The Verge

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The Blade A3Y for Yahoo Mobile. ? While the ascendant Yahoo of the 1990s now only lives in our memories, its name and branding continue to shamble on zombie-like to its owner Verizon’s other products — this time, the ZTE Blade A3Y , an exclusive phone for Yahoo Mobile bearing its namesake company’s familiar shade of purple.

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Computer Weekly

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Yahoo confirms details of a historic data breach, dating back to 2013, affecting one billion users

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Gizmodo

MAY 3, 2021

Verizon’s officially selling off its media assets to the private equity firm Apollo Global for $5 billion, the company announced on Monday. Alongside that bundle of cash, Verizon will also be keeping a 10% stake in the company, which will simply be renamed—no joke—Yahoo. Read more.

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IT Toolbox

JULY 29, 2016

Yahoo Acquired by Verizon. Verizon has purchased Yahoo for $4.83 “The acquisition of Yahoo will put Verizon in a highly competitive position as a top global mobile media company, and billion in cash.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company is “rapidly infusing” AI across its business. The company’s shares are up nearly 4% in after-hours trading after reporting the results for the three months ended Sept. AI impact: For now, Azure AI services are the primary area where the company is seeing revenue from AI.

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Network World

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Yahoo has reportedly searched through all of its users' incoming emails with a secret software program that's designed to ferret out information for U.S. Yahoo reportedly created the program to comply with a U.S. Yahoo is a law-abiding company and complies with the laws of the United States," the company said in a statement.

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GeekWire

MAY 27, 2020

Microsoft’s former top artificial intelligence executive, Harry Shum, has signed on as chairman of the board of News Break , the tech startup founded and led by former Yahoo engineering executive Jeff Zheng, and best known for its popular local news apps. The privately held company, based in Mountain View, Calif.,

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The Verge

JUNE 28, 2021

Facebook has joined the ranks of companies valued over a trillion dollars as of today’s market close. The company’s market cap is sitting at $1.008 trillion according to Yahoo Finance , putting it over the mark for the first time in its history. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Existing Spanning Tree Protocol-based network wasn''t cutting it for the company''s Hadoop needs Read More. Big Data Networking Yahoo'

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Network World

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Reports of a secret Yahoo program to search through customers' incoming emails has spurred other tech companies to deny ever receiving a similar request from the U.S. order, involves Yahoo searching through hundreds of millions of user accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI. government.

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Network World

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Yahoo has called a Reuters article about a secret email scanning program "misleading," and said no such system exists. On Tuesday, the Reuters article claimed that Yahoo had created the custom software program after receiving a classified U.S. However, on Wednesday Yahoo disputed the report. “We government order.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Yahoo said investigators into the late 2014 theft of information of at least 500 million user accounts are looking into the possibility that some people within the company knew about the security incident at the time. Yahoo said it would “analyze and investigate the hacker’s claim.” Securities and Exchange Commission.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The European Commission gave unconditional approval to Microsoft’s pending acquisition of speech technology company Nuance Communications for $19.7 The largest acquisition the company didn’t complete was its unsolicited $50 billion hostile takeover bid for Yahoo in 2008. Microsoft Image. The purchase price of $19.6

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Network World

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Verizon may be getting cold feet with its acquisition of Yahoo. billion deal for the Internet company. Recent news about Yahoo's massive data breach and its alleged secret email scanning program has diminished the company's value in the eyes of Verizon, according to a Thursday report by the New York Post.

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GeekWire

APRIL 5, 2023

(Payscale Photos) — Compensation data company Payscale hired two new executives: Nolan Farris as president and chief operating officer, and Raj Cherukuri as chief technology officer. He also worked at Yahoo as a senior director of sales, and at Accenture. He also worked at Yahoo as a senior director of sales, and at Accenture.

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Computer Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2017

Yahoo has filed documents which indicate that if the Verizon deal goes ahead, the remainder of the company will become an investment company called Altaba

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GeekWire

AUGUST 27, 2020

James Heckman, CEO and founder of the Seattle-based media company that publishes Sports Illustrated, announced his resignation Wednesday. Heckman will “continue his entrepreneurial role with the company, focusing on key strategic and business development initiatives,” according to a SEC filing. “The

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Data Center Knowledge

MAY 5, 2014

data storage companies have trust issues, especially Microsoft OneDrive, which 32 percent of IT professionals distrust, according to a recent poll. The poll, the results of which were released recently, also indicated that 22 percent distrust Apple, while 18 percent distrust Yahoo for data.

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Network World

OCTOBER 5, 2016

What Yahoo was looking for with its alleged email scanning program may have been signs of code used by a foreign terrorist group. Department of Justice, and not the National Security Agency, that had obtained a court order forcing Yahoo to comply. But the article said it was the U.S.

