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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission fines Altaba 35 million for failing to disclose its 2014 data breach in a timely manner.
2018-04-24

Yahoo! shareholders officially approve its $4.48 billion sale to Verizon Wireless. Yahoo! stock was up 8.5 percent shortly thereafter.
2017-06-8

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

Verizon Communications buys Yahoo! for $4.83 billion in cash, ending the latter's over 20-year run as an independent corporation.
2016-07-25

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! announces plans to axe 600 jobs and phase out services such as Delicious.
2010-12-16