The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Tim Armstrong is in talks to leave Verizon as soon as next month. Armstrong heads up the carrier giant’s digital and advertising division, Oath (formerly AOL, prior to the Yahoo acquisition and the subsequent merger of the two units). Oath also happens to be TechCrunch’s parent, of course. […]
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Yahoo still scans your emails for ads — even if its rivals won’t
You’re not the only one reading your emails. A deep dive in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday dug out new details on a massive email scanning operation by Oath, the Verizon-owned subsidiary that’s the combined business of AOL and Yahoo. The email-scanning program analyzes over 200 million AOL and Yahoo inboxes for data that […]
View More Yahoo still scans your emails for ads — even if its rivals won’tYahoo and AOL will continue to scan your emails for precious advertising data
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If you’re a Yahoo or AOL email user, advertisers have a pretty good picture of exactly who you are because Yahoo and AOL are scanning your emails.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Oath, the Verizon subsidiary that owns both email providers, “has been pitching a service to advertisers that analyzes more than 200 million Yahoo Mail inboxes and the rich user data they contain.” This data is then used to figure out what products and services to target its users with. The pitch also broadens out to bring AOL users’ emails into the fold.
After Verizon acquired AOL in 2015 and then Yahoo in 2017, the telecommunications giant rolled the two companies under a subsidiary that houses its digital content properties called Oath. Properties such as Huffington Post, Engadget, Tumblr, and Techcrunch all operate under the Oath umbrella. Using this data obtained through users’ emails, Oath can offer its advertisers precision ad targeting across these digital media properties. Read more…
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Y Combinator is launching a startup program in China
U.S. accelerator Y Combinator is expanding to China after it announced the hiring of former Microsoft and Baidu executive Qi Lu who will develop a standalone startup program that runs on Chinese soil. Shanghai-born Lu spent 11 years with Yahoo and eight years with Microsoft before a short spell with Baidu, where he was COO and […]
View More Y Combinator is launching a startup program in ChinaOutgoing Facebook CSO Alex Stamos will join Disrupt SF to talk cybersecurity
At Disrupt SF 2018, Facebook’s soon-to-be-former chief security officer Alex Stamos will join us to chat about his tenure in the top security role for the world’s biggest social network, how it feels to have weathered some of the biggest security and privacy scandals to ever hit the tech industry and securing U.S. elections in […]
View More Outgoing Facebook CSO Alex Stamos will join Disrupt SF to talk cybersecurityUK watchdog issues $330k fine for Yahoo’s 2014 data breach
Another fallout from the massive Yahoo data breach that dates back to 2014: The UK’s data watchdog has just issued a £250,000 (~$334k) penalty for violations of the Data Protection Act 1998. Yahoo, which has since been acquired by Verizon and merged with AOL to form a joint entity called Oath (which is also the parent […]
View More UK watchdog issues $330k fine for Yahoo’s 2014 data breachYahoo shuts down social savings app Tanda only months after launch
Well, that didn’t take long. Yahoo Finance’s new social savings app Tanda, which launched just this January, is already shutting down. The company announced the news of the app’s closure via a blog post, which vaguely hinted at a lack of traction. That appears to be true – the app isn’t even in the top […]
View More Yahoo shuts down social savings app Tanda only months after launchVerizon stealthily launched a startup offering $40-per-month unlimited data, messaging and minutes
Earlier this year, Verizon quietly launched a new startup called Visible, offering unlimited data, minutes, and messaging services for the low, low price of $40. To subscribe for the service, users simply download the Visible app (currently available only on iOS) and register. Right now, subscriptions are invitation only and would-be subscribers have to get an […]
View More Verizon stealthily launched a startup offering $40-per-month unlimited data, messaging and minutesFlickr’s new owner is here to save it from oblivion (again)
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After years of languishing under Yahoo’s (and, more recently, Oath’s) ownership, Flickr has finally found a buyer.
Image hosting company SmugMug announced Friday that it’d acquired Flickr for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition, which was first reported by USA Today, comes as Yahoo’s parent company, Oath, looks to slim down the company’s holdings.
Congrats to @DonMacAskill and his team @SmugMug on its deal to buy @Flickr – This is going to be a very good home for such an awesome service for the internet. The Flickr team is amazinghttps://t.co/QfVyXWAHvU
— Jeff Bonforte (@bonforte) April 20, 2018 Read more…
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View More Flickr’s new owner is here to save it from oblivion (again)Our digital future will be shaped by increasingly mobile technologies coming from China
Since the dawn of the internet, the titans of this industry have fought to win the “starting point” – the place that users start their online experiences. In other words, the place where they begin “browsing”. The advent of the dial up era had America Online mailing a CD to every home in America, which […]
View More Our digital future will be shaped by increasingly mobile technologies coming from ChinaHuffPost editor-in-chief Lydia Polgreen wants HuffPost to remain mostly free
As Lydia Polgreen sees it, society is currently divided into media haves and have nots, and it’s important for HuffPost to remain mostly free for its readers so that it can serve a group that mostly consumes content for free. Read More
Former state Senator Jeremy Ring talks about the first days of Yahoo
In this episode of Technotopia I talk to Jeremy Ring, a former Florida state senator and author of We Were Yahoo!, a meditation on his career as one of the first employees at Yahoo. Ring has a lot to say about the search giant – including plenty of complaints about how things were run over the years – and some insights into technology and modern politics. His book is available now… Read More