo is downplaying a report by Reuters claiming that the company scanned the emails of its users on behalf of the U.S. government.
(Reuters) — Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer did not prioritise protecting the security of its users before the massive cyber attack that affected 500 million accounts, according to a report from The New York Times.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo said hackers stole personal information from 500 million of its user accounts, a massive security breakdown it attributed to a “state sponsored actor.” The breach disclosed Thursday, the latest setback for the beleaguered internet company, dates back to late 2014.
Many people in the Silicon Valley online marketing ethosphere have called Gurbaksh Chanal a tech genius, but instead of continuing to jet around the planet as a the CEO of Gravity4, Chanal may be engaged full-time in a 12 month stint in prison.
Former Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn believes Twitter will not be an independent company within two years.
Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey may want to consider stealing a page from Yahoo boss Marissa Mayer’s playbook. The $13 billion social-media firm that he co-founded is mostly flapping about under his helm. Now would be a good time to look for a deep-pocketed suitor.
(Reuters) — When senior Yahoo executives gathered at a San Jose hotel for a management retreat in the spring of 2006, there was no outward sign of a company in crisis.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer complained about the “gender-charged” press during an interview with the Financial Times after Yahoo was sold to Verizon for $4.83 billion on Monday.
After months of trying to find a buyer, Yahoo will finally be sold to US telecommunication giant Verizon.
Verizon Communications Inc. will announce an agreement to buy Yahoo! Inc. for about $4.8 billion on Monday morning before NYSE trading begins in a deal aimed at challenging the Facebook and Google oligopoly.
Yahoo has written down a further $428 million of the estimated worth of Tumblr following its acquisition of the microblogging site in 2013. The site has now lost a staggering 50% of its original worth since it was acquired by
The end of an era approaches, as disastrous earnings reports herald the likely end of Yahoo, once an Internet search engine and email giant. Yahoo has been trudging to the corporate chopping block for months, so it’s no surprise that post-mortems began popping up over the weekend, before the axe officially came down.
LeEco, China’s leading online video company, paid about 5.2 million an acre to buy Yahoo’s raw land in Santa Clara. According to banking consultant Bruce Lawrance, the mega-valuation for developmental land zoned for light office/industrial stunned Silicon Valley real estate
Mashable has published a lengthy article explaining the decline of Tumblr and its parent company Yahoo as a result of CEO Marissa Mayer’s leadership, after interviewing multiple current and ex-employees.
SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) — Yahoo is hoping to auction off most of its technology patents as part of a purge that also could culminate in the sale of its internet operations.
On June 6 it was revealed that Yahoo–Katie Couric’s employer–was “caught off guard” by revelations that her film Under the Gun contained a misleading editorial pause which cast pro-gun advocates in a bad light.
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich had scheduled a fundraiser with Donald Trump at his Silicon Valley home on June 1, but it had to be canceled after someone leaked it to the media.
According to a recent SEC Filing, Yahoo has spent over $500,000 on security for CEO Marissa Mayer in response to “specific security threats” that she faced in 2015.
(Reuters) — The U.S. House of Representatives’ information technology team has blocked lawmakers from accessing software applications hosted on a Google cloud service to prevent possible hacking campaigns, two congressional sources said on Wednesday.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will walk away with a $55 million severance package if the company’s auction of its Internet operations culminates in a sale that ousts her from her job.
Everything you think of as Yahoo—apps, websites, employees, computers, buildings—has a negative value.
Shortlisted as a potential buyer of US Internet giant Yahoo, the Daily Mail has made an online empire out of the kind of content readers can’t resist clicking on. The parent company of the tabloid founded in 1896, Daily Mail
The parent company of British tabloid newspaper and website the Daily Mail is in discussions with “several” private-equity firms about a possible bid for Yahoo, The Wall Street Journal said Sunday. Although Yahoo was an early Internet pioneer and is
The parent company of British tabloid newspaper and website the Daily Mail is in discussions with “several” private-equity firms about a possible bid for Yahoo, The Wall Street Journal said Sunday. Although Yahoo was an early Internet pioneer and is
(Reuters) — Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) is ready to make a bid for Yahoo’s web business, and hopes to make a merger more successful by also making an offer for a stake in Yahoo’s Japan subsidiary, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing a source familiar with the matter.
According to some pages from the “book” that Yahoo bankers have given out to prospective buyers, the financial situation at the Silicon Valley Internet giant is becoming increasingly dire.
With the pubic distracted by the FBI battling Apple for an iPhone backdoor, President Obama is secretly working to trash President Ronald Reagan’s restrictions on the number of federal agencies that can spy on Americans and others.
With the FCC’s “Net Neutrality” policy undermining telecommunications companies’ business model, it looks like a bidding war may be spooling up for Yahoo!’s legacy email service.
One of the latest outlets to throw their hat in the eSports coverage ring is troubled tech giant Yahoo, who as Breitbart reported had reportedly expressed interest in purchasing North America’s leading eSports tournament organiser MLG before a deal with Activision Blizzard was struck.
Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer made a promise not to screw up the Tumblr acquisition, but now she’s about a quarter billion dollars south of keeping it.
A lawsuit has been filed against Yahoo after a former employee complained that the company was biased against men during a series of workforce layoffs between 2012 and 2015.