Verizon To Sell Yahoo & AOL For $5 Billion After Buying Each For ~$5 Billion
In 2015 Verizon bought AOL for about $4.4 billion while AOL was under Tim Armstrong’s leadership. Then in 2016, Verizon bought Yahoo for about $4.83 billion while Yahoo was under Marissa Mayer’s leadership. Now, in 2021, Verizon is selling 90% of bot…
Marissa Mayer To Step Down From Yahoo, While Yahoo To Be Renamed To Altaba
A day or so ago ago, via a SEC filing, we learned two things about Yahoo. First, Marissa Mayer will be stepping down and second, the company will be renamed to Altaba.
Marissa left Google, at her pretty high position there…
Yahoo 2016 Year in Review: ‘2016 Election’ top search term & ‘Election Day’ No. 1 news story
Yahoo says “Donald Trump” ranked as its second most popular search of the year, while “Hillary Clinton” barely made the top 10.
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Verizon To Acquire Yahoo For $4.83 Billion – End Of An Era
This comes as no surprise, as you know, Yahoo was looking to sell and over the weekend…
Yahoo Taking Bids To Sell All Or Parts Of Company
Wall Street Journal reports Yahoo has set a deadline for when all bids need to be submitted to Yahoo for selling all or parts of the company. The deadline is April 11th…
Yahoo Redesigns Homepage & App To Deliver Consistent Experience With More Relevant News
With its now nearly infinite news stream, Yahoo users no longer need to open news articles in multiple browser tabs.
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Yahoo News Digest App Hits Android & Goes International
Earlier this year Yahoo continued its mobile push with the release of their mobile news app “Yahoo News Digest” for iOS. The main powering agent of Yahoo News Digest was the technology from former acquisition, Summly. Today Yahoo News Digest is expanding out to more devices in more…
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Want News About New York In Yahoo News? Too Bad.
If you try to search Yahoo News for [new york], you will be out of luck. Yahoo News is returning an error that reads “we did not find results for: new york.” Here is a screen shot: Other states do work, such as Florida or California, but not New York. Why? We are not sure, […]
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Can Yahoo Make A Come Back Into Search?
Over the weekend, news broke that Yahoo’s CEO, Marissa Mayer, has started initiatives to get Yahoo back into building its own search technology.
As you may remember…
Yahoo’s News Digest App Is “Summly 2.0″
In addition to a range of other announcements at CES yesterday, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer introduced a new news app, Yahoo News Digest. It was built under the supervision of Summly founder Nick D’Aloisio. Summly was acquired by Yahoo in March of 2013 for an estimated $30 million. Summly itself was…
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Yahoo, Under Mayer, Accused Of Slowing Microsoft Partnership Rollout
Reuters reports that U.S. District Judge Robert Patterson Jr said Yahoo breach of the agreement “established irreparable harm to Microsoft” and thus has to continue the rollout in Taiwan and Hong Kong…
Yahoo’s Logo Is Changing, As The Company Changes
Yahoo announced they are changing their logo on September 4th at 9pm PT or midnight of September 5th. The change is a result of Marissa Mayer taking over the company and making huge changes throughout the organization, culture and via acquisitions…
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Yahoo Spends $1.1 Billion To Be Cool (Buy Tumblr)
I’m sure you heard the news by now, Yahoo has acquired Tumblr for a cool $1.1 billion in cash.
Seriously…