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Verizon reportedly reduces its Yahoo offer by $250 million

Verizon's $4.83 billion Yahoo acquisition could end up costing closer to $4.6 billion, Bloomberg reports. The discount comes after two

Yahoo Mail gets a couple updates, including caller ID and photo syncing

Well, you can't say Yahoo Mail isn't trying. As of Monday, the Yahoo Mail app will behave as a file-sharing service between your mobile device and desktop, and also ID your incoming calls. The post Yahoo Mail gets a couple updates, including caller ID and photo syncing appeared first on Digital Trends.

SEC probes Yahoo’s response to billion-user hack

The SEC has this thing about companies keeping secrets, especially if those secrets could hurt investors. Yahoo, meanwhile, suffered two

Yahoo Under SEC Investigation for Not Disclosing Massive Data Breach Sooner

Yahoo is under investigation from the Securities and Exchange Commission over its failure to disclose its massive data breaches sooner,

Marissa Meyer to resign from Yahoo’s board of directors

Marissa Mayer has been virtually synonymous with Yahoo ever since she took the helm, but things are about to get

The year of Yahoo’s undoing

It's not often that we're able to quantify the crappiness of a particular year, but Yahoo's 2016 was so tragic

The Engadget Podcast Ep 20: I Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down

It's the last episode of the year and host Terrence O'Brien is closing things out with managing editor Dana Wollman

The biggest losers of 2016

Last week we broke down the biggest winners of 2016. This week, we're taking a look at the biggest losers.Yahoo

The Engadget Podcast Ep 18: We Both Go Down Together

Managing Editor Dana Wollman and Senior Editor Devindra Hardawar join host Terrence O'Brien to talk about the biggest tech stories

Yahoo confirms new security breach affecting over one billion accounts

Yahoo just revealed that in August 2013, someone stole data linked to more than one billion accounts. Back in September,

Yahoo Discloses Second Major Hack, More Than 1 Billion Accounts Compromised

Yahoo today announced that it believes more than one billion Yahoo user accounts were compromised in a hack by an

Nearly half of Flickr’s photo uploads come from smartphones

It's no secret that Flickr is popular with phone-toting photographers, but it's now reaching a tipping point. The Yahoo-owned

Yahoo Answers Now is a standalone app for iOS

Yahoo Answers has been the butt of many jokes for a long time now. But if you enjoy browsing through

New Filing Confirms Yahoo Was Aware of Large-Scale Email Hack in 2014

In September, Yahoo confirmed that at least 500 million of its users' accounts had been compromised during an attack in

Yahoo admits some staff knew of 2014 hack

As Yahoo attempts to piece together how a hacker accessed 500 million user accounts back in 2014, the company has

Yahoo brings all its bots together in one app

Yahoo has quietly introduced a new app called Yahoo Bots, as recently spotted by VentureBeat. The application, available for iOS

Search for classic GIFs in the Internet Archive’s new collection

To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the Internet Archive has created a special treat for its visitors: an utterly enormous number

Yahoo’s latest transparency report reads like tonedeaf fluff

Following all the trouble it has had lately, Yahoo has released its annual transparency report. Globally, the firm had 20,511

Artificial intelligence won’t save the internet from porn

"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand

Yahoo revived email forwarding so you can finally leave

After Yahoo disabled automatic mail forwarding earlier this week, the internet company has flipped the feature back on for all

Lawmakers demand answers from White House over Yahoo emails

Four dozen members of the US House of Representatives, acting as a bipartisan bloc, have requested that the Obama Administration

Yahoo email breach could put Verizon deal in jeopardy

After Verizon announced a $4.83 billion deal to acquire former internet giant Yahoo, troubles the former company faced quickly came

Yahoo Mail Users Trying to Leave Service Faced With ‘Temporarily Disabled’ Email Forwarding

In the midst of stories surrounding the hacking of at least 500 million Yahoo user accounts and the secretive scanning

Yahoo Mail disabled forwarding, good luck switching now

The Yahoo email hack and government surveillance claims aren't going to go away no matter how much CEO Marissa Mayer

Reuters: Yahoo email scanning done with a Linux kernel module

In the ever evolving saga of Yahoo's email servers and who could peek into them, the latest nugget comes from

Silicon Valley bro sues Yahoo for reverse discrimination

This week hasn't been particularly kind to beleaguered internet company Yahoo. CEO Marissa Mayer, former chief marketing officer Kathy Savitt

It’s not easy being Yahoo

Remember when Yahoo was great? Yeah, I'm having a hard time, too. Especially in light of the past few weeks,

Verizon reportedly looking for a $1 billion discount on Yahoo

Back in July, Verizon (the parent company of Engadget) agreed to acquire (most of) Yahoo for $4.83 billion, and normally,

Yahoo Adapted Email-Scanning Spam Filter to Satisfy ‘Secret Court Order’ Related to Terrorist Hunt

Following a report yesterday that cited three former Yahoo employees who claimed the company built a program to scan every

NYT: Yahoo reworked its malware scanner for email surveillance

Following a Reuters report that in 2015 Yahoo scanned customer emails for US surveillance, the New York Times has followed

Yahoo Secretly Scanned Millions of Customer Emails for U.S. Authorities

Yahoo secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information at the

Yahoo reportedly gave US government access to all users’ emails

According to Reuters, Yahoo provided US intelligence officials access to all of its customers incoming emails last year. The publication's