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Ex-Yahoo CEO's new app has just 1,000 downloads: report
Mayer's startup studio recently rolled out Shine, an app which is designed to allow users to automatically share photos taken at events they attend.
Yahoo exits China, citing ‘challenging’ environment
Yahoo's withdrawal was largely symbolic, as many of the company’s services were already blocked by China’s digital censorship.
US government ordering Google to provide users' search data: report
The US federal government is secretly ordering Google and other search engines to track and provide data on anyone who searches certain terms through “keyword warrants,” according to a new...
Banfield, Norville tell Post they are 'hurt' and 'gobsmacked' by Couric's cruelty
As Katie Couric shocked America by trashing so many people in her new memoir, Deborah Norville and Ashleigh Banfield reveal they are "gobsmacked," "stunned" and "frankly, hurt" by her cruel...
It's a new Yahoo — again: Apollo Group taps Tinder CEO as whiplashed employees hold their breath
After a revolving door of CEOs, strategies and even names over the past decade, Yahoo Media employees are hoping this time it’s a match. Apollo Global Management, which bought Yahoo...
Private equity firm acquires Verizon’s Yahoo, AOL for $5B
Private equity firm Apollo Global Management has acquired Verizon’s media group for $5 billion, the two companies announced Monday.
The best one-liners from Yahoo Answers’ 15-year run
This advice hub is not long for the live web, but its best posts will live on.
Yahoo Answers will shut down for good next month
Yahoo Answers — perhaps the internet's largest repository of stupid questions — is on its last leg. Yahoo plans to shut down the question-and-answer message board for good in May, ending...
Verizon profits beat forecasts as lockdowns boost internet demand
Verizon Communications topped Wall Street's second-quarter financial estimates on strong demand for its phone and internet services by housebound customers. The telecom giant said Friday that coronavirus-induced stay-at-home orders prompted...
Verizon takes a hit across divisions as pandemic changes behavior
Verizon said it lost 68,000 phone subscribers in the first quarter, due mostly to the fact that it had to close most of its stores due to coronavirus.
Yahoo worker hacked user accounts to steal photos of 'younger women'
A former Yahoo software engineer on Monday pleaded guilty to hacking the accounts of thousands of Yahoo users in search of sexual images and videos of young women and coworkers,...
Yahoo's Mets site is dead before it was ever alive
Do you remember the Yahoo Sports subscription Mets site that was going to be the start of a potential challenge to The Athletic’s paid model? Well, it’s not happening. It...
NFL Network shows slashed, tensions rise after $20M cuts
The NFL Network is being forced to cut $20 million out of its projected budget and, in the process, already has eliminated at least five shows, including one that featured...
Here's what Marissa Mayer's been up to since exiting Yahoo
She is investing in a new “inclusive space for families” that begs them to turn their smartphones off.
Kevin Burkhardt adds one more job in steady broadcasting rise
Fox’s Kevin Burkhardt will be part of the Tampa Bay Rays' TV broadcast team this season, The Post has learned. Burkhardt, Fox’s lead MLB host, will call approximately 20 Rays...
Yahoo is pitching paid baseball content — and starting with Mets
Yahoo Sports is creating a potential challenger to the The Athletic’s subscription model, The Post has learned. While Yahoo will cover teams, its approach will be different than The Athletic,...
ESPN wins battle for rising NBA Twitter star
The NBA is a social media league with all kinds of Twitter drama. So it makes sense that when reporters make career decisions, there is a Twitter factor. NBA sideline...
Verizon takes billions in charges for Oath, buyouts
Verizon Communications is taking a $4.6 billion goodwill impairment charge related to its failed media division Oath. Oath, which is the result of a merger between Yahoo and AOL under...
Yahoo Finance poaches 2 editors from TheStreet.com
Andy Serwer, editor-in-chief of Yahoo Finance, has lured two editors from TheStreet.com to join the Verizon-owned site. Brian Sozzi, who became executive editor of TheStreet late last year, will be...
Yahoo is still reading some of your emails
It’s not unheard of for email service providers to read users’ emails to target them with better-tailored ads that would help the company make more money. Google did it for...