If you can’t be the heavyweight, go for lightweight. That seems to be Yahoo Mail’s strategy for its latest round of updates: more app-like features for its mobile site gets more app-like features and new app targeting Android Go. Yes, people still use Yahoo Mail. It has almost 230 million active users, despite being the …
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Goodbye, Yahoo Messenger. If you’re a frequent user, now would be a good time to relocate because the app will shut down on July 17, according to an update Friday on the Yahoo Messenger help site. Although there isn’t an immediate replacement for Yahoo Messenger, the company suggests Yahoo Squirrel — an invite-only group messaging app currently in beta — as …
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How many messaging apps do you have on your phone right now? It’s probably at least one, if not two or three. Now Yahoo wants to add another. The company is testing a messaging app called Squirrel focused on group messaging. Spotted by Android Police on the Google Play store, the app is currently in invite-only mode. “Organize groups and …
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You’ve probably heard that every single Samsung Galaxy S9 phone will soon include preinstalled apps from its new partner, Oath, whether you like it or no. But we checked with Samsung, and it turns out those initial reports weren’t entirely true. Yes, Samsung has signed a deal with Oath (known for its Yahoo and AOL brands) to install some of Oath’s …
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Facebook wants to make Workplace — a version of the social network designed specifically for the, well, workplace — more of a one-stop shop for employees. On Tuesday, the company announced that Workplace will now let other services create integrations for Workplace. What that means is that businesses using the paid version of Workplace will be able to tap into …
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The iPhone boom times may be officially over. And Apple may have the iPhone X to thank for that. This fiscal year was supposed to be a blowout for Apple. The company redesigned its popular iPhone for the first time in three years and touted the iPhone X as “the future” of mobile. Analysts declared it would drive a “supercycle” that …
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Don’t expect to join a class action lawsuit against Yahoo — or any other site owned by Oath, Verizon’s content division. As CNET first reported on April 13, Yahoo began notifying users that their email would soon be subject to additional scanning for advertising purposes. The updated terms of service also noted changes in the company’s mutual arbitration clause — …
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Oath, the media division of Verizon that runs both AOL and Yahoo, is finally unifying the privacy policy of its two giant legacy Internet brands. That means an updated set of privacy terms and policies for hundreds of millions of users. And in an online world where privacy expectations have been radically reshaped in light of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica mess, it’s …
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Tim Armstrong, the CEO of Verizon’s digital-media unit Oath, suggested that Go90, Verizon’s free mobile video app, may be dismantled. The shows and programs in Go90 will be redistributed inside Oath’s different distribution outlets, like HuffPost and Yahoo Finance, Armstrong said, adding that Go90’s identity is morphing into that of a content engine and library more so than an standalone …
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Just how well the iPhone X performed remains a mystery. Still, one thing’s for sure: Apple sold boatloads of iPhones but not quite enough. The Cupertino, Calif., consumer electronics giant said Thursday that it sold 77.3 million iPhones, down 1 percent from a year ago. Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi had pegged the company to sell around 79 million iPhones in …
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