Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been desperately trying to lure consumers back to the company’s products, like Yahoo Mail and search. But now she may be considering another option: selling Yahoo’s iconic Internet services altogether, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. The company will weigh the decision to sell its core business …

When was the last time you used Yahoo Answers? Can’t remember? You probably haven’t used Yahoo Real Estate, Notepad or Local in awhile either. The Sunnyvale, California-based Web giant lists roughly 60 products and services in the US, but the portfolio is in such disarray that Yahoo itself can’t keep track of it. Clicking on some services, like Contacts, yields …

Yahoo’s daily fantasy sports service is under scrutiny, but the struggling company is hoping it won’t be game over. On Tuesday, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman expanded his probe of fantasy sports services and issued a subpoena to Yahoo, according to a report by The New York Times. The move coincides with Schneiderman seeking an injunction against FanDuel …

If Google had its way, your only app would be its own. There was once a time when searching the Web meant sitting in front of a desktop computer and typing words into the search box at Google.com. Now, we have powerful computers in our pockets and more often people are opening a smartphone app instead of going to Google. …

SAN BRUNO, California — In a cable car high above Japan, the country’s distinctive architecture unfurls beneath me. I see clay kawara tiles covering rooftops, shimmering as the cable car gently swings. Suddenly everything stops, then goes dim. YouTube is buffering. The experience, which took place in YouTube’s unassuming headquarters here, underscores the promise and challenge of the video-streaming service’s …

Good news, Chromebook fans. Google says it isn’t going to let the metallic-named software that powers them get rusty. Last week, the future of Chromebooks, the low-cost laptops powered by the search giant’s Chrome OS, was called into question when The Wall Street Journal reported Google would fold the software into its Android operating system for smartphones and tablets. Such …

For Google, smartphones, tablets, laptops and more may all soon answer to Android. The Mountain View, California, company is looking to bring its Android mobile software to laptop computers, according to a report Thursday by The Wall Street Journal. As part of that push, Google may annex some parts of its Chrome OS software, which mainly powers its Chromebook laptops, …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — Alphabet’s Project Loon is one step closer to taking flight. The project uses high-flying balloons to beam Wi-Fi access to remote areas of the globe. Alphabet, the new parent company of Google, said Wednesday it will begin testing the balloons in Indonesia. Alphabet is signing a preliminary agreement, known as a memorandum of understanding, with three …

Soon after Matthew Mengerink became YouTube’s engineering chief a few weeks back, he got a taste of the virtual reality footage Google has been working on but hasn’t released to the public yet. “I saw stuff that just melted my brain,” Mengerink said Tuesday in his first interview since joining the Google-owned video site. Mengerink won’t go into detail about …

Google has been expanding YouTube to get you to spend more time on the site. Dado Ruvic/Reuters/Corbis Google, reporting its first earnings as the new holding company Alphabet, said it owed its profit and sales success last quarter to having six products with more than a billion users apiece. They are search, the mobile operating system Android, the Web browser …