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Yahoo confirmed plans today to lay off approximately 15 percent of its workforce. The company made the announcement in conjunction with its its fourth quarter earnings, where it reported revenue of

Yahoo has today confirmed rumors it is scrapping a plan to spin off its stake in Chinese ecommerce company Alibaba. Its shares are up in pre-market trading on the news.

Marissa Mayer is expecting twins, but the Yahoo CEO and former Google executive isn't planning to take a significant break from work during or after her pregnancy.

Obscured in the valuation dust of the current unicorn stampede is a key question: What actually makes a great company great? What do the future Facebooks, Googles and Apples have in common -- not to m

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said at the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco today that potential changes in the way its Alibaba spinoff could be taxed would not be an issue as the company continues

After months of negotiations, Microsoft and Yahoo today finally announced a renewed search alliance, which includes amendments to the two companies’ earlier partnership. It will give Yahoo more

Disrupt NY will be here in no time, and you know what that means. You should probably get started on Disrupt NY Battlefield applications. We're about to close submissions so we want you to be able to

Today at Yahoo’s first mobile developer conference, the tech giant unveiled its new Yahoo Mobile Development Suite that combines Yahoo App Publishing for monetization, Search In Apps, and App Ma

I'm reluctant to cite what I'm about to cite. It's scathing. It's scurrilous. It's caustic criticism that seems often overblown and, in some cases, deliberately devoid of context. It's the <i>New York

“Mobile is doubling on every traffic metric we have,” she said. But it doesn’t mean that Yahoo’s mobile strategy is already successful. Yahoo ended 2013 with no apps in Apple&#

Speaking on stage at Disrupt New York, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer explained the strategy behind the company's new foray into producing original television content. "Can you tell me what Yahoo is?" Tec

Disrupt NY 2014 is mere days away, and we’re thrilled to announce that Yahoo CEO <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/marissa-mayer">Marissa Mayer</a> will be joining Michael Ar

This May 8th, Y Combinator’s Sam Altman and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will hold a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee headlined by President Obama. The fête will take place at Y C

What's that old saying? Software will eat the world? That was never more evident than at CES 2014. Now that the dust has settled, the Gorkana Group has released a social insight report for the event,

Protesters, targeting Walmart Board Member Marissa Mayer, disrupted a fireside chat today between her and Salesforce’s Marc Benioff at the SaaS provider’s annual conference at the Moscone

Marissa Mayer's repainting of Yahoo's 'front door' has expanded its international reach, with the "more modern" looking homepage now being rolled out to seven global markets, six of them in Europe. Th

At TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013, Yahoo CEO <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/marissa-mayer">Marissa Mayer</a> sat down with Michael Arrington to discuss the state of Yahoo. After

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.yahoo.com">Yahoo</a> has picked up a bunch of new talent through the 20+ acqui-hires it has made since Marissa Mayer took over as CEO in 2012, but Yahoo's push to g

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced today at TechCrunch Disrupt that Yahoo monthly active users are up 20% to 800 million globally, including 350 million monthly active users on mobile. Mayer said those

Amazon has reportedly submitted plans for a new futuristic headquarters in Seattle that couples a skyscraper and an accompanying tri-sphere bio-dome like structure. According to the plans, the structu