Yahoo news and trends

Yahoo Launches BMW In-Car Entertainment Project With Xperi
Connected Economy // October 30, 2023

Yahoo is teaming with Xperi to bring in-car video content to BWM drivers. The partnership between the tech company and the automotive entertainment platform, announced Monday (Oct. 30), will bring video content from Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, and In the Know to Xperi’s TiVo-powered DTS AutoStage video service.  “From taking a...

Yahoo Mail Adds Shopping Feature and Other New AI Tools
artificial intelligence // August 28, 2023

Yahoo Mail’s artificial intelligence (AI) beta experience now includes a shopping feature and other new AI tools. These AI enhancements are part of Yahoo’s ongoing efforts to save users time and money, the company said in a Monday (Aug. 28) press release. The Shopping Saver tool is a standout...

Yahoo Plans to Become Public Company Again
Business // July 04, 2023

Yahoo’s days as a private company could be coming to an end. The tech company’s CEO told the Financial Times Monday (July 4) that he hopes to take Yahoo public and return it to its former glory. Yahoo is “ready financially, the company has a...

Yahoo Bets on Wagr to Boost Its Gaming Offerings
Acquisitions // April 25, 2023

Yahoo has acquired peer-to-peer sports betting app Wagr to expand its sports fantasy platform. The deal, announced Tuesday (April 25), makes Nashville-based Wagr — the first social sports betting operator to receive a license in the U.S. — a fully-integrated part of Yahoo Sports. Terms...

Interviews & Exclusives
DuckDuckGo Takes On Google Search

September 14, 2018
Think of online privacy as a race. With consumers increasingly focused on how their data and web personas are used by eCommerce and other digital organizations, regulators and lawmakers are moving to get ahead of that political and cultural wave. Payments, commerce and tech companies, meanwhile, are trying to stay a step ahead of regulators […]

Yahoo Takeover A Done Deal; Marissa Mayer Bows Out

June 13, 2017
And then, just like that, it was over. As has been widely anticipated and widely reported, Yahoo’s been consumed by Verizon, which is now combining with the AOL properties under...

Three Years After The Target Breach

December 21, 2016
There was a time when data breaches were not a daily part of consumers’ day-to-day lives. Sure, credit cards got stolen or skimmed from time to time — but such...

Yahoo Fizzles With History’s Biggest Data Breach

September 23, 2016
As September is gearing up to go into its last week, the waning warm days of the summer season certainly went out with a bang — care of the largest data...

Quick Reads
Yahoo to Add Personalization Features With Artifact Acquisition

April 02, 2024
Yahoo will add artificial intelligence (AI)-powered personalization features across its platform, including Yahoo News, following its acquisition of Artifact. This acquisition closed Friday (March 29), Yahoo said in a Tuesday (April 2) press release. “Yahoo was one of the first to combine human and algorithmic curation of news,” Kat Downs Mulder, senior vice president and general manager of Yahoo News, […]

Yahoo Launches BMW In-Car Entertainment Project With Xperi

October 30, 2023
Yahoo is teaming with Xperi to bring in-car video content to BWM drivers. The partnership between the tech company and the automotive entertainment platform, announced Monday (Oct. 30), will bring video content from Yahoo Finance, Yahoo...

Yahoo Mail Adds Shopping Feature and Other New AI Tools

August 28, 2023
Yahoo Mail’s artificial intelligence (AI) beta experience now includes a shopping feature and other new AI tools. These AI enhancements are part of Yahoo’s ongoing efforts to save users time and money, the...

Yahoo Plans to Become Public Company Again

July 04, 2023
Yahoo’s days as a private company could be coming to an end. The tech company’s CEO told the Financial Times Monday (July 4) that he hopes to take Yahoo public...