Sources: PA
Indonesia restricts access to eight websites, including PayPal, Yahoo! and Steam, for failing to register with the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. Online services registered with the ministry are required to comply with disclosure and content removal requests. 2022-07-30
Verizon Communications agrees to buy the core business at Yahoo Inc. for $4.48 billion. Completion of this July 2016 deal had been delayed because of two data breaches Yahoo disclosed last year. 2017-02-21
Yahoo! discloses a data breach that compromised the details of 500 million users. 2016-09-22
Bloomberg News reports Verizon Communications plans a bid for Yahoo Inc.’s Web business, including Yahoo Japan Corp., next week. Google, Time Inc., and private equity funds Bain and TPG are considering bidding for Yahoo’s core business. AT&T Inc., Comcast, and Microsoft Corp. reportedly aren't interested. 2016-04-7
In American football, Twitter wins the bidding contest over Amazon, Verizon, and others, for streaming rights to 10 of 16 National Football League (NFL) regular season "Thursday Night Football Games", ones that will also be telecast by either CBS or NBC. The league streamed one game last year with Yahoo!. Verizon, meanwhile, already owns the mobile rights to all NFL games which are available to subscribers via a mobile app; the 10 NFL games on Twitter will be free. 2016-04-5
Yahoo Inc. says that it has created a committee of independent directors that will explore strategic alternatives, notably the sale of its core internet business. 2016-02-19
Associated Press reports that Yahoo! and Facebook have resolved a patent dispute. 2012-07-6
Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang resigns as chief executive officer. [http:--www.mercurynews.com-breaking-news-ci_19760292 "(San Jose Mercury News)"]2012-01-17
Yahoo! announces plans to axe 600 jobs and phase out services such as Delicious. 2010-12-16