Tech giant Yahoo is to adopt a new corporate identity and slash the size of its board if the proposed US$4.8bn sale of its digital services to Verizon Communications goes ahead.

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Yahoo has said it has identified a new system breach that occurred in August 2013 and involved data associated with more than one billion user accounts.

Germany's highest court has rejected a case brought by Yahoo against a law designed to compensate news publishers for the use of their content.

Yahoo has reportedly scanned hundreds of millions of email accounts at the behest of US intelligence or law enforcement.

According to security firm Sophos this is wha you should do if you think you have been affected by the Yahoo data breach.

Yahoo has confirmed personal data from 500 million accounts has been stolen in a massive security breach.

Verizon Communications agreed to buy Yahoo’s web assets for $4.83bn (€4.39bn), ending the company’s two-decade run as an independent business that took it from Stanford University startup at the dawn of the internet age to also-ran behind nimbler online rivals such as Google and Facebook.

US Stocks fell moderately today as investors took a break after four weeks of gains that brought the market to record highs.

US telecoms giant Verizon said it will a create mobile media giant with one billion users after snapping up Yahoo for US$4.83bn.

US telecoms firm Verizon has agreed to buy online portal Yahoo for roughly five billion dollars, according to reports.

US telecommunications rivals Verizon and AT&T are set to go through to the third and final round of bidding in the auction for Yahoo’s core internet assets.

The legend that is Warren Buffett spread in an even wider arc around the globe at the weekend, as the iconic Berkshire-Hathaway annual general meeting streamed live on the internet for the first time.

The publisher of Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper is interested in buying Yahoo’s media and news properties and is in talks to join with potential bidders who would carve up the US Internet company.

Stocks ended Monday's session mostly unchanged as investors waited for first-quarter company earnings to start rolling in.

Yahoo investor Starboard Value has nominated nine directors to replace the entire board at the struggling web portal, which it contends has been mismanaged under CEO Marissa Mayer.

Yahoo has formed a committee of independent directors to explore strategic alternatives, alongside its plan to revamp and spin off its internet business.

Yahoo is laying off about 1,700 employees in a shake-up likely to determine whether chief executive Marissa Mayer can save her own job.

Internet giant Yahoo has announced it's cutting roughly 16,000 jobs from its global workforce

Internet giants have joined forces to attack parts of the UK Government’s proposed new snooping Bill.

Yahoo has pulled the plug on an online video hub that had once been envisioned as the beleaguered company’s answer to Netflix and YouTube.