Washington, June 15 (ANI): Internet corporation Yahoo had been reportedly forced into furnishing user data to the US-led NSA's Prism programme following court orders in 2008.

London, June 14 (ANI): Internet corporation Yahoo has filed a patent to make ad charges based social reputation of viewers measured in terms of their social media presence.

Wellington, June 13 (ANI): Internet corporation Yahoo has decided to release inactive email IDs which have been dysfunctional for more than a year to be identified by the users and provide them a last chance to re-use their existing email address.

London, June 12 (ANI): Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has auctioned off a lunch opportunity with her to raise money for the Aspire East Palo Alto Charter School.

Beijing, June 7 (Xinhua-ANI): The U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Thursday defended the code-named PRISM program that tapped into internet companies for intelligence, saying the related reports published by the British Guardian newspaper and the Washington Post contained "numerous inaccuracies."

London, June 4 (ANI): Yahoo users will now have to switch to the search engine's new e-mail service, which is known to be the second or third most popular on the web.

Washington, June 1 (ANI): A British telecom company has ditched the third-largest email provider, Yahoo Mail, as its default email service, keeping in view the service's vulnerability to getting hacked.

London, May 31(ANI): Big Five, the five biggest internet companies of the world, which include Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, Twitter and Google have warned the Home Secretary that they would not co-operate voluntarily with Snooper's charter.

Sydney, May 27 (ANI): After purchasing Tumblr for a whopping 1.1 billion dollars, Yahoo has reportedly filed a bid for online TV service Hulu, which has revenue of 700 million dollars.

Sydney, May 25 (ANI): Yahoo's just acquired Tumblr would make its founder and loyal staff richer by millions.

London, May 23 (ANI): German chancellor Angela Merkel has been named as the most powerful woman in the world for the third successive year by business magazine Forbes.

London, May 21 (ANI): Yahoo Japan faced a hack attack, which reportedly led to a theft of 22 million user ids that constitutes one tenth of its 200 million members.

Sydney, May 21(ANI): Hours after Yahoo announced its acquisition of Tumblr for 1.1 billion dollars, the latter's users have started posting threats about exiting from the site.

Washington, May 21 (ANI): After acquiring Tumblr for 1.1 billion dollars, Yahoo has announced major changes to its photo sharing service Flickr.

London, May 20 (ANI): Yahoo Inc. has approved a deal to buy New York-based blogging service Tumblr for 1.1 billion dollars. The acquisition is expected to be announced as early as Monday.

Washington, May 20 (ANI): Yahoo Board has reportedly approved a telephonic deal with New York-based social blogging site Tumblr to acquire the blogging site for 1.1 billion dollars in cash, although Tumblr will function independently despite the Internet icon investing in the company.

London, May 18 (ANI): Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has revealed that the search engine is in talks to acquire Tumblr for a billion dollars, and enter the premier league of social media.

Washington, May 11 (ANI): Yahoo! Inc. is considering bidding for Hulu LLC's streaming-TV service.

Washington, May 10 (ANI): The National Security Agency (NSA) has released a guide to 'help you understand how to use the Internet more efficiently'.

Washington, May 4 (ANI): Microsoft has announced it has successfully transferred all Hotmail.com users to Outlook.com.

Sydney, May 1 (ANI): Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer has proposed gifts for infants of its employees, besides puppies and kittens as perks to boost work morale.

Sydney, May 1 (ANI): New Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer's compensation package totals more than 70 million dollars, including her basic pay, performance bonus and restricted stock, according to a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Sydney, Apr. 26 (ANI): Internet firm Yahoo has announced that the board chairman Fred Amoroso will leave the position later this year.

Sydney, Apr 23 (ANI): Yahoo has released an iPhone app that weaves in story summarising software, which the Internet giant purchased a British schoolboy for 30 million dollars.

Sydney, Apr 23 (ANI): Internet search giant Google is planning to change its iconic home page, the firms news website has said.