9 Best Articles in 2022
Gizmodo
How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
Gizmodo
20+ min read · From 2017 · Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet out of that structure can come art. But code is art that does something. It is the assembly of something brand new from nothing but an idea.
New York Magazine
Did I Make a Mistake Selling My Social-Media Darling to Yahoo?
New York Magazine
~13 min read · From 2018 · Yahoo was negotiating to buy Facebook and Del.icio.us at the same time. Zuckerberg famously said no. Del.icio.us CEO Joshua Schachter said yes.
Fast Company
The Glory That Was Yahoo
Fast Company
9 min read · From 2018 · For one brief shining moment, Yahoo was the king of all it surveyed. Then everything went to hell.
Gizmodo
Here's What Happened To All 53 of Marissa Mayer's Yahoo Acquisitions
Gizmodo
~12 min read · From 2017 · Yahoo, the once-vaunted internet giant, is in shambles. Its revenue is in decline. Its shareholders are crying foul. Its prized public faces are scrambling for an exit, and the company has laid off 15 percent of its workforce. Its core business—internet search and advertising—is negatively valued. Looming over all of this is a prospective sale of the company’s core assets, bids for which have reportedly reached more than $5 billion.
The Verge
Yahoo redesigns its logo to remind you that Yahoo exists
The Verge
2 min read · From 2019 · Also, Yahoo Mail has a new design
TNW
Verizon-owned Yahoo is killing off the best app it's ever made
TNW
4 min read · From 2017 · Under the reign of its new owner Verizon, Yahoo is killing off News Digest, one of the best mobile apps I've ever used in the past three years.
Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance - Business Finance, Stock Market, Quotes, News
Yahoo Finance
20+ min read · From 2017 · At Yahoo Finance, you get free stock quotes, up-to-date news, portfolio management resources, international market data, social interaction and mortgage rates that help you manage your financial life.
The Verge
Yahoo Answers will be shut down forever on May 4th
The Verge
3 min read · 2021-04-05 · Yahoo Answers will see its final day next month.
pipes.digital
Re-live Yahoo Pipes
pipes.digital
1 min read · From 2017 · You don't need programming experience to get good results. Blocks contain powerful logic to manipulate your data stream. Profit from and support the open web, by consuming and producing open standards…
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news.yahoo.com
Operation Whistle Pig: Inside the secret CBP unit with no rules that investigates Americans
news.yahoo.com
20+ min read · 2021-12-11 · Documents obtained by Yahoo News show that the Counter Network Division, a secretive entity within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, routinely used sensitive databases to obtain financial and…
Yahoo Finance
Facebook/Meta is the worst company of the year, Yahoo Finance audience survey finds
Yahoo Finance
4 min read · 2021-12-16 · In Yahoo Finance's annual poll, Meta (formerly Facebook) was the worst company of the year. Stock performance, complaints, politics, congressional hearings and more had people upset.
9to5Mac.com
Shocking no one, Facebook/Meta earns title of the worst company of the year
9to5Mac.com
1 min read · 2021-12-19 · An audience survey of Yahoo! Finances found that Meta, formerly known as Facebook, is the worst company of the year.
Slashdot
Yahoo Tells Japan Employees They Can Work Anywhere, Commute By Plane When Necessary
Slashdot
1 min read · Jan 14th · Yahoo Japan is telling its 8,000 employees they can work anywhere in the country -- and even be flown into work when the job requires it -- bucking the trend of companies looking to return workers to…
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The New York Times
Yahoo Answers, a Haven for the Confused, Is Shutting Down
The New York Times
5 min read · 2021-04-06 · People used Yahoo Answers to ask weird questions, seek help and make jokes. But the service offered “real human reaction, for better or for worse,” one longtime observer said.
Mashable
How Yahoo derailed Tumblr
Mashable
~13 min read · From 2016 · Marissa Mayer was running late. This time, it wasn’t for a dinner with skeptical advertisers nor a conference call with her inner circle of Yahoo executives. She was late for a rare meeting with much ...
Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance - Business Finance, Stock Market, Quotes, News
Yahoo Finance
20+ min read · From 2016 · At Yahoo Finance, you get free stock quotes, up-to-date news, portfolio management resources, international market data, social interaction and mortgage rates that help you manage your financial life.
Reuters
Exclusive: Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence
Reuters
5 min read · From 2016 · Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter.
Hustle_says
The yodeler who sued Yahoo
Hustle_says
6 min read · From 2019 · Twenty years ago, Yahoo decided to roll out a new national advertising campaign. Unfortunately, it didn’t reveal this plan to its star yodeler.
oath.com
Open Sourcing Vespa, Yahoo’s Big Data Processing and Serving Engine
oath.com
4 min read · From 2017 · By Jon Bratseth, Distinguished Architect, Vespa Ever since we open sourced Hadoop in 2006, Yahoo – and now, Oath – has been committed to opening up its big data infrastructure to the la...
Paul Graham
What Happened to Yahoo
Paul Graham
8 min read · From 2015 · Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator. August 2010When I went to work for Yahoo after they bought our startup in 1998, it felt like the center of the world. It was supposed to be the…
The New York Times
Marissa Mayer Is Still Here
The New York Times
6 min read · From 2018 · The former Yahoo chief is renting Google’s original office, where “there’s a lot of good juju,” and planning her next act. She just won’t say what it is.
Nir Eyal
Don’t Ask People What They Want, Watch What They Do
Nir Eyal
5 min read · From 2017 · Nir’s Note: Irene Au is a design partner at Khosla Ventures and former Head of Design at Google, Yahoo, and Udacity. She’ll be speaking at the upcoming Habit Summit in April. (You can register here!) In this interview, she chats with Max Ogles about design strategy for startups. Q: You have an impressive background as a designer at Google, Yahoo, and now at Khosla Ventures. Could you describe how your design role translates in venture capital? Irene Au: As entrepreneurs start to recognize how cr
