SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc said it acquired a five-person video chat company on Tuesday, the second deal by new Chief Executive Marissa Mayer to bolster Yahoo’s mobile capabilities.
Yahoo did not disclose the financial terms of its acquisition of OnTheAir, but said the team would be joining Yahoo’s mobile group.
San Francisco (dpa) – Yahoo has unveiled a new type of search platform that it hopes will restore the struggling web pioneer to something of its former glory.
Released late Wednesday by the Silicon Valley company, Axis, as it is known, is currently available as an app for Apple’s iPhones and iPads and as an extension to the top four desktop browsers Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari and Firefox.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson says he didn’t provide the information that led the troubled Internet company to list a bogus college degree in his official biography. That’s according to a person familiar with the matter.
The person asked not to be identified because Thompson made the remarks in a private meeting Thursday with other Yahoo executives. His comments were first reported by Reuters.
