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Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) released its fourth quarter earnings Tuesday after the closing bell. As of Wednesday morning, the stock was down about three percent in pre-market trading. Here are some highlights from the conference call. CEO Marissa Meyer was the first to speak. She noted that the...

Marissa Mayer, Chief Executive Officer at Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) fired the company's second-in-command and Chief Operating Officer, Henrique de Castro. De Castro was Mayer's first major hire when she joined the company, tempting him with a four year, $62 million salary to join her in an exodus from...

Some techies might expect the major news stories to disappear in the days leading up to Christmas. That might happen, but it hasn't happened yet. This week proved to very fruitful, with rumors (and leaks!) surrounding the China Mobile (NYSE: CHL) iPhone deal. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) got the...

Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) recently added two new startups to the family: Ptch and Evntlive. According to BusinessInsider, Ptch (pronounced "pitch") came with a price tag of $6.5 million. BI's sources claim that Yahoo didn't buy Ptch to acquire new talent. Rather, the company wanted the technology,...

When Hewlett-Packard (NASDAQ: HPQ) created the Chromebook 11, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) knew the product would be hot. Unfortunately, the search engine giant had no idea it would be so hot that the charger would overheat and (in some instances) melt. According to Bloomberg, Google and Hewlett-Packard...

The National Security Agency is coming under fire again after it was revealed that the agency may have secretly broken into data centers from both Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO). According to the Washington Post, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden has provided documents...

If you can’t beat them, buy them. It’s been the way of the corporate giants for ages. A big company swallows up a smaller one as it gains momentum and looks to present a formidable threat to the larger Goliath. Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) announced that it was acquiring Bread, a URL shortener that...

From the expected to the surprising, the financial media space is constantly in flux. With the growth of competition among television and Internet, more opportunities arise. Are media powerhouses like CNBC losing ground to the ever-fledgling world of online media? Sometimes, opportunities dwindle...

This was an interesting week for the tech industry. There weren't too many big announcements, but there were enough tidbits (key Apple rumors, another Gmail outage) to keep things interesting. Chromebooks took center stage as Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) and Acer unveiled new models. The iPhone...

A small number of users are having trouble accessing their Gmail accounts today. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has yet to acknowledge the issues on its app status page, but there have been a handful of complaints cropping up on Twitter. Anyone experiencing gmail issues today? I've been locked out and...

Android phones may be more successful, but Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) hugely popular smartphone has won the hearts of millions of customers. And, as luck would have it, one multinational Internet corporation. Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), one of the largest media companies in the world, has chosen to use a...

The latest comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR) data were released and it’s a win for Apple. The report covers the three-month period ending August 2013. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is, again, the top smartphone manufacturer with 40.7 percent of OEM market share. That represents a 1.5 percent increase from the...

It took less than 48 hours to defeat Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL)’s new Touch ID biometric security system. Hacking the sophisticated fingerprint ID mechanism involved the use of such high-tech items as Super Glue and a camera according to AppleInsider. So much for next-generation security. The German...