Yahoo

The company’s advertising group will be reduced by half by the end of the year

Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer on Wednesday announced the launch of Sunshine, a consumer apps start-up.

Social networking site Tumblr has announced plans to ban all pornographic content, effective from 17 December.

Yahoo's UK arm has been fined £250,000 ($335,000) by the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) over a data breach affecting more than 500 million users which took place in 2014.

Yahoo has said that all of its three billion user accounts were affected in a hacking attack dating back to 2013.

All of the websites owned by Yahoo are now officially part of Verizon. And former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, who famously left Google to take over the Purple Portal, is walking away from the company with a pretty sweet deal. Nearly $260 million.

OUTGOING Yahoo boss Marissa Mayer will receive a $30 million ($US23 million) golden parachute, while her replacement will receive double her base salary.

YAHOO has admitted that hackers breached its system to steal data from one billion user accounts in a massive cyber attack that was unreported for more than three years.

Yahoo secretly scanned millions of its users' email accounts on behalf of the US government, according to a report.

Yahoo has confirmed a massive data breach that compromised the accounts of "at least" 500 million users.

Yahoo did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

YAHOO’S latest earnings report leaves no doubt the internet company is stuck in a downward spiral.

Marissa Mayer may be ending her tenure at Yahoo on a sour note.

YAHOO CEO Marissa Mayer tried to hit all the upbeat notes during an annual shareholders meeting as the company considers selling its slumping internet operations.

Marissa Mayer and activist hedge fund manager Jeff Smith have been locked in a bitter struggle for control of Yahoo. Now Smith is Mayer's boss.