Sources: PA
Yahoo! reports that all three billion of its accounts were hacked in the August 2013 data theft. 2017-10-3
Yahoo! shareholders officially approve its $4.48 billion sale to Verizon Wireless. Yahoo! stock was up 8.5 percent shortly thereafter. 2017-06-8
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! announces that ID information about more than 1 billion accounts may have been hacked in August 2013. This is separate from the company's earlier disclosure of a data breach of 500,000 accounts in 2014. 2016-12-14
Yahoo! discloses a data breach that compromised the details of 500 million users. 2016-09-22
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
Wang Xiaoning, a Chinese dissident who was detained in 2002 with information provided by Yahoo!, is released. 2012-08-31
Associated Press reports that Yahoo! and Facebook have resolved a patent dispute. 2012-07-6
Yahoo! announces plans to axe 600 jobs and phase out services such as Delicious. 2010-12-16