In 2015 Verizon bought AOL for about $4.4 billion while AOL was under Tim Armstrong’s leadership. Then in 2016, Verizon bought Yahoo for about $4.83 billion while Yahoo was under Marissa Mayer’s leadership.
A day or so ago ago, via a SEC filing, we learned two things about Yahoo. First, Marissa Mayer will be stepping down and second, the company will be renamed to Altaba. Marissa left Google, at her pretty high position there…
Yahoo says “Donald Trump” ranked as its second most popular search of the year, while “Hillary Clinton” barely made the top 10. The post Yahoo 2016 Year in Review: ‘2016 Election’ top search term & ‘Election Day’ No. 1 news story appeared first on Search Engine Land
This comes as no surprise, as you know, Yahoo was looking to sell and over the weekend…
Wall Street Journal reports Yahoo has set a deadline for when all bids need to be submitted to Yahoo for selling all or parts of the company. The deadline is April 11th..
With its now nearly infinite news stream, Yahoo users no longer need to open news articles in multiple browser tabs. The post Yahoo Redesigns Home Page & App To Deliver Consistent Experience With More Relevant News appeared first on Search Engine Land.
Business Insider reports that Yahoo is prepping to layoff about 10% of its workforce.
Yahoo has sent out an email to customers of their Yahoo Small Business service that the Yahoo Small Business program will be spun off at Yahoo and owned by a new company in the future…
The Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo’s CEO, Marissa Mayer said in an earnings call that they have a new deal with Oracle that when someone installs a Java update, it will prompt the user to switch their default search engine to Yahoo Search…
Yahoo’s CEO, Marissa Mayer, announced on Tumblr that they have renewed and extended their deal with Microsoft on their search front. In short, Bing will still power much of Yahoo Search but Yahoo does gain more control..