Yahoo is set to make a new acquisition and this time it is Tumblr. It the rumors are true, Yahoo is in talks to buy popular blogging platform Tumblr. AllThingsD reported that Yahoo might invest or completely acquire Tumblr to attract young audience to Yahoo's properties. Yahoo is in talk with Tumblr executives but it doesn't mean that they will finalize the deal in favor. Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer has been m ...

Yahoo is planning to buy controlling stake in popular video sharing website Dailymotion. If the rumors are true, this will be the first major acquisition of Yahoo since she joined as CEO. At this time, Yahoo is only planning to buy 75 percent stake of DailyMotion. Company can also consider to buy the remainder portion of the website in future. At this time, dailymotion has valuation of $300 million. Dailymo ...

Yahoo has now followed the path of Google and is shutting down few under-performing products. Yahoo has now announced to shout down BlackBerry app, Avatars, App Search, Sports IQ and its Message Boards website on April 1st. It will also end the support to Yahoo Updates API on April 16th. Although, message board website will no longer available, individual message boards of website will continue to work. Bla ...

Yahoo has announced that is teaming up with Google to display contextual ads on Yahoo websites. Now you will see Google Ads and AdMob ads on Yahoo website around the word. Now, Yahoo is another partner of Google along like other thousands of Google partners. Google owns the biggest advertising service Google Adsense which serves billions ad impressions per month. This deal really makes sense. Yahoo has many ...

On Tuesday, Yahoo has confirmed that it bought Snip.in, popular scrapbook website. Snip.it is a startup that allows users to create scrapbooks with articles, videos, pictures and other online content. It was launched in late 2011. This deal was in works for few weeks but confirmed yesterday. Yahoo paid $10 million for this deal. Snip.it has 10 employees from which 9 will join Yahoo. "For the past year and a ...

Few days back, a security researcher has found DOM based Cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability i Yahoo that can be used to hijack users yahoo mail accounts. Within few hours, company started working on the fix and then claimed to fix the security hole. But researchers have found that vulnerability still exists and the patch by the company was not effective. Security researcher Shahin Ramezany has managed ...

Finally, Yahoo has enabled Yahoo mail users to switch over a secure HTTPS connection. This is not enabled by default, so users need to enable it manually. Gmail and Hotmail services are already offering HTTPS secure connection by default to protect users email account. Yahoo already offers SSL protection to Android, iOS and Windows 8 app users. Now, desktop users also got the feature. Although the feature i ...