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• Yahoo! ditches digital newsstand for iPads

  By AAP | 28 May, 2012 08:59

  Yahoo! has dumped its fledgling digital newsstand for iPads, as it begins a product purge intended to make the floundering internet pioneer more nimble.

• Yahoo Axis may be game changer for search and the troubled company

  By Sharon Gaudin | 24 May, 2012 20:08

  With Axis, Yahoo is trying to change the search game, while also trying to change its image as a troubled company.

• Yahoo leaks private key, allows anyone to build Yahoo-signed Chrome extensions

  By Lucian Constantin | 24 May, 2012 16:41

  Yahoo was forced to release a new version of its Axis extension for Google Chrome after the original one contained a private key that allowed anyone to digitally sign extensions in Yahoo's name.

• Yahoo launches stand-alone mobile search app

  By Cameron Scott | 24 May, 2012 00:01

  Yahoo beefed up its search offerings on Wednesday when it launched Axis, an HTML5-based browser app that delivers search results as page previews rather than as links.

• Microsoft beats data-sorting record with new approach

  By Joab Jackson | 23 May, 2012 04:56

  Besting a record set by Yahoo in 2009, the research arm of Microsoft have deployed a new technique for quickly sorting large amounts of data, called Flat Datacenter Storage (FDS).

• Yahoo's Genome highlights hosted big data analytics trend

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 21 May, 2012 20:11

  Yahoo has joined a growing list of companies offering big data analytics as a service with its Genome offering this week.

• Yahoo agrees to sell back partial stake to Alibaba

  By Michael Kan and Chris Kanaracus | 21 May, 2012 14:34

  Yahoo has agreed to sell off about half of its stake in Alibaba Group back to the Chinese e-commerce giant as part of a US$7.1 billion deal, the two companies jointly announced on Monday.

• Yahoo agrees to sell back partial stake to Alibaba

  By Michael Kan | 21 May, 2012 13:36

  Yahoo has agreed to sell off about half of its stake in Alibaba Group back to the Chinese e-commerce giant as part of a US$7.1 billion deal, the two companies jointly announced on Monday.

• Yahoo launches big data analytics tool for online advertisers

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 15 May, 2012 06:09

  Yahoo today launched a new tool for online advertisers designed to take advantage of the company's extensive experience with big data analytics.

• WSJ: Thompson told Yahoo board he has cancer

  By Nancy Weil | 15 May, 2012 00:07

  Scott Thompson told the Yahoo board before he was ousted as CEO over the weekend that he has thyroid cancer, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

  Thompson revealed the diagnosis as evidence arose that seemed to contradict his story about why he was not responsible for a degree listed on his resume that he does not have, the newspaper reported, citing anonymous sources familiar with the situation.

  The cancer diagnosis came while Thompson's academic record was under scrutiny by a Yahoo board committee appointed to investigate the matter. Thompson did not want his illness to be publicly disclosed, a source told the Journal, and he has begun treatment for the disease.

  Thompson, who had been under increasing pressure to step down because of the resume situation, decided to resign in part because of the cancer diagnosis, one source told the newspaper. His resume listed an accounting and computer science degree from Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts, but his degree was in accounting only, it was discovered.

  Thompson blamed the error on a head-hunting firm that had been involved when he was named president of eBay's PayPal division, but the firm, Heidrick and Struggles, publicly discounted that claim, saying that it could prove it was false.

  Yahoo announced Sunday that Thompson had left the company and that Ross Levinsohn, who had been in charge of the company's media websites, would step in as interim CEO while the board searches for a replacement. Fred Amoroso was also named chairman of the board, replacing non-executive Chairman Roy Bostock. The board also announced it had settled a proxy fight by activist shareholder Daniel Loeb, who leads the Third Point investment fund, which owns about 5.8 percent of Yahoo. Loeb brought to light the discrepancy in Thompson's academic record, which played a central role in plunging the company into the latest of what has been a long series of controversies and missteps by Yahoo management.

  Soon after Yahoo announced that Thompson had left the company -- it did not call his departure a "resignation" -- Kara Swisher, the reporter who broke the news that Thompson was out as CEO on the All Things D blog Sunday, posted Levinsohn's first memo to employees in which he sought to offer encouragement.

• Scott Thompson out as Yahoo CEO

  By Nancy Weil | 14 May, 2012 05:54

  Embattled Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has left the company, Yahoo has announced, after more than a week of controversy over questions about embellishments to his resume.

• Thompson reportedly out as Yahoo CEO

  By Ken Mingis | 14 May, 2012 03:05

  Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, who's been under fire amid questions about whether he padded his resume, plans to step down from his job, according to a report today by All Things D.

• C keeps its lead over Java, but index's accuracy is questioned

  By Paul Krill | 11 May, 2012 03:25

  The C language, which displaced Java as the most popular language in the Tiobe Programming Community monthly assessment in April, has maintained its number 1 spot in the May report released this week. But a high-profile member of the PHP community is questioning the accuracy of the index itself.

• Yahoo board reportedly investigating CEO hiring process

  By Cameron Scott | 09 May, 2012 02:57

  A panel of Yahoo board members has begun investigating the hiring of CEO Scott Thompson in the wake of revelations that his resume's listing of computer science as a second undergraduate major was false, according to the Wall Street Journal.

• Facebook kicks off IPO roadshow in NYC

  By Sharon Gaudin | 08 May, 2012 05:39

  Facebook on Monday launched its IPO roadshow in New York City with CEO Mark Zuckerberg turning out to pitch the company's upcoming stock to potential investors.