Oct 08
Yahoo revamped the design of its mail app for the desktop, tablet, and smartphone just in time for Yahoo Mail’s 16th anniversary.
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Oct 03
Serving up advertisements can be tricky business, and depending on how it is achieved, could land companies in hot water. Such was the case with Google earlier this year over issues with email scanning, something that had prompted it to say that emails sent to Gmail addresses had no expectation of privacy. Following a judge’s […]
Oct 03
Yahoo has been hit with a new class-action privacy lawsuit which claims that the company is effectively intercepting and reading emails of users as it scans incoming emails for keywords in order to deliver more targeted ads. Google too was hit with a similar lawsuit recently and just last week it couldn’t convince a judge that its keyword scanning in Gmail doesn’t violate wiretap laws. There’s a difference between these two cases though, Google was sued by Gmail users and non-users, where Yahoo hasn’t been sued by those who use its service, but by those who claim they’re filing the suit on behalf of other Americans that have sent email to Yahoo addresses. The claim is that since these users don’t use Yahoo’s email service, they didn’t agree to keyword scanning.
Google defended its case by claiming that scanning emails to better serve targeted ads is a standard element of its business model. It also said that if someone sends an email to a Gmail user, they implicitly understand that the email is going to be scanned and that the sender is voluntarily giving their information to a third party, which negates the right to absolute privacy. Yahoo may go for a similar defense, given the fact that the argument of both cases is essentially the same. However, if things don’t go too well for Yahoo in the courtroom, it will have to stop scanning emails and also pay damages under U.S. and California law, at least that’s what the plaintiffs are pushing for.
Yahoo Sued For Keyword Scanning In Emails original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Oct 03
Earlier this week, Yahoo was accused of using change in its sofa cushions as compensation for reports of security exploits, but now the whole ordeal has generated enough buzz to bring about change for the internet pioneer. As it turns out, these small prizes (along with rewards such as t-shirts) were paid for out of pocket by Ramses Martinez, the director of Yahoo’s security team, who took a moment today to explain the company’s new — and far more lucrative — bounty program. Moving forward, Yahoo will reward security researchers with payments that range between $150 and $15,000 for issues that it deems “new, unique and / or high-risk.”
The company is still in the early stages of hammering out a new policy, but promises that payments will be determined “by a clear system based on a set of defined elements that capture the severity of the issue.” Yes, these amounts still pale in comparison to the massive sums that Microsoft recently offered, but researchers now have reasonable incentive to inform Yahoo of the exploits, rather than sell them on the black market. According to Martinez, Yahoo’s revised policy will be available by the end of the month, and as a nice gesture, its new reward structure will retroactively apply to all bugs submitted from July 1st onward.
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Sep 24
Later this week, Yahoo users will receive a new functionality in their inbox, with a button being added titled “Not My Email.” As its name suggests, this allows individuals to respond to messages with a simple notification that the intended recipient no longer has the email address, and follows the company’s decision this summer to […]
Sep 19
My Yahoo gets DJ-approved overhaul
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The big Y continues its Mayer-fueled reinvention with a long-awaited update to its My Yahoo personalized homepage builder. The online offering has gotten a new mobile-friendly overhaul, with the promise of more customization and content discovery. Users can add email accounts, calendars, stocks, sports and, naturally, Flickr. There are also a number of pre-fabbed layouts from designers like Oscar de la Renta and bands like Fun. And for good measure, Yahoo’s added a link for porting over your settings from iGoogle. More info can be found in the source link below. Also, after the break, you’ll find a video of DJ Clinton Sparks giving the new My Yahoo the wheels of steel of approval.
Source: My Yahoo
Sep 19
My Yahoo Gets An All New Design
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My Yahoo is a personalized online start page that Yahoo users can configure in a number of ways. They can use it to keep up with stock portfolios, follow sports or the headlines and check the weather. Yahoo claims that the service has over 10 million loyal users. It has finally rolled out an all new design for My Yahoo. It appears though that the company is enhancing its offering while Google is going to sunset its iGoogle personalized page on November 1st. Yahoo says that after this redesign, it is now easier to discover and organize your favorites parts of the internet, “all in one beautiful place.”
Apart from the new design which gives easier access to email accounts, calendars, weather, Flickr and other content from around the internet, there are a number of new themes as well that have been created by designers such as Oscar de la Renta, Rachel Zoe and Jenni Kayne. Artists haven’t been left behind, themes from Chihuly, Polly Apfelbaum, Alec Monopoly and bands like Empire of the Sun, Twenty One Pilots and Fun have all made their very own themes which users can choose from. The company says that this new experience is just another reason that it gives to its users to keep coming back to Yahoo every day.
My Yahoo Gets An All New Design original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Sep 19
Transporters aside, the replicators featured in Star Trek: The Next Generation were one of the most tantalizing pieces of future technology one could imagine—whatever you asked the computer for magically appeared before your eyes. And it looks like Yahoo has created a similar machine for students at a school for the visually impaired in Japan.
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Sep 18
Yahoo Updates iOS App
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Yahoo has just introduced a new iOS app update that will bring with it a bunch of new features, and among them would include animated cinemagraphs. Specially designed for iOS 7, this new updated app from Yahoo will be available for the iPhone and iPod touch, with no immediate mention as to whether the iPad version would be on the receiving end of an updated version. Fernando Delgado, Yahoo’s senior director of product management for mobile and emerging products, claimed that the update app will create “an even better experience for discovering and reading content whether in the moment or saving for later.”
Those based in the US will most probably appreciate the ability to save content to enjoy later, thanks to the “My Saves” option. Assuming you then to be on the road, and do not have the time to dive into an article that interests you, all you need to do is just to tap the button, and you are able to check out that story later at a more convenient time. Not only that, breaking news alerts have also been thrown into the mix, alongside playing nice with animated GIFs. Do you like what Yahoo has done with the latest iOS app?
Yahoo Updates iOS App original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Sep 11
Yahoo, fresh from the unveiling of a spanking new logo recently, has more good news to bring to the masses. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer did make an announcement at TechCrunch Disrupt that the company she is currently helming have seen its monthly active users increase by 20% to 800 million worldwide, and that would also take into consideration the 350 million monthly active users who are logging in from their mobile devices. According to Mayer, these figures have increased ever since she steadied the ship as CEO in July last year, and to sweeten the report, the statistics do not take into consideration Tumblr, the high traffic site which Yahoo forked out $1 billion for earlier this year.
Mayer did send out an optimistic note of caution, however, that it will take Yahoo approximately 3 or more years to arrive at their intended destination. Between now and then, their focus would be on a quartet of pillars – people, products, traffic, and revenue. This strategy was explained in a manner to kick off a chain reaction that will hopefully, attract great people to build great products, and eventually users and revenue will flow in as part of the natural order. Are you happy to see Yahoo growing as a company?
Yahoo Monthly Active Users Achieve 20% Increase, Says Yahoo CEO original content from Ubergizmo. 
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