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Yahoo News has recently unveiled a significant update to its news app, incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance the user experience. This revamp comes after Yahoo’s acquisition of Artifact, an AI-powered news app founded by Instagram’s…
Many investors are buying Bitcoin after the cryptocurrency’s price fell to US$20,000, its lowest level since December 2020. Thanh Binh of HCMC says he turned off notifications on his crypto trading app after buying it at $38,000 and losing over VND40 million…
Yahoo! Hong Kong is to close its commercial operations, including Yahoo! Auctions, Yahoo! Store, and Yahoo! Group Buy. The company posted a message in Chinese on its website yesterday, announcing the move. Yahoo! Hong Kong said the decision reflected a…
Yahoo is desperately trying to become relevant once again. We’re not sure how many people still own a Yahoo email account, but it looks like the company has just unveiled a brand new logo and a new Yahoo Mail app. The new app is available for Android and iOS…
Yahoo Japan reportedly has plans to buy the owner of Zozotown, the country’s largest online fashion retailer, before expanding the business to take on e-commerce heavyweights Rakuten and Amazon. According to Nikkei, Yahoo Japan wants to buy a majority of the…
Verizon Media has announced an aggressive expansion program for Hong Kong for the next 180 days and the year ahead, including the expansion of its Yahoo Studio in the market. The studio will be equipped with audio-visual production equipment for creating HD…
Yahoo Japan Corp. is considering entry into the virtual currency exchange business, according to sources. Via a subsidiary, the company is planning to buy a stake in bitARG Exchange Tokyo, a Tokyo-based exchange operator registered with the Financial Services…
Aeon and Yahoo Japan have not had tremendous success with their own e-commerce ventures, according to the report. Softbank’s IT prowess is seen as key to enabling Aeon to make the most of its brick-and-mortar assets in a retail sector quickly evolving as…
Yahoo’s chief executive Marissa Mayer resigned as Verizon finalized the $4.48 billion deal. Internet pioneer Yahoo ended its two-decade run as an independent company on Tuesday, completing the sale of its core online assets to telecom giant Verizon. Yahoo’s…
Online retail giant Amazon has revealed Germany was its biggest market outside the U.S. in 2016. However, Japan, coming in second for total country sales, experienced the most percentage growth last year, up double-digits on the back of heavy investment in…
Yahoo Japan has selected Infinera Cloud Xpress to interconnect its data centers in Osaka. The Cloud Xpress enables Yahoo Japan to interconnect data centers with hyper-scale density, operational simplicity and low power consumption. Working closely with…
Chinese internet giant Alibaba has been discussing the acquisition of Indian online marketplace ShopClues, which is valued at more than US$1 billion. Alibaba wants to merge the marketplace of Paytm, in which it has a stake, with larger rival ShopClues,…
Yahoo Hong Kong announced in January the official opening of the Yahoo Store, its key project for e-commerce in 2016. Within the year, the tech firm said it expects to feature 500 stores offering as many as 100,000 products. As it is today, Hong Kong’s online…
Didi Kuaidi has appointed Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang as a senior adviser to the ride-hailing app firm as it battles Uber Technologies for market share in China. Mr Yang, an independent director of Alibaba Group which backs Didi Kuaidi, will also be an…
Yahoo Hong Kong has launched its Yahoo Hong Kong-Taiwan cross-border eCommerce platform today. In the first stage, more than 100 Taiwanese brands accredited with the Made in Taiwan Smile Logo will enter the Hong Kong market – in categories ranging from food…
Ecommerce titan Alibaba is forming a RMB 6 billion (US$970 million) three way partnership firm to concentrate on web-connected on-demand providers, resembling meals supply. The JV, referred to as Koubei, is a partnership with its affiliate firm Ant Monetary,…
