Sunshine is launching a new AI product, Shine. The product offers a photo-sharing app and an events website. Co-founder Marissa Mayer tells…
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Marissa Mayer is back with Sunshine, a consumer apps start-up
Sunshine, co-founded by Marissa Mayer and Enrique Muñoz Torres, launched its first app, Sunshine Contacts. Available on iOS…
Verizon completes Yahoo acquisition, Marissa Mayer resigns
Verizon Communications Inc. today completed its acquisition of the operating business of Yahoo! Inc…
Marissa Mayer will pocket $186 million when Verizon fully acquires Yahoo next month
Marissa Mayer will pocket $186 million when Verizon fully acquires Yahoo next month…
Verizon to buy Yahoo’s core business for $4.48 billion
Verizon said on Tuesday it would buy Yahoo’s core business for $4.48 billion…
Beleaguered Yahoo faces U.S. SEC probe over data breaches
U.S. authorities are investigating whether Yahoo Inc.’s two massive data breaches should…
Yahoo discloses ‘largest hack of all time,’ says hackers stole data from over one billion users
Yahoo said it is forcing all affected users to change their passwords and is invalidating unencrypted security questions…
New Apple Report suggests governments everywhere are demanding customer data
Apple has published the latest edition of its biannual report on Government Information Requests…
Yahoo secretly scanned all customer emails for FBI, NSA, sources say
Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails…
Yahoo confirms data breach of at least 500 million user accounts
A recent investigation by Yahoo! Inc. has confirmed that a copy of certain user account info…
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer likely to pocket over $122.5 million with sale to Verizon
That widely reported $55 million figure grossly understates what Mayer is likely to pocket…
Verizon to acquire beleaguered Yahoo for $4.8 billion
The one thing that kept Yahoo afloat for this long is Jerry Yang’s risky $1 billion bet on Alibaba in 2005…
Verizon to bid $3 billion for Yahoo’s internet business
Verizon Communications Inc. on Monday planned to submit a second-round bid of about $3 billion for Yahoo Inc.’s core internet business…
Yahoo for sale as bidders line up; CEO Marissa Mayer is likely toast
Yahoo is for sale, and bidders are lining up to grab their own, ever-shrinking piece of Internet history…
CEO Marissa Mayer drops the ax, shutters about half of Yahoo’s content verticals
Yahoo was shuttering its tech vertical and moving some of its staff, including former New York Times columnist David Pogue…
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer gets a chance to make one last stand
For Mayer’s part, it is admirable that she fought to stick around and take one more shot…
Yahoo to lay off 15% of staff, close five offices, explore non-strategic asset sales
Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Marissa Mayer is set to reveal cost-cutting plans…
Apple sponsoring Super Bowl Host Committee; Apple to run Super Bowl ad this year?
The Super Bowl Host Committee’s advisory board boasts tech luminaries like Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell and Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer…
Hedge fund manager blasts Marissa Mayer for equipping employees with 22,000 iPhones
Marissa Mayer spends money like Marie Antoinette…
Yahoo investors running out of patience with CEO Marissa Mayer
In December, Yahoo abandoned its original plan to spin off its stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, worth more than $30 billion…
Should Apple buy Yahoo?
It looks like Yahoo is considering selling its core business…
Yahoo board to weigh future of company, Marissa Mayer, source says
The board of Yahoo Inc is weighing a sale of its core Internet business when it meets this week…
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer pregnant with identical twin girls
Since this is a unique time in Yahoo’s transformation, I plan to approach the pregnancy and delivery as I did with my son three years ago…
Apple’s Angela Ahrendts emerges as highest-paid U.S. woman with $83 million
Yahoo! Inc.’s Marissa Mayer was the country’s highest-paid female CEO…
Apple’s Safari took 55% of US mobile and tablet usage share in March
Apple’s Safari browser accounted for over half of US mobile and tablet internet usage…
Yahoo or Microsoft can terminate search deal anytime on or after October 1st
Yahoo and Microsoft’s 10-year search pact could end well before the decade is out…
Microsoft loses exclusivity in Yahoo search deal shake up
Today Microsoft and Yahoo announced that the companies amended their search partnership…
Former Yahoo CEO Levinsohn: Marissa Mayer may have to go
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer may have to leave the tech giant soon…
U.S. FTC report details how Google skewed search results in its own favor
Google Inc. manipulated search results to favor its own services over rivals’, even when they weren’t most relevant for users…
Apple’s default search engine: Is DuckDuckGo next in line?
Apple’s core philsophy and DuckDuckGo’s are stunningly well aligned….
Analyst: Google faces ‘significant’ blow if Apple dumps them from Safari
Google, which has seen its share of the U.S. search market already decline…
Yahoo gains further US search share; Google falls below 75% for first time
January saw Yahoo further increase the gain it made in US search share last month…
What happened when Marissa Mayer tried to be Steve Jobs
The Steve Jobs syndrome…
Why Apple, Fox News, and Microsoft are suddenly working together
It’s not every day you see Microsoft and Apple or Fox News and NPR going to bat…
Apple supports Microsoft in U.S. data-privacy dispute
Some of the world’s largest technology companies, including Apple Inc…
Microsoft, Yahoo vie to become Apple Safari’s default search option
Google Maps and YouTube are no longer bundled as default apps…
Firefox dumps Google for default U.S. search, switches to Yahoo/Bing
In a major departure for both Mozilla and Yahoo, Firefox’s default search engine…
Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer was right to ban working from home, right?
Perhaps Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer had a point about working from home…
Yahoo buys Flurry for over $200 million
The deal marks one of the largest acquisitions by Chief Executive Marissa Mayer…
Yahoo still in sales rut as CEO Marissa Mayer unable to rev company engines
Yahoo! on Tuesday said it will sell about one-third fewer Alibaba shares than expected…
Cook, Zuckerberg, Mayer, other tech CEOs ask U.S. Senate to restrict U.S. spying
A group of prominent technology company CEOs, including the most prominent, Apple CEO Tim Cook…
Tim Cook likely to be asked to testify at NSA case in Germany
German lawmakers may call the heads of the largest U.S. technology companies…
