The U.S. Justice Department has abruptly abandoned what had become a high-profile court fight to read Yahoo users’ e-mail messages without obtaining a search warrant first. In a two-page brief filed Friday, the Obama administration withdrew its request for warrantless access to the complete contents...

Bing will become a better search engine when Microsoft takes over Yahoo search, and better able to compete with search giant Google, the U.S. Department of Justice said in its decision supporting the deal. The reasoning is simple: By handling the back end of all Yahoo searches, Microsoft will gain access to...

YAHOO has closed GeoCities, a free web hosting service that it bought for more than $US3 billion ($3.25 billion) at the height of the dot-com boom. “We have enjoyed hosting websites created by Yahoo users all over the world, and we’re proud of the community you’ve built,” the...

Yahoo today launched what some are calling a significant overhaul to its home page. Yahoo says the new home page is designed to help you stay on top of what is going on in your world, and on the rest of the planet. What the search company has really done, however, is tweaked its old design and added some...

YAHOO board member Carl Icahn has publicly supported a search deal with Microsoft, which could be very lucrative for Yahoo. Mr Icahn declined to comment on the state of any negotiations between Yahoo and Microsoft. He had tried to broker a partnership between the two companies last year, when talks on...