AOL’s owner has reportedly found a buyer for the one-time internet service titan. Yahoo, backed by private equity firm Apollo Global Management, is in advanced discussions to sell AOL to Italian technology company Bending Spoons for roughly $1.4 billion, Reuters reported Thursday (Oct. 2), citing...
Google has removed the head of Gemini as its AI chatbot continues to lag behind ChatGPT. According to Semafor, Sissie Hsiao has stepped down to be replaced by Josh Woodward, the head of Google Labs who oversaw the launch of NotebookLM, the artificial intelligence (AI)...
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...
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...
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 […]
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...
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...
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...
October 29, 2025
Bending Spoons, an Italian technology company, has agreed to acquire AOL from Yahoo. The acquisition, announced Wednesday (Oct. 29), follows weeks of reports that AOL, a one-time web titan, was up for sale. “AOL is an iconic, beloved business that’s in good health, has stood the test of time, and we believe has unexpressed potential,” Bending Spoons CEO and […]
October 02, 2025
AOL’s owner has reportedly found a buyer for the one-time internet service titan. Yahoo, backed by private equity firm Apollo Global Management, is in advanced discussions to sell AOL to...
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....
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...