Yahoo app now summarizes stories with beautiful, full-screen images
Yahoo updated its app today to include technology from recently acquired "summary" startup Summly.
Yahoo updated its app today to include technology from recently acquired "summary" startup Summly.
In the early 2000's, then-Google VP of user experience Marissa Mayer used to get mysterious emails from a complete stranger, each containing only a single number: 45, 52, 56.
Marissa Mayer explains her decision to stop people from working from home after keeping quiet for two months.
Get ready for a resurrection: Mayer has brought Yahoo back from the dead, this time with gorgeous apps, cutting-edge devices, and a bright outlook for the future.
When Yahoo talks about mobile, it's not just referring to tablets and smartphones. It's also talking about the smartwatches, visors, and God knows what else you'll be using next year and the year after that.
High-gloss aesthetics, full-page photos -- the result is amazingly fresh and very much in stride with the apps mobile-first companies are releasing right now.
Editor's Pick Late last year, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer told techsters her big game plan for the company: Making Yahoo accessible and relevant to a mobile-first culture. So, did she deliver?
It's too early to declare whether iconic tech company Yahoo is in full turnaround mode, but the company first quarter 2013 earnings certainly show it's headed in the right direction.
Apple already offers Yahoo weather and finance data pre-loaded on the iPhone, but Yahoo and Apple are reportedly in talks to get more cozy.
Yahoo Mail has integrated with cloud storage hotshot Dropbox so email users can send attachments of any size and save attachments to Dropbox.
With $3 billion in forecast revenue, Yahoo might be seeing its first real growth in years.
Yahoo has acquired Summly, a startup that has developed technology to automatically summarize news articles for mobile sites, the company announced this morning.
The data center will use low-cost hydropower from the Niagara Hydroelectric Power Plant as well as an outside-air cooling system to keep machines at optimal temperatures.
Yahoo has purchased social trending startup Jybe today, and along with it a slew of former key employees that previously worked for the company.
Yahoo is rumored to be in talks to buy a large stake in France Telecom-owned video site Dailymotion.
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Rumors that Yahoo might buy Zynga are fading as Bing Gordon talks about the magic of independence.
In six months under Mayer, Yahoo's stock price has jumped from $15 to $23, adding over $17 billion in market value to the still-slumbering purple giant.
Guest Post In the age of Skype, Google Docs, Dropbox and oDesk (where I work) these are pretty stunning pronouncements from one of the industry’s most progressive companies, and from Marissa Mayer, one of Silicon Valley’s most closely watched working Moms.
The latest U.S. census data says that working from home for at least one day a week grew 34 percent, and this comes just a couple of weeks after CEO Marissa Mayer famously killed Yahoo's telecommuting policy.