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DealBook: Yahoo Said to Plan Board Shake-Up, Adding Levchin

Source: International Herald Tribune, Dec 13 2012, 9:57am CST

Steve Marcus/ReutersDaniel S. Loeb, the hedge fund manager of Third Point. Yahoo is poised to announce changes to its board, including the addition of Max Levchin, a former senior executive at PayPal, people briefed on t ...

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Yahoo follows Facebook and Microsoft in publishing US govt sought 'snoop data'

Source: Sify  |   Jun 19 2013, 1:55am CDT

Internet corporation Yahoo has followed the league of technological companies in publishing reports about 'snoop data' requests made by the US government. According to the Guardian, Yahoo has revealed that it had received 12,000-13,000 requests, i ...

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Google asks to release more information on NSA questions

Source: Business Journal of Phoenix  |   Jun 18 2013, 11:29pm CDT

Google is challenging its inability to release information about requests from the National Security Agency regarding some users’ activity. CBS News reported the Internet and computer giant has asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, wh ...

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Yahoo! says it had 13,000 data requests

Source: The Age  |   Jun 18 2013, 6:16pm CDT

Yahoo! received up to 13,000 government requests for data. Photo: Reuters Yahoo! has received up to 13,000 requests for information from US law enforcement agencies in the last six months, the company said in a letter to ...

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Biz Break: Silicon Valley's NSA Prism response heats up with Google petition, Yahoo disclosure

Source: Contra Costa Times  |   Jun 18 2013, 5:57pm CDT

Guardian and the Washington Post; the reports directly followed revelations about the NSA's Prism program that were leaked by former security contractor Edward Snowden. Tech companies continued Tuesday their scrambled reaction to a ...

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Internet Brands Get Chance to Clear Name with Data Requests, but FISA Still Locked Down

Source: Brand Channel  |   Jun 18 2013, 5:35pm CDT

In the wake of the PRISM scandal, brands are continuing to jockey for their place among the most transparent as the government slowly concedes to releasing more surveillance data collected through the top-secret NSA program, which was made public by w ...

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Why the Analysts Are Right on Their $1000 Price Target

Source: Motley Fool  |   Jun 18 2013, 5:31pm CDT

Tedra is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited. Whether you rely on analysts’ recommendations on how to play a stock or you take analysts’ thought ...

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Google Challenges Secret Court's Gag Orders

Source: Mashable  |   Jun 18 2013, 4:42pm CDT

In its latest push against secrecy, Google has asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to ease its gag orders and allow the company to publish more data about the requests it receives from the cou ...

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Yahoo discloses number of US govt data requests

Source: KMOV  |   Jun 18 2013, 4:02pm CDT

SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) -- Yahoo is the latest company to disclose how many requests for user data it has received from U.S. government agencies, putting the number between 12,000 and 13,000 in the six months that ended on May 31 ...

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Yahoo discloses how much government data requests it gets

Source: Hartford Courant  |   Jun 18 2013, 4:02pm CDT

Chief Executive Marissa Mayer said Yahoo received between 12,000 and 13,000 government requests between December 2012 and the end of May. The bulk of these requests were for criminal investigations, including homicides and kidnappings ...

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Yahoo Jumps on Disclosure Bandwagon, Pledges More Transparency

Source: Ecoustics  |   Jun 18 2013, 3:51pm CDT

Yahoo this week joined Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook in revealing the number of user data requests it has received from law enforcement agencies. The Internet firm received between 12,000 and 13,000 requests for user information between D ...

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