Yahoo is set to release inactive mail accounts this August. Any account that’s been inactive for at least a year and hasn’t been accessed by July 15th will be released back into the wild, the company announced today. [ AP ] Read more…
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Yahoo is set to release inactive mail accounts this August.
Wow. Nothing is sacred. The Washington Post has discovered that the NSA and FBI have teamed up to tap into the servers of nine US tech companies—Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple, you name it—and have extracted e-mails, photographs, audio, video, documents and connection logs. They basically have free reign to take whatever they want. And they’ve been doing it since 2007. Read more…
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The NSA Mines an Insane Amount of Data From Every Tech Service You Use
Yahoo’s been on a bit of a warpath lately, shuttering old services and streamlining existing ones — the firm classic email interface , slated to discontinue tomorrow, June 3rd, is the latest to get the axe. We knew this was coming , of course, but its more than a mere visual update: users who choose to upgrade to the new interface will have to agree to Yahoo’s updated Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Yahoo’s own help documentation points out why this matters, explaining that the new ToS includes “the acceptance of automated content scanning and analyzing of your communications content, which Yahoo users to deliver product features, relevant advertising and abuse protection.” Nothing new for Gmail users, but a change worth consideration. The company says users can opt out of contextual advertising or otherwise dodge it with a desktop email client, but will still need to accept the new ToS to continue using Yahoo Mail. Mostly par for the course, but if you’re concerned about privacy, you can read up on the changes for yourself at the attached source link. Filed under: Internet Comments Via: TechCrunch Source: Yahoo
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PSA: Yahoo Mail Classic shuts down June 3rd
Britain’s largest ISP, British Telecom, has ragequit Yahoo! after learning that the internet giant had bought beloved microblogging site Tumblr. Just kidding! It’s actually sick of its customers’ Yahoo-provided email accounts getting hacked. [Telegraph]
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That cat’s out of the bag a day early , it seems. Yahoo’s board has approved a $1.1 billion cash deal to purchase the blogging site Tumblr, according to The Wall Street Journal . We were expecting Yahoo to announce the acquisition during tomorrow’s NYC media event — CEO Marissa Mayer may instead use the last-minute gathering to detail the company’s plans for integrating the popular platform. It’s unclear how Yahoo intends to utilize its latest procurement, but with a 10-figure price tag now public, we can only imagine that Tumblr will be put to good use. We’ll be covering tomorrow afternoon’s event live, so stay tuned for more details from New York City. Filed under: Internet Comments Source: Wall Street Journal (Twitter)
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Yahoo to acquire Tumblr in $1.1 billion cash deal
That cat’s out of the bag a day early , it seems. Yahoo’s board has approved a $1.1 billion cash deal to purchase the blogging site Tumblr, according to The Wall Street Journal . We were expecting Yahoo to announce the acquisition during tomorrow’s NYC media event — CEO Marissa Mayer may instead use the last-minute gathering to detail the company’s plans for integrating the popular platform. It’s unclear how Yahoo intends to utilize its latest procurement, but with a 10-figure price tag now public, we can only imagine that Tumblr will be put to good use. We’ll be covering tomorrow afternoon’s event live, so stay tuned for more details from New York City. Filed under: Internet Comments Source: Wall Street Journal (Twitter)
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Yahoo to acquire Tumblr in $1.1 billion cash deal, says the WSJ
hypnosec writes with report of the possible theft of up to 22 million user IDs revealed by Yahoo! Japan. That scale is massive, but, he writes, “According to Yahoo, the information that was stolen didn’t have passwords or any other information that would allow unauthorized users to carry out user identity verification.” A story at the Japan Times adds a bit more detail. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Yahoo! Japan May Have Had 22 Million User IDs Stolen
Yahoo has a problem: it has no idea what it’s doing, or how it’s going to do it ( outside of teenage dream hires ). Some people who claim intimate knowledge say the company is going to do it by throwing a serious Hail Mary: buying Tumblr for $1,000,000,000. That’s one billion. Read more…
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Rumor Alert: Yahoo Is Buying Tumblr for a Billion?
Yahoo may have failed in its bid to acquire Hulu last year, but CEO Marissa Mayer announced it’s snagged rights to show something the streaming site has been known for: Saturday Night Live . The deal with Broadway Video will give Yahoo exclusive online access to archived SNL content from 1975 through 2013 including show clips, “select” musical performances, behind the scenes and dress rehearsal clips. Yahoo will also have non-exclusive access to show current season Saturday Night Live clips in the US and a license to distribute library show clips internationally. Beginning September 1st, those archived clips will be pulled from other internet video platforms (presumably Hulu and Netflix — update, see below) for one year. The press release (included after the break) indicates Broadway and Yahoo will celebrate the partnership at Yahoo!’s Digital Content NewFront event on the 29th. We’ll see if there’s more to learn about Yahoo’s ever-evolving media strategy then. Update : The devil is in the details, and it appears that while Yahoo does have exclusive access to the SNL “clips” archive, that is not the same as full episodes. While that may seem arbitrary to the layman, what it means in effect is that later this year you’ll still be able to stream full episodes of SNL on other online services — just not clips. Filed under: Home Entertainment , HD Comments Source: Yahoo! Yodel , Marissa Mayer (Twitter)
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Yahoo snags exclusive rights to Saturday Night Live’s archives (update: clips only) starting September 1st
Yahoo may have failed in its bid to acquire Hulu last year, but CEO Marissa Mayer announced it’s snagged rights to show something the streaming site has been known for: Saturday Night Live . The deal with Broadway Video will give Yahoo exclusive online access to archived SNL content from 1975 through 2013 including show clips, “select” musical performances, behind the scenes and dress rehearsal clips. Yahoo will also have non-exclusive access to show current season Saturday Night Live clips in the US and a license to distribute library show clips internationally. Beginning September 1st, those archived clips will be pulled from other internet video platforms (presumably Hulu and Netflix — update, see below) for one year. The press release (included after the break) indicates Broadway and Yahoo will celebrate the partnership at Yahoo!’s Digital Content NewFront event on the 29th. We’ll see if there’s more to learn about Yahoo’s ever-evolving media strategy then. Update : The devil is in the details, and it appears that while Yahoo does have exclusive access to the SNL “clips” archive, that is not the same as full episodes. While that may seem arbitrary to the layman, what it means in effect is that later this year you’ll still be able to stream full episodes of SNL on other online services — just not clips. Filed under: Home Entertainment , HD Comments Source: Yahoo! Yodel , Marissa Mayer (Twitter)
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Yahoo snags exclusive rights to Saturday Night Live’s archives starting September 1st (update: clips only)