This week, we're talking about a new flagship phone from LG, Xiaomi's bright future, and the uphill for Sprint and T-Mobile.
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It's not only Verizon-locked Galaxy S9 and S9+ variants that will be getting a number of apps owned by Big Red subsidiary Oath pre-installed. Soon enough, the bloatware partnership is set to expand around the world.
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Big Red pockets another big streaming and media deal with a major US sports league after an in-market games deal with the NFL.
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Customers of any carrier in the United States will be able to access local matches on the Yahoo Sports, go90 or NFL Mobile apps.
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The Chinese smartphone-maker has billions of dollars coming its way, but it's been chewing gristle in its oversized US operations in the meantime.
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The telecom is still valuing the deal at nearly $4.5 billion for a user base of about 1 billion. Digital content and ad-feeding prospects outweigh scandals.
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Yahoo! won’t be Yahoo! as we know it anymore, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchanges Commission.
As we know, Verizon is in the process of purchasing the former search giant and is trying to fold the company into its operations. That means several big changes that need disclosure, including the replacement of the board of directors and the loss of controversial CEO Marissa Meyer’s position.
Yahoo!’s name will also officially be changed to Altaba, the company of which will represent what Verizon did not pick up: 15 percent ownership in Chinese e-marketplace site Alibaba and a 35.5 percent in separate entity Yahoo! Japan.
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The state-caused splatter of more than 500 million Yahoo account credentials and associated personal information was caught by several of the company’s employees when it happened in 2014. The company only publicly disclosed in September that the breach happened after completing an investigation the previous month to confirm the scope of the attack.
Yahoo disclosed this to the Securities and Exchange Commission today in a quarterly report. It initially tied the discovery of the 2014 breach back to a 2012 breach that exposed 200 million Yahoo account names and passwords.
The initial disclosure of the later hack happened a month after Verizon agreed to purchase Yahoo for $4.8 billion. It’s worth noting that the telco, considering this as a “material event” where it would have been able to negotiate down the asking price for the search company, “may seek to terminate the Stock Purchase Agreement or renegotiate the terms of the Sale transaction on that basis,” Yahoo admits. Verizon declined comment while Yahoo declined further comment beyond the filing.
Yahoo is also being investigated for being directed by the FBI to scan emails for signatures from terrorist organizations.
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America’s number one wireless communications service provider is definitely feeling the squeeze of a silver medalist that continues to breathe down its neck, a most-improved third-placed player, and a slowly recovering fourth.But it will still take years to find out if Verizon’s new advertising strategy and
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A bipartisan group of congress members have written to Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. They want to know what went on with the FBI’s request to Yahoo to scan its emails for a signature supposedly used by a terrorist organization.Reps. Justin Amash (R – MI) and Ted W. Lieu (D – CA) and 46 others are asking for clarification on what legal authorities were used between the Department of Justice ...
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If you’re worried about Yahoo not being able to keep your passwords safe from malicious actors or complying with the government to let it read over your emails and half a million other people’s to look for terrorist signatures, well, you can definitely skedaddle off to Gmail or Outlook or Mail.ru… oh, sorry about that.But if your Yahoo account is a valuable business line, family and friends line ...
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“It’s not a question of if you’re going to get hacked – it’s when you’re going to get hacked.” With that surprisingly candid statement meant to underplay the “material impact” of the recently uncovered Yahoo cyber-attack on a faltering giant Verizon intends to revive… somehow, Big Red’s CEO effectively rubbished
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Yahoo has certainly seen way better days.Last week, it has had its 500 million of its users email account credentials exposed. This week, it was revealed that Yahoo was riling through emails at the classified request of the National Security Agency or FBI, looking for signatures correlated to terrorist communications.Add to that the company’s CEO Marissa Meyer leaving a bad taste of management with many in the ...
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Yahoo has announced that “a state-sponsored actor” has gotten hold of a copy of US account details including password hashes, — machine-scrambled passwords that are sent and exclusively accepted by receiving servers — unencrypted and encrypted security questions and answers and vital specs like names, email addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth. The data dates back to late 2014.As of this point, it seems that no unhashed passwords were obtained as well as payment or bank account information. Users are being notified and urged to be vigilant for suspicious ...
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Juan’s review of the Alcatel Idol 4S is LIVE, but what did Juan get wrong in his review? Apple sells it’s billionth phone while sales decline. Blackberry delivers the “world’s most secure Android smartphone”, but can we trust that claim in the light of recent encryption issues? Those stories, and we’ll tackle your viewer emails! Make sure you’re charged and ready for episode 211 of the Pocketnow Weekly!Watch the live video broadcast at 2:00pm Eastern on July 28th (click
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