Photographers have expressed their dissatisfaction with Yahoo’s move to sell supposedly free photos on Flickr. Several photographers who called The Wall Street Journal explained that some of the photos Yahoo was selling were not meant for sale and had been uploaded on the image website to be used for free. ...
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Yahoo has acquired the popular photo startup, Cooliris, as the tech giant continues to focus on improving mobile experience. Cooliris, founded back in 2006 has built its own app that enables users to to browse photos from popular social networks like Facebook, and Flickr, and also from the cloud with ...
Alex Stamos, Yahoo’s Chief Information security officer announced yesterday that Yahoo Mail users will soon have the option to send encrypted emails using a browser plugin. The encryption would see users send emails with content that has been scrambled and is unreadable to anyone except the sender and the receiver. ...
In the past week, the Heartbleed internet bug revealed just how unsafe we really are online. It just goes to show that most of the security features installed are managed by a few people, and they are mostly volunteers. Well, OpenSSL, a program that secures online communication had a small ...
Yahoo just failed in their attempt to buy Dailymotion, bringing into focus the fact that they are looking to give YouTube some true competition. Well, new reports indicate that they are looking to create their own video portal, and they plan to woo some YouTube stars over to their side ...
Matthew Campbell, from Arkansas, and Michael Hurley, from Oregon have sued Facebook over allegations that Facebook was intercepting private user messages for selling to advertising companies. These are not the messages posted on a user’s wall; rather, they are inbox messages that are meant to be private. Facebook stated earlier ...
Google now raises concerns over persistent demands by governments, and law enforces across the world to remove content. THIS IS IN ADDITION TO THE REQUESTS IT GETS TO HAND OVER USER DATA. Considering the facts, Google got 3,846 government requests to remove 24,737 pieces of content. This is an increase ...
Yahoo Mail’s 16th Birthday celebration was fielded by giving a brand new view to Yahoo Mail. Various new features were integrated into the mail system in a move that is seen as a way to curb the growing popularity of Gmail, Yahoo’s major competitor. If you have been a loyal ...
The buildup is finally over as Yahoo unveils its new logo. The look comes off as cleaner and slender, with a sans-serif font specially made by Yahoo. The logo retains its purple color, though relatively darker. It also has the same uppercase and lowercase letter mixtures. And as usual, the ...
Yahoo has been on a massive shopping spree, and its latest target was the social browser maker Rockmelt. I suppose the two bonded over the fact that they both want to help their users find the best content on the net. With the move said to have set yahoo back ...