A Chinese reporter who was jailed in 2005 after Yahoo disclosed details of his email has been released, a writer’s group announced.

Yahoo is on the verge of buying online content-sharing site Tumblr in a 1.1 billion dollar deal.

Internet technology giants Yahoo and McAfee are to hire 260 people over the next few years.

Two American companies are to create 260 new jobs in Dublin and Cork over the next 12 months.

Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer turned in an encouraging report card covering her first few months running the troubled internet company.

Yahoo has hired long-time Google executive Marissa Mayer as its next chief executive in the internet company’s latest attempt to burnish its image and revive its financial growth after years of often-demoralising upheaval.

A major Yahoo shareholder has made a legal demand for internal records about the embattled internet company’s hiring of chief executive Scott Thompson.

Yahoo is suing Facebook over patents, weeks before the social-networking heavyweight is due to cash in with its initial public offering of stock.

AN industrial chemical once widely used in dry-cleaning solutions, paints and adhesives has been linked to a six-fold increased risk of Parkinson’s disease.

A FORMER college student charged with hacking Sarah Palin’s email account fears some jurors in heavily Republican East Tennessee could be dazzled when the conservative star testifies.

American internet firm Yahoo has appointed co-founder Jerry Yang as its new chief executive after chairman Terry Semel stepped down from the role.

A jailed Chinese reporter accused of leaking state secrets has joined a US lawsuit claiming Yahoo helped the Chinese government convict dissidents, his mother said today.

Janet Jackson thrilled car washing kids in Sunnyvale, California during a recent trip to her favourite smoothie hang-out by treating them to pizza and a large cash handout.

Tom Cruise reenacted his sofa-jumping escapade on The Oprah Winfrey Show when he appeared at Yahoo's Influential Speakers showcase on Tuesday.

DESPERATE Housewives star Teri Hatcher has revealed she was sexually abused by an uncle as a child but kept it secret until he was arrested years later for molesting a girl who ultimately committed suicide.

Desperate Housewives star Teri Hatcher was sexually molested by her uncle as a child.

In a major expansion, Yahoo says its online search engine index now spans more than 20 billion web documents and images, nearly double the material scanned by rival Google.

Ireland has scored another major international investment contract.

Juniper Networks is to buy network security appliance specialist NetScreen Technologies in a deal worth $4bn (€3.15bn).