Yahoo’s board of directors is considering a number of strategic options beyond selling the company, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang said today at a conference in Hong Kong. “The intent going in is not to put ourselves for sale,” Yang said at the AsiaD conference, according to an AllThingsD...

What in the world is IntoNow? Why does Yahoo want this company, which launched 12 weeks ago and has all of seven employees? And why should anybody care? Short answers first: IntoNow makes an iPhone app that enables you to tell your network of friends about the cool TV show, movie, game or commercial...

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...