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Yahoo's "Unlimited" email, isn't. [WSJ]

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Yahoo rejects Microsoft's takeover bid for reals for reals. We are safe from the threat of the creation of the world's largest, crappiest, search engine...for now. [AP]

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scary

Proposed "MicroHoo" Merger Has Privacy Implications

How much should one company know about you? Forbes has an interesting article that examines the privacy implications of a Microsoft/Yahoo! merger. They're not pretty:
Microsoft has been trying to make Google seem like a threat to privacy, when in fact it's both of them," says Jeff Chester, the executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD). "We may now have two companies that will rival the National Security Agency in their ability to compile detailed profiles of users wherever they go online."
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1:31 PM on Tue Feb 5 2008
By Meg Marco
960 views, 6 comments

Latest by dalejo: @chouchou: just remember the date you use. I couldn't get anything out of yahoo when my email got hacked. I picked something at random unfortunately. more »

Yahoo is re-opening talks with Google about a possible business alliance in an effort to rebuff Microsoft's takeover proposal, which Yahoo says undervalues the company at $31 a share. [Reuters]

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Microsoft is interested in buying Yahoo! [Ars Technica]

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billing

Sign Up For Yahoo Voice And Receive A $74.95 Charge From Yahoo Personals

Yahoo Personals surprised technology guru Russell Shaw with a charge for $74.95 when he signed up for Yahoo Voice. Russell had let his subscription to Yahoo Personals lapse last February and ignored Yahoo's repeated entreaties to renew his membership. He assumed his account was cancelled, told his credit card company not to authorize any new charges, and did not inform Yahoo when he lost his credit card last May. More »

8:45 PM on Sun Jan 6 2008
By Carey
5,462 views, 28 comments

cancel the account

Canceling Napster Takes 30 Minutes On The Phone

Eliot Van Buskirk over at Wired found that he was no longer in need of his Rhapsody, Napster and Yahoo! Music subscriptions now that the RIAA is starting to warm up to the idea of DRM-free music. More »

1:11 PM on Mon Dec 31 2007
By Meg Marco
3,449 views, 28 comments

email

How To Reset Your Password If Your Yahoo Account Is Hacked

A friend of a friend's Yahoo account was hacked and now all the guy's personal and professional contacts are getting emails saying that he's stuck in Africa and needs to be wired money immediately. Here's some solutions we found that might help him reset his password.

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11:51 PM on Thu Dec 20 2007
By Ben Popken
8,320 views, 35 comments

settlements

Google, Yahoo! And Microsoft Reach Settlement Over Illegal Internet Gambling

The Department of Justice says that Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft have reached a $31.5 million dollar settlement for promoting illegal gambling, according to Reuters.

The companies were accused of receiving money from online gambling businesses to advertise illegal betting from 1997 through 2007.
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1:53 PM on Thu Dec 20 2007
By Meg Marco
829 views, 15 comments

privacy

Do You Care About Privacy Or Just Unpleasant Surprises?

Seth Godin thinks that for all the talk about privacy, what people really object to is being "surprised."
If your credit card company called you up and said, "we've been looking over your records and we see that you've been having an extramarital affair. We'd like to offer you a free coupon for VD testing..." you'd freak out, and for good reason.
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12:59 PM on Wed Dec 12 2007
By Meg Marco
3,410 views, 30 comments

advertising

Adobe And Yahoo! Placing Ads In PDF Documents

Adobe and Yahoo! are testing a new program that lets publishers place advertisements in PDF documents, reports Reuters. "The Adobe service allows publishers to generate revenue by including text-based ads linked to the content of an Adobe PDF (portable document format) page in a separate side panel." More »

3:20 PM on Thu Nov 29 2007
By Chris Walters
1,339 views, 29 comments

ds-max

4 Typical DS-MAX MLM Scam Job Ads Found On Monster, HotJobs, CareerBuilder And Jobster

Using the names of companies accused of being DS-Max (now known as Innovage) subsidiaries/affiliates on Ripoffreport and a list on DS-Max The Aftermath, I did a search of Monster, Hot Jobs, and other job sites to pick out real ads that are out there and should be avoided. More »

11:49 AM on Tue Jun 19 2007
By Ben Popken
4,948 views, 18 comments

target

LEAKS: Yahoo Photos Closes September 20th

Yahoo Photos will close on September 20th, according to this internal Target newsletter. Users will have until that date to move their online scrapbooks to a partner site, like Flickr, Shutterfly, Kodak Gallery, Snapfish, Photobucket More »

6:08 PM on Mon May 14 2007
By Ben Popken
2,050 views, 6 comments

complaints

AT&T DSL Downgrades Email, That You Pay For, To Include Ads

AT&T DSL subscribers who use their ISP email will now have the pleasure of seeing ads in their email service. That they pay for. Did we say that already? More »

12:00 PM on Fri May 4 2007
By Ben Popken
3,255 views, 33 comments

copycatting

Gee Whiz, The New AOL Beta Looks Familiar

Where have we seen this website before? —MEGHANN MARCO More »
yahoo

Watch Your Mouth On Yahoo! Answers Or They'll Delete Your Email And Website

Reader Andrew has been a Yahoo! email paid subscriber for 8 years. He also has a Yahoo! Small Business account for his website and has a paid Flickr account. He also participates in Yahoo! Answers. Sadly, Andrew said something on Yahoo! Answers that Yahoo! feels violated their TOS. The result? They deleted Andrew's entire account, including his email, Flickr, and website hosting. He was given no warning. Yahoo! says his account was "suspended." Andrew writes:
Now, lets have a quick look at that word - suspended. If a student get suspended from school that usually means they are back within a few days or a week or so. Yahoo!'s definition of suspended means removed permanently. This included all emails I had saved over the last eight years, my pre-paid Yahoo! Small Business Account, my FLICKR account, IM account - the lot. To top it off, and here is the sweet bit, even though I OWN the domain name transformertattoo.com I cannot move it to another hosting service because the contact email address, yup, you guessed it, was my deleted Yahoo! email address. "
Andrew says this is happening to quite a few people who say something untoward on Yahoo! answers (according to Andrew they claim he said something about harming animals, which he denies, but who knows.) Even if Andrew did say something out-of-line, should that affect other services he's paid for? Andrew claims Yahoo! will not reinstate his account or refund his money. Read his letter inside. More »

3:54 PM on Thu Apr 12 2007
By Meg Marco
21,082 views, 55 comments

Latest by n/a: I'm not even a part of "Yahoo Answers" and they deleted my account on 10/1/2007. I had the account for over NINE (9) YEARS. I was not given any notice whatsoever. I found out by being blocked at the login more »

sub-prime lending

Contextual Ad Answers Article's Question About Cause Of Subprime Lending Crisis

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personal finance

Yahoo's New Personal Finance Site

Yahoo launched a new personal finance today site to help you manage your money. More »