Enlarge / The Yahoo Groups home page. Yahoo Groups is shutting down after more than 18 years, and the Verizon-owned company is deleting all content from the site in mid-December. “Yahoo has made the decision to no longer allow users to upload content to the Yahoo Groups site,” the company said in a notice to […]
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Enlarge / A sign outside a Yahoo corporate building in Los Angeles. A former Yahoo software engineer has pleaded guilty to hacking into thousands of users’ accounts in search of sexually explicit images and videos and other types of private data. Reyes Daniel Ruiz on Monday admitted to using his access as a Yahoo engineer
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Many people resort to pornography websites to satisfy their bodily needs. On the contrary, an ex-Yahoo engineer went miles ahead and hacked into real people’s accounts instead. Reyes Daniel Ruiz compromised 6,000 accounts of Yahoo users in order to find sexual videos and images. Yesterday, he pleaded guilty in federal court in San Jose for
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If you owned a Yahoo account between 2012 and 2016, another payday is headed your way, thanks to the data breach that took place between those years. To settle the matter, beyond enhancing their security systems, Yahoo is offering up $117.5 million to those affected. However, Yahoo would likely much rather you opt for the
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In an interview with Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer, top tech investor and Betaworks CEO, John Borthwick said that the information gathering by smart devices from the likes of Google and Amazon is “surveillance.” “From a consumer standpoint, user standpoint, is that these– these [smart] devices are being used for what’s– it’s hard to call
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Understanding how search engines rank websites and applying simple nontechnical SEO strategies will lead to increased traffic from qualified customers. Search engine optimization (SEO) is a technique used to assure that customers searching for a product or service can easily find a company’s website on search engines such as Google. Just as a physical location is
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January saw the announcement of Bing Ads exclusively taking over management for Yahoo and AOL search ads starting in March. Oath had been renamed Verizon Media and Yahoo Gemini had switched to the name “Oath Ad Manager” only recently but Verizon (who agreed to the acquisition of Yahoo Inc. in 2016) are clearly trying to
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Verizon Media is replacing Flurry Monetization and ONE Mobile SDK with a new Verizon Ads SDK. The company says the new SDK has been designed to support “publisher SDK size and extensibility needs,” offering app developers a simplified way to access Verizon Media’s monetization opportunities. Why you should care The new Verizon Ads SDK aims
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Verizon Media (formerly Oath) has rolled out two new features as part of its Moments mobile native ad suite: Touchpoints and Playable ads. The Touchpoints ad units are designed for e-commerce advertisers, offering a shoppable experience for product ads, and the Playable ads — which include an interactive preview of the game without a
Paid search marketing is known in the marketing and advertising industry by many different names (and abbreviations). Search engine marketing (SEM, which can include SEO), pay-per-click (PPC), search engine advertising, sponsored listings… the list goes on. And that’s before you start to involve the names of specific advertising programmes and ad types, such as Google
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