Verizon Probably Really Regrets Buying Yahoo and AOL
Verizon disclosed on Tuesday that Oath, the subsidiary company which it created to manage acquisitions like its $4.5…
Oath Will Pay $5 Million to Settle Charges of Violating Children's Privacy
Oath, the Verizon subsidiary born of the fusion of AOL and Yahoo, has agreed to pay $4.95 million to settle charges…
Yahoo to Pay $50 Million to Victims of Massive Security Breach
Yahoo’s ongoing legal troubles related to the biggest data breach in history appear to be coming to a close. It has…
Bing and Yahoo Are Surfacing Some Extremely Racist Search Queries
In yet another case of a search engine finding itself in hot water over racist, sexist, or otherwise problematic search…
Should Your Family Be Able to Inherit Your Facebook Messages?
This week, a German federal court ruled that Facebook must give the mother of a dead 15-year-old access to her entire…
Yahoo Messenger Is Dead, Long Live Squirrel!
Verizon paid billions last year for the privilege of ushering Yahoo’s services into the great unknown and on Friday it…
Squirrel Is a New App That’s Just Like Slack but Made by Yahoo, and We’ll Leave It at That
Well this is odd. It looks like Yahoo is releasing a new messaging app. The invite-only service is called Squirrel, as A…
Verizon Signs Deal to Place the Saddest, Most Pathetic Bloatware on Samsung Devices [Updated]
In the latest chapter of Yahoo’s fall from grace, the once-prominent internet company has been relegated to the role of…
SEC Fines Yahoo $35 Million for Failing to Disclose Hacks
Altaba, the holding company formed to carry the remains of Yahoo after it sold its core business to Verizon, has agreed…
Flickr Takes Another Sad Turn, Gets Bought by Something Called SmugMug
In the latest of an endless series of unfortunate events to befall the once beloved photo-sharing service Flickr, the…
PSA to Yahoo and AOL Users: Your Emails Can Be Scanned for Targeted Advertising
If you use AOL or Yahoo for email, you should be aware that a recent change in the privacy policy of Oath—the umbrella…
Tumblr's State-Sponsored Disinformation Blogs, Ranked
America was the target of broad, state-sponsored disinformation campaigns waged through social media platforms. Tumblr,…
Judge Says Users Can Sue Yahoo for Massive Breach
A federal judge in California has ruled that a class action lawsuit against Yahoo related to a series of data breaches…
Yahoo’s Insanely Bad Deal to Pay Mozilla $375 Million a Year for Nothing Is Headed to Court
In its 23 years of existence, Yahoo made some really boneheaded deals. But of all of them, the deal to become Mozilla’s…
Man Pleads Guilty In Massive Yahoo Hack
Karim Baratov, the 23-year-old Canadian man implicated in the hacking of 500 million Yahoo accounts, pleaded guilty to…
Tumblr Founder David Karp Steps Down
After 11 years, Tumblr’s founder and public face David Karp announced his resignation from the company in a staff email…
New Firefox Defaults to Google, Ends Friendship With Yahoo [UPDATED]
Mozilla’s new Firefox Quantum browser launched on Wednesday, and there’s a lot to like about it. One change you might…
Equifax and Yahoo Complain They Are Helpless Against State-Sponsored Hacks
Former and current Equifax and Yahoo executives appeared on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to testify about the major…
Oath Senior Vice President to Staff: 'Go Fuck Yourself' [Updated]
Back in June, Verizon closed a $4.5 billion merger to swallow Yahoo, agglomerate its legacy AOL brands into the mix,…
The AOL-Yahoo Merger Apparently Smells Like Grapefruit, Cedar and 'Salty Ozone'
Oath isn’t just Verizon’s cultishly-named agglomeration of Yahoo, AOL, and 12 other legacy web brands of varying…