Is Yahoo the shot in the arm that Verizon needs? That’s a debatable sentiment. In the past few weeks, Yahoo — which Verizon is planning to acquire for $4.8 billion — drew the kind of headlines that make you cringe. It suffered what could be the biggest hack of all time, coughing up the account …

PayPal’s goal to become a bigger part of our payment lives took another step forward Thursday, with the company adding more money-transfer features to its platform. Nearly a year after it purchased money-transfer company Xoom, PayPal on Thursday integrated a handful of Xoom’s functions to its websites, making it easier for PayPal’s 87 million US users to send money or …

Apple may have courage, but that doesn’t mean it will tackle original programming on a Netflix-like scale. Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet software and services, said the original shows Apple is developing today are going to stay limited. “You’re not seeing a huge number of them,” he said. “The real opportunity for us is to make it …

Executives for telecommunications giant AT&T and media conglomerate Time Warner have met in recent weeks for strategic talks that included discussion of a possible megamerger, according to a Bloomberg report Thursday. The talks are described as informal, focusing on building relationships between the companies rather than setting specific terms for a merger, the news outlet reported, citing unidentified people familiar …

Do these cartoon breasts offend you? Apparently, they offended Facebook. Swedish cancer awareness site Cancerfonden published an open letter (translated) to the social media company, asking that Facebook reinstate its awareness video, “Breast School” after the company took it down. Instead of the offending circles, above, which the site used to explain how women should check for worrisome lumps and …

It’s no secret that Twitter is Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s favorite platform, but now he’ll be putting money into his opponent’s pocket each time he clicks Send. Enlarge Image Screenshots by Ry Crist/CNET It’s all thanks to an admittedly clever new “Troll Trump” fund-raising tool from the Hillary Clinton campaign. Supporters pledge to donate a set amount of money …

Several owners of the now-recalled Galaxy Note 7 are accusing Samsung of ignoring their demands that the company pay for property damage caused when their handsets exploded and started fires, according to the UK-based Guardian. One customer, John Barwick of Illinois, said that fire damage in his bedroom totals over $9,000, but that Samsung repeatedly failed to return his calls, …

Things are looking up for Microsoft‘s Surface. The Redmond, Washington-based tech giant reported that sales of its tablets surged 38 percent in the first quarter compared with the same period a year ago. The company credited strong sales of its Surface Book and the Surface Pro 4 with generating $926 million in revenue during the quarter, up from $672 million …

An iPhone 7 is an iPhone 7, right? Well maybe not, said YouTuber Unbox Therapy in a video test of the iPhone 7’s ability to quickly transfer files from a laptop to his phones (video below). In fact, he found the 32GB version of the iPhone 7 to transfer “Star Wars — Episode IV: A New Hope” significantly slower than …

The Mail app didn’t get the overhaul that Messages did with iOS 10, but it still received an update with a few changes that might be tripping you and your inbox up. If you are less than thrilled with Mail after making the move to iOS 10, these two fixes might help. Problem 1: Tiny text When I first updated …