Yahoo is keen to buy Google's Chrome browser

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If the US Justice Department forces Google to sell its Chrome browser to remedy its search monopoly, Yahoo will be one of the companies in line looking to buy it. (The others include OpenAI and Perplexity.) In the meantime, the legacy search brand is developing a browser prototype. The company believes the browser could boost its search market share. And if it acquires Chrome, it estimates a jump to double digits from its current 3% share, since it believes that around 60% of search queries are done through web browsers, directly from the address bar. Buying the browser also means it cuts development time, which Yahoo Search General Manager Brian Provost believes takes six to nine months to develop its own.

Provost estimates the deal could cost tens of billions of dollars, but he believes that Yahoo's owner, Apollo Global Management, can help it secure funding. As The Verge pointed out, Apollo actually owns a browser brand, but Provost said it isn't an active browser. And you may know this brand, given it was embroiled in its own antitrust case. It's NetScape.

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Yahoo Mail's iPad app comes to M1-powered Mac

Yahoo has updated its Mail app for the iPhone and iPad to bring it to the M1 Mac. It gets features like Easy Unsubscribe, Quick Reply, and Custom Alerts. Easy Unsubscriber makes it easy to opt-out with a click; Quick Reply offers three short AI-powered suggestions depending on the email received; and Custom Alerts brings you notifications for emails you care about.

This update isn't available on Intel Macs, though, just the M1 machines. And the app is still listed as "Designed for iPad" on the Mac App Store listing.

Source: 9to5Mac

Yahoo Messenger has reached its end, officially shuts down on July 17th

Perhaps you’re like us who are hit by nostalgia of losing another one of the pioneers of the instant messaging segment. But with stiff competition coming from all sides and the inability of Yahoo to keep up, it doesn’t surprise us that Yahoo is finally closing the doors on Yahoo Messenger. It will officially shut down next month on July 17^th. It’s been 20 years since Messenger (originally Yahoo! Pager) launched and it offered not just instant messaging but file transfers and chat rooms as well. Desktop versions of the app have been shut down since mid-2016 but now all the remaining apps (those on iOS, Android, and web browser) will stop working, too.

After the shutdown, the apps will stop working and you won’t be able to sign in. If you want to extract your chat history, this option will be available for the next six months. You will need to sign into Yahoo’s downloader request site, verify your identity and then give your email address for where you want your chat log sent to. Yahoo doesn’t have an immediate replacement for Messenger outside out of its new chat service Squirrel, which launched in closed beta this May. Its focus is on group chats and it currently relies on invitations instead of going through your contacts to build the groups so we’re not sure if this is a worthy alternative. You’re rife with choice out there though so it might be high time you try something new.

Source: SlashGear

Got a Yahoo account? Then you’ve been breached

Remember that 2013 Yahoo breach that supposedly affected one billion accounts? Well, it got worse. Yahoo just announced that all its three billion user accounts have been affected by the hack. This hack exposed things like name, email address, hashed passwords, birthdays, phone numbers, and in some cases, “encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers.” What the hackers weren’t able to obtain were the passwords in clear text as well as bank or credit card information linked to Yahoo accounts.

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