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US justice department charges Russian officials in Yahoo data breach

Mar 19, 2017

US authorities will charge two Russian intelligence officers, along with two hackers, in a data breach that affected at least 1 billion Yahoo user accounts. The justice department announced the indictment Wedne...

The tech giants Google and Microsoft going to increase their security

Abby Smith

Aug 11, 2014

Innovation

Since the Snowden divulgation, a bit more than a year before, today more people have become knowledgeable about little privacy they have on the Internet. But their government try to have eye on them much more t...

Yahoo going to make it hard for hackers

Abby Smith

Aug 8, 2014

Innovation

Yahoo announced Thursday it would encode its email service by the next year, joining Google and Microsoft in an effort to make an email system for preventing government officials and hackers from it reading the...

German publishers have called off rebel against Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft

Christian Bloss

Jun 22, 2014

Innovation

Several largest German-based newspaper and magazine publishers have issued legal actions to be taken against Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. News publishers are looking ahead for an order that will make these tec...

Yahoo purchases mobile app Blink

Platonium

May 14, 2014

Innovation

Sunnyvale-Yahoo (YHOO : NASDAQ) and its CEO Marissa Meyer have purchased another startup app, Blink, for an undisclosed amount. The deal represents its 38th acquisition under Meyer and first in its competition ...

Google had a rise where Yahoo reflected a decline in government request for users’ data

Abby Smith

Mar 30, 2014

Innovation

Google said that the rise in requests for the users' data across the world has increased. Saying it is almost 120 times more than it was last year, the company stated, majority of the request is from the U.S. g...

Yahoo opts out of sign in with Facebook and Google feature

Abby Smith

Mar 5, 2014

Innovation

Earlier in 2010-2011, Carol Bartz, former CEO of Yahoo allowed users to sign in or register with credentials at Facebook and Google, but it seems to be rolling back under the watch of current CEO, Yahoo and for...

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