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Tumblr was an early social media favorite. What happened?

by Jack Stewart
Aug 13, 2019
Verizon is selling Tumblr, the social blogging platform.
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Verizon's bet on Oath falters

by Amy Scott
Dec 11, 2018
Verizon created Oath out of its investments in “legacy” digital media companies AOL and Yahoo. The goal was to compete with internet giants Facebook and Google. It seems that the world’s biggest wireless network just wasn’t able to make that work. Click the audio player above to hear the full story.
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Tim Armstrong: People need to vote on net neutrality

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Feb 19, 2018
Oath is uniting AOL and Yahoo, but can it compete with today's online giants?
“The net neutrality debate has to end up in Congress,” says Oath CEO Tim Armstrong, onstage at the Makers Conference at Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles.
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The Source Code: Tim Armstrong

by Molly Wood and Stephanie Hughes
Feb 19, 2018
The CEO of Oath talks about the combination of AOL and Yahoo.
Tim Armstrong speaks at an event on the Times Center Stage in New York City.
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The largest data breach in history was bigger than we thought

by Amy Scott and Kristin Schwab
Oct 5, 2017
All Yahoo accounts created before 2013 have been hacked.
The Yahoo logo is displayed in front of the Yahoo headquarters on July 2012 in Sunnyvale, California.
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Yahoo and AOL will form Oath, a new company, under Verizon

by Marielle Segarra
Jun 13, 2017
Verizon is expected to close on its $4.4 billion acquisition of Yahoo today after nearly a year of negotiations. Verizon will combine Yahoo with its property AOL to create Oath, the largest digital media company in the United States, with more visitors than Google. Will Oath have a chance to compete with Google and Facebook […]
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US charges Russian officials, hackers in mass Yahoo breach

by Marketplace Contributor
Mar 15, 2017
The breach affected at least half a billion user accounts.
A view of Yahoo's headquarters in Sunnyvale, California.
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Hackers hit Yahoo again in largest data breach ever

by Reema Khrais
Dec 15, 2016
Yahoo users list many reasons to stay loyal.
   
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Another 1 billion Yahoo accounts were hacked in 2013

by Kai Ryssdal
Dec 14, 2016
The company released a statement detailing yet another security breach.
Yahoo! President and CEO Marissa Mayer delivers a keynote address at the 2014 International CES at The Las Vegas Hotel & Casino on January 7, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Yahoo doesn't deny it scanned users' emails

by Molly Wood
Oct 5, 2016
A company statement says the story is "misleading," but not inaccurate, while the New York Times gets more details.
 
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