Yahoo Finance today launched a new app called Tanda that allows small groups of either five or nine people to save money together for short-term goals. The app uses the concept of a “money pool” – that is, everyone participating in one Tanda’s collaborative savings circles will pay a fixed amount to the group’s savings pot every month. And every month, one member… Read More
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The rest of the NFL playoffs will stream on Yahoo’s sports app
If you’re an NFL fan planning on being out and about this coming weekend or maybe just stuck in a situation where you can’t get to a television, there’s good news: Yahoo will stream all four playoff games of the NFL’s Divisional Round.
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The NFL and Verizon’s new streaming deal will bring games to all mobile carriers
Verizon will no longer be the exclusive U.S. mobile carrier for watching NFL games on smartphones and tablets. According to an announcement this morning, the company – and TechCrunch’s parent, by way of Oath – says that it has closed a new deal with the National Football League that will allow it to stream live games to fans regardless of mobile network.
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Mozilla and Yahoo are suing each over Firefox’s default search engine
In yet another tech battle of the titans, Mozilla and Oath are suing each other over a contract that set Yahoo as the default search engine for Mozilla’s Firefox browser.
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Oath and Mozilla are suing each other after Firefox switches back to Google search
Firefox’s default search engine has become the subject of a hotly contested legal battle, a few weeks after Mozilla announced it would be moving from Yahoo to Google. Yahoo’s new parent Oath filed a complaint against Mozilla in a California court on December 1, alleging a breach of contract. Now Mozilla has filed a counter complaint, stating that the switch back was in line with a… Read More
A man just pled guilty for his role in that massive Yahoo hack
Remember that massive Yahoo hack? Not the one in 2013 that resulted in the theft of around a billion users’ data, but the breach in 2014 that led to the compromising of some 500 million user accounts? Yeah, that one.
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Canadian hacker pleads guilty in huge Yahoo hack case
A Canadian citizen has pleaded guilty to aiding Russian intelligence officers in a 2014 hack of Yahoo that exposed as many as 500 million accounts. The defendant, 22 year-old Karim Baratov, is the only arrest to come out of the Yahoo hack as the …
View More Canadian hacker pleads guilty in huge Yahoo hack caseEven David Karp himself doesn’t use Yahoo Mail
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Did anyone else notice that David Karp’s resignation letter from Tumblr was clearly written in Gmail?
That’s right, Karp, we caught you. Tumblr’s founder and former CEO doesn’t use Yahoo mail, the mail service of Tumblr’s parent company.
Your proof: the email Karp sent to his staff explaining his resignation. The layout, font, and interface of his screenshot are clearly that of Google’s email service — not Yahoo’s.
Tumblr did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Image: tumblr/google
In the letter, Karp states that “This team and place has been my family and home for most of my adult life.” Clearly, however, it hasn’t been the home of his emails correspondence. Read more…
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Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp is stepping down after more than 10 years.
“I beg you to understand that my decision comes after months of reflection on my personal ambitions, and at no cost to my hopefulness for Tumblr’s future or the impact I know it can have,” Karp wrote in a letter to employees.
A spokesperson for Tumblr parent company Oath confirmed the news, saying the company’s COO, Jeff D’Onofrio, will oversee Tumblr after Karp’s departure,
Though the longtime CEO, who together with developer Marco Arment founded Tumblr in 2006, was never as high profile as other tech CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg or former boss Marissa Mayer, he was widely loved and respected among Tumblr’s legion of hardcore fans. Read more…
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View More Tumblr CEO David Karp is leaving the company after more than 10 yearsLatest round of Verizon layoffs at Oath affects <4% of staff globally
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Mozilla terminates its deal with Yahoo and makes Google the default in Firefox again
With the launch of Firefox Quantum, Mozilla released what’s probably the most important update to its browser in recent years. It’s faster, lighter and you should give it a try. And as you do so, you’ll notice another change: Google is now the default search engine again — at least if you live in the U.S., Canada, Hong Kong and Taiwan. In 2014, Mozilla struck a deal… Read More
Crunch Report | Yahoo hack is still a mystery
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