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GeekWire

APRIL 4, 2024

LinkedIn Photo) — Andrew Bennett , the former chief marketing officer at Smartsheet , is now chief marketing officer at Conga , a Denver-area startup that helps companies manage revenue. She spent nearly a year at video management company Panopto and led marketing at SEO firm Moz for more than three years. Andrew Bennett.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2021

Microsoft can add ending the day as a $2 trillion company to the list of things it’s accomplished today, alongside announcing Windows 11. Microsoft also saw success with with its Surface devices, Xbox content, and cloud services — the company says its Intelligent Cloud segment brought in $48 billion alone in its 2020 fiscal year.

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Computer Weekly

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Yahoo is likely to have been a victim of its own encryption and security is still poor despite the huge breach that hit the company in 2014, according to security firm Venafi

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

They are regarded as the first to deliver business-ready Predictive Applications & Tools to companies that need fast, deep insight to critical business questions on Big Data. Executives grounded in science & engineering, they have held senior positions at Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Cloudera, Hortonworks, and VMware.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Keith Alexander is joining Amazon’s board of directors, the company revealed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing today. Alexander has also been added to the company board’s official site.) Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Verizon Communications will pay US$350 million less for Yahoo after two major data breaches reported by the struggling internet pioneer. billion for Yahoo's operating business, and the two companies will share any potential legal and regulatory liabilities arising from two major data breaches announced in late 2016.

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Network World

OCTOBER 6, 2016

European Union privacy watchdogs are concerned by reports that Yahoo has been secretly scanning its users' email at the request of U.S. Reuters reported on Tuesday that Yahoo had built a system for U.S. Reuters reported on Tuesday that Yahoo had built a system for U.S. intelligence services. "It

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Network World

JANUARY 10, 2017

Marissa Mayer is getting ready to say goodbye to Yahoo's board, but not necessarily to the Yahoo brand. The company said in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing Monday that it will shed almost everything that makes it Yahoo, including its name, when its deal with Verizon closes.

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GeekWire

MARCH 12, 2021

Company background: Ad Lightning spun out of Seattle-based startup studio Pioneer Square Labs in 2017. The company’s revenue growth slowed last year but has rebounded in recent months, with record business expected for Q1. Companies will need to adhere to these new standards.

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GeekWire

MARCH 6, 2024

Tech commentator, podcast host, veteran journalist, and entrepreneur Kara Swisher discusses her new book, “Burn Book: A Tech Love Story,” March 5, 2024, at Town Hall in Seattle with Alex Stamos, former Facebook and Yahoo chief security officer. One, the tech companies got so big during COVID, got so enormous and so powerful.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

(GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) The official launch of Microsoft 365 Copilot, the company’s new artificial intelligence service for large businesses, is still more than a week away, on Nov. billion, up 10% year-over-year, as reported by Yahoo Finance. per share, a 13% increase from a year earlier, on revenue of $54.5

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Network World

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Verizon has signaled that Yahoo's massive data breach may be enough reason to halt its US$4.8 billion deal to buy the internet company. This could give the company room to back out or get a large discount. This could give the company room to back out or get a large discount.

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GeekWire

JUNE 8, 2020

Maven , the Seattle-based media company that publishes Sports Illustrated, among other magazines, is hearing from employees upset about a pro-police website that is part of the company’s portfolio. PPP loan despite outcry against public companies. It purchased finance media company TheStreet in 2019. DefenseMaven.io

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Vox

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Instead of innovating and putting out a superior product that users prefer, as Google insists it does, the government says the company is resting on its laurels and paying off manufacturers, carriers, and browser developers to make Google the default search engine across countless devices and operating systems. Google paid $26.3

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2023

(GeekWire File Photo) Investors will be looking for early signs of traction from Microsoft’s artificial intelligence investments Tuesday afternoon when the company reports results for its fiscal fourth quarter. billion, as reported by Yahoo Finance , up 7% from the same quarter a year ago. billion to $55.85 billion to $55.85

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ComputerWorld IT Management

APRIL 4, 2017

After its acquisition of Yahoo wraps up, Verizon plans to place AOL and Yahoo under the umbrella of a new company, called Oath. AOL, which owns the Huffington Post, Engadget and TechCrunch, will pool all of the properties with Yahoo under the Oath umbrella, according to Armstrong, in an interview with CNBC. TakeTheOath.

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GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2021

SEO software startup Moz has been acquired by email marketing company iContact , a subsidiary of J2 Global. The company, originally known as SEOMoz, grew into one of Seattle’s top startups, though its journey was not always smooth. 10 on the GeekWire 200 , our list of top privately held tech companies in the Pacific Northwest.

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The Verge

MARCH 26, 2021

“We were thinking, this is a concept project and is this going to be relevant when vaccinations and everything has been rolled out,” says Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan in an interview with Yahoo Finance. “We We are going to proceed in making it a reality and ship the smart mask.”. Image: Razer. Razer’s Project Hazel mask.

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