by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 29, 2016 | World
European privacy watchdogs warned WhatsApp on Friday over sharing user information with parent company Facebook, and cautioned Yahoo over a 2014 data breach and scanning of customer emails for U.S. intelligence purposes. The popular messaging service’s recent...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 23, 2016 | Technology, World
Yahoo Inc. said on Thursday that at least 500 million of its accounts were hacked in 2014 by what it described as a state-sponsored actor. The attack on Yahoo was more than triple other large attacks on sites such as eBay Inc. Cyber thieves may have stolen names,...
by VINDU GOEL and MICHAEL J. de la MERCED | Jul 29, 2016 | Business
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo was the front door to the web for an early generation of internet users, and its services still attract a billion visitors a month. But the internet is an unforgiving place for yesterday’s great idea, and Yahoo has now reached the end of the line...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 7, 2013 | Media
San Francisco, AP—With every phone call they make and every Web excursion they take, people are leaving a digital trail of revealing data that can be tracked by profit-seeking companies and terrorist-hunting government officials. The revelations that the National...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 22, 2013 | Media
San Francisco, Reuters—Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Marissa Mayer’s USD 1.1 billion acquisition of blogging service Tumblr will be a test of her ability to revive the aging Web portal. Luckily for her, her performance may be graded generously. Mayer faces plenty of...
