While Yahoo has faced criticism over the past few years for its numerous hacks, its latest controversy comes from within. Last week, the company was caught indulging the outdated practice of scanning Yahoo Mail users’ emails for commercial data to sell to advertisers. Last year, Yahoo found itself swallowed by …

Earlier this morning we learned that email provider, Yahoo, had been accused of secretly scanning the emails of all of its users at the request of the United States government. Using a specialised piece of software, Yahoo is said to have scanned the emails of all users for specific phrases …

Yahoo is an entity that despite having lost its status as a household name perhaps as long as a decade ago, is still a monstrously successful company. At the time of writing it still has total assets worth more than $60 billion and a yearly revenue in excess of $4.6 …

Yahoo are updating their email service to try and counteract a drop in user count and to help counter alternatives from Microsoft and Google. Yahoo are planning to change their email as part of a project called “Minty” which is aimed at increasing the speed of the service outside the …