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Report: U.K. Program Spied on Yahoo Webcam Chats

2014-02-27 23:34:05| PC Magazine Software Product Guide

Britain's surveillance agency and a top U.S. security group reportedly intercepted and saved photos from millions of Yahoo users' webcams.

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Report: U.K. Program Spied on Yahoo Webcam Chats

2014-02-27 23:34:04| PC Magazine Security Product Guide

Britain's surveillance agency and a top U.S. security group reportedly intercepted and saved photos from millions of Yahoo users' webcams.

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Marissa Mayer says Yahoo investing in search

2014-02-12 14:08:46| InfoWorld: Top News

If you think Yahoo has given up on search, think again. The company may have handed its back-end search operations to Microsoft, but Marissa Mayer thinks there's work to be done on mobile devices, particularly around contextual search. Contextual search aims to give people the right information, at the right time, by looking at signals such as where they're located and what they're doing -- such as walking or driving a car. Mobile devices tend to provide a lot more of those signals.

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Yahoo acquires diary app maker Wander with an eye toward mobile

2014-02-12 13:23:00| InfoWorld: Top News

Yahoo has acquired Wander, a startup that makes a diary app, as part of the Internet company's continuing efforts to improve its products on mobile devices. Wander makes an app for the iPhone called Days, which is designed to let its users share photos and animated GIFs in a single package from a daylong period. The idea is to give the images context, as opposed to sharing photos individually, as users do with Instagram.

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