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An Oracle employee has poked fun at Google Cloud after it emerged that the company had mistakenly deleted the private cloud environment it had supplied to Australian superannuation company UniSuper.

Yahoo! chief executive Marissa Mayer will leave the company after its deal with Verizon is completed, but will be handsomely compensated with a payout of US$23 million.

Search company Yahoo! will change its name to Altaba after the sale of its core assets to Verizon is completed, according to a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Yahoo! chief executive Marissa Mayer has been sued by a former senior executive of the company who has accused her of orchestrating a campaign to purge the organisation of male employees.

Yahoo! searched all its users' emails using a specially built program in order to try and locate specific information demanded by American intelligence officials, according to a Reuters report.

Eight years after Microsoft made an offer of US$44 billion to buy Yahoo!, the company that once was synonymous with Internet search has been sold to Verizon for US$4.83 billion.

US based web portal, search, email, and internet services company Yahoo is having a tough time – huge losses, massive asset write-downs, and there are questions about its CEO’s strategy.

Yahoo has continued its reign as the most popular online site visited from US desktop computers in December, as users increasingly use their smartphones and tablets to browse the Web.

Yahoo’s Chief Operating Officer Henrique de Castro has sensationally quit the company just a year after he was hired, according to filings in the US.

Yahoo Mail went under a full redesign last week, and while there's no doubt it looks good, a host of bugs have plagued the service leaving some users furious.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has revealed she feared being jailed for treason if she refused to comply with NSA data requests, while Mark Zuckerberg said the NSA "blew it."

Yahoo! has continued to add to its ever-growing portfolio of acquisitions, announcing today it has bought image search startup IQ engines.

The rumours were correct. Yahoo will buy blogging site Tumblr for US$1.1 million in cash. The deal was announced on Tumblr founder David Karp’s 26^th birthday.

Yahoo has made some big changes to its Flickr photo sharing service, adding a new interface and a free whole terabyte of storage.

While everybody is busy throwing up their hands in shock and horror over the seemingly draconian 20th century work from the office policy suddenly imposed on the Yahoo! corporation by chief executive Marissa Mayer, some may consider asking the question of whether perhaps she's spot on the money.

The news that Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer has initiated a no teleworking policy at the legendary dot com company has done more than just ruffle a few feathers among working mothers. It has also sent ripples of alarm through the corporate big end of town among the telecommunications community.

The sad story of the once great Internet company Yahoo! just got sadder for some after a leaked internal memo revealed that current CEO Marissa Mayer has ordered all teleworkers back to the office. Ms Mayer,  a former Google executive who took over as Yahoo! CEO in July 2012, took just two weeks off when she had a baby in October.