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Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer faces a showdown with activist investors on the company’s February 2 earnings call that could create another Twitter-style disaster.

A token female CEO who immediately goes on a disastrous spending spree? Colour me shocked!

Silicon Valley tech stocks that have led world stock markets up since the March 2009 bottom of Great Financial Crisis led markets down on January 15, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average tanking 537 points before recovering to a still

Sending messages to your fiancée? Your boss has a right to read them, according to a new ruling from the European Court of Human Rights.

Although Marissa Mayer has brought stability and mobile growth to Yahoo over the last three years, after the company went through four failed CEOs, activist hedge funds are bringing out the long knives to threaten dumping Mayer.

Yahoo is blocking users out of their own Yahoo Mail accounts until they disable any ad-blocking software being used.

A story is making the rounds on Facebook that claims Republican frontrunner Donald Trump is calling for “ID badges” for American Muslims. The image on the story is of Jewish children wearing yellow starts during the Holocaust. Very frightening–and a lie.

Elizabeth Holmes, tech’s most celebrated female CEO, might be a fraud. If investigative reporting in the Wall Street Journal is to be believed, Holmes is the lovechild of the tech hype cycle and Silicon Valley’s obsession with diversity icons.

Undertaking a revival of former NBC sitcom Community was a costly venture for Yahoo, and might hamper the company’s future plans to compete in the world of online original programming.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced on tumblr.com that she is pregnant with twins, but plans to approach her pregnancy and delivery by taking “limited time away” and “working throughout.” Mayer, 40, said her identical twin girls will likely be born in December. She and her husband Zachary Bogue already have a son.

Silicon Valley often gets knocked for a lack of diversity, but historically excluded groups are making an impressive showing at the top spot of the most valuable companies. Just looking at the top ten companies based in Silicon Valley by NASDAQ market cap, 40% are run by someone who is a woman, an immigrant, or non-white. By individual demographics, 20% are women, and 30% are foreign-born.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has clearly decidedly softened his anti-Donald Trump tone after attacks on the billionaire real estate magnate—his biggest 2016 intra-GOP competition at this point—have backfired.

Leaking information to reporters in Silicon Valley is an everyday occurrence. But a former employee at Yahoo is being sued for actually leaking passwords to confidential computer files inside the company to help a financial industry journalist write an unauthorized biography titled: “Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!”

With the help of former Today Show co-anchor Katie Couric, actress Michelle Pfeiffer is looking to nab her first starring TV role, in a series that will take a comedic look at a fictional morning news show.

The whiz kids of Silicon Valley are celebrating the GOP’s apparent collapse on Net Neutrality. The New York Times exults: “the little guys appear to have won.” It omits that the “little guys” are some of the richest people in America, and–by their own lights–the smartest. The odd thing is that the nerds who have an app for everythng seem to be unable to explain what Net Neutrality actually is, and why we need it. Case in point: Tuesday’s epic failure by Tumblr CEO David Karp on CNBC.

President Obama is hosting a cyber-security summit at Stanford University today, but three of the top tech companies in the United States won’t be represented there.

Apple already has a strong relationship with Yahoo as the default data source on the iPhone for the device’s very slick stocks and weather apps. After Alibaba’s September public offering gave Yahoo billions in cash, Mayer appears willing to go to war with Google to bring search dominance back to Yahoo.

Marissa Mayer appears to be gaining traction in a turnaround of an Internet pioneer that most of Wall Street thought would be impossible.

Is the search-engine market ready for a little dash of creative destruction? We’ve grown accustomed to a landscape dominated by the formidable Google mountain, their company name becoming the preferred euphemism for the very act of using a search engine.

Like most female tech executives, Marissa Mayer is a feminist’s worst nightmare. For one thing, she is ruthlessly focused on merit, claiming to be “gender blind,” which annoys women-in-tech campaigners no end. They say women should be given special consideration

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow failed to qualify for a job at Yahoo because she reportedly didn’t meet the educational requirements. Paltrow, who authored a best-selling cookbook and founded the online lifestyle publication GOOP, was up for consideration as a contributing editor

The New York Times has a lengthy piece on the rise and fall of Yahoo – the Internet giant that pioneered Web searches, helped define the Internet experience by creating a unified start page that still has over 700 million visitors a

Scientists in Brazil warn that the waters around Rio de Janeiro contain a “super bacteria” that could threaten the health of Olympic athletes who compete in the sports on the ocean. The bacteria is caused by the tons of untreated

In his first major public act as the new Archbishop of Sydney, Anthony Fisher told the congregation present for a memorial service Tuesday that “hell has touched us,” adding that “the heart of our city is broken by the deaths

China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang expressed his appreciation for Pope Francis’ decision not to meet with the Dalai Lama, who was in Rome for a summit of Nobel Peace Prize winners. Qin said Monday that China had “noticed” the

The world’s smallest nation wants to host the biggest athletic event. The pope has endorsed Rome’s bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and wants Vatican City to host a small number of events. Speculation of just what sports the

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is under fire from human rights groups, the European Union, and international journalist associations for a mass arrest of 27 newspaper, television, and film workers considered to be critics of the Erdogan government. According to Agence

France may be one of the more secular states in Europe, but according to a study released Sunday, seven out of ten French (71%) favor the presence of Christmas crèches in public spaces. The highest percentage of approval came from

A growing protest movement that has held weekly displays against Germany’s lax immigration laws and Islamist-friendly policies has met strong resistance through the country’s politicians, the news media, and Europe’s multiculturalist establishment. The protests against radical Islam were organized by

This article originally appeared in the Daily Beast. Nigeria is facing a rise in female teenage suicide bombers at the service of terror group Boko Haram.  Residents of northern Nigeria are more on edge than ever. On top of a

Reverend Jesse Jackson and his Rainbow PUSH road show flew into Silicon Valley this week to chastise top tech corporations for being overly white and Asian males. Jackson, who was hosted by Intel Corporation at their Santa Clara campus,  lectured

The Irish parliament on Wednesday voted in favor of Irish government recognition of a Palestinian state. The motion passed unopposed. The non-binding motion called on the Irish government to “officially recognize the State of Palestine, on the basis of the

The United States officially ended its combat operations in Afghanistan, a country that a U.S. watchdog says has a fiscally unsustainable force with questionable capabilities to fight terrorist groups and a growing opium economy perpetuated by widespread corruption.   U.S. and

The Heisman Committee has announced its finalists for the 2014 Heisman Trophy, honoring the nation’s most outstanding college football player.  The committee invited University of Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota, University of Alabama receiver Amari Cooper, and University of Wisconsin running

St. Louis Rams coach Jeff Fisher taunted the tottering Washington Redskins about the trade that ultimately netted the Rams six players and the Redskins Robert Griffin III, sending those same six players to midfield for the coin toss before Sunday’s

Still reeling from its losses up and down the ballot in November, the Democrat National Committee has appointed a “task force” to rebuild the party. This “audit,” which has become the normal reaction to staggering election losses, includes the normal