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Yahoo Names AOL Exec as New Policy Head

Yahoo has named Tekedra Mawakana as the new director of its global public policy and strategy team. She’ll be working global governmental affairs and will head up policy initiatives with industry and government agencies. Mawakana had worked at AOL since 2001 as senior VP of public policy and deputy general counsel.

Former Yahoo Security Head Somaini Lands at Cloud Startup Box

One of three high-profile hires for the IPO-bound startup.
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Marissa Mayer Wants Fewer Yahoo Mobile Apps

Just the ones that matter most.
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That Yahoo Mail Vulnerability? Not Really Fixed.

Well, it’s kinda fixed, but not in way that prevents the same thing from happening again.
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Yahoo Confirms It Has Fixed a Vulnerability in Mail

Change your passwords. Again.
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Yahoo Mail Endures Another Hacking Vulnerability

One more crack in the wall.
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How the FTC Could Address Its Concerns About Google Without a Lawsuit

There’s more than one way to protect consumers, says a former FTC litigator.
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Another Bad Day for Passwords, This Time at Yahoo

The attack against Yahoo that revealed 453,000 email addresses and passwords apparently used a favorite hacker trick, the SQL injection. Also, why were passwords stored in plaintext?
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Mortar Data, Hadoop for the Rest of Us, Gets Seed Funding

A new player in the Hadoop Big Data ecosystem aims to make the software more readily usable by programmers.
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Yext Cleans Up Mess of Business Listings Info

Yext wants to be a one-stop shop for keeping business listings updated across multiple services.
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Google, Private-Equity Firms Mull Bid for Yahoo

Exclusive: Hadoop Companies Multiply as MapR Lands $20M in Funding

Flash Madness Part 3: Pure Storage Comes Out of Stealth

Box Expands Mobile Offerings, Names Yahoo’s Chris Yeh as VP of Platforms

Everyone Loves Hadoop, So Cloudera Makes It Easier to Manage

Alibaba Group CEO Jack Ma on the Alipay Affair, Yahoo and Treating Employees Well

Factual Hires Yahoo's Location Guru and Grabs A Googler

Big-Data Start-Up Cloudera Kicks Hadoop Up a Notch

Seven More Questions for Gil Elbaz, CEO of the Data Mercenary Factual

Cisco to Acquire Inlet Technologies, May Be Looking for More Deals

Google Apps Adds an Anti-Spam Weapon to Its Arsenal

Gawkergate Password Mess Was Two Years in the Making

What Tech Companies Are Spending in Washington

Gawkergate Collateral Damage Now Includes the New York Times