Before smartphones — much less smartphone apps — were a thing, before Facebook and MySpace battled it out for which would become the highlander of social networks, before Snapchat or Twitter or Skype, ...

Yahoo has agreed to shut down Internet chat rooms designed to promote sex between adults and children. The agreement with the attorneys general of New York and Nebraska is the first to institute ...

— The Web flourished as a free-wheeling medium that gave any interest an audience. But as big business has tried to capitalize on those audiences, advertisers increasingly find their brands popping up ...

Yahoo Inc. has shut some Internet chat rooms after companies including PepsiCo Inc. and Georgia-Pacific Corp. pulled advertising, citing concerns that the sites were being used by adults to lure young ...

Yahoo just debuted a new integrated chat feature for Yahoo Mail Beta here at the Web 2.0 Summit. The demonstration was led by Ethan Diamond, director of product management, and Brad Garlinghouse, a ...

Yahoo Mail and Messenger will power Nokia’s mobile mail and chat services starting later this year, the companies said during a press conference on Monday. It’s the latest change to Nokia’s Ovi ...

NEW YORK – Yahoo Inc. said Wednesday it will bar chat rooms that promote sex between minors and adults and restrict all chat rooms to users 18 and older. The Internet portal also will prescreen the ...

Yahoo may be in the middle of selling itself but it isn’t giving up on trying to stay relevant to Internet users. The company has launched its first three chat bots on Kik Messenger, a chat app that’s ...

Yahoo lets you access Yahoo Messenger inside your browser-based Yahoo Mail inbox using the same Yahoo ID. Most of the basic chat functions built in to the stand-alone version of Yahoo Messenger are ...

SAN FRANCISCO --Family advocacy groups lauded Yahoo on Thursday for closing its chat rooms to clean up areas that allegedly were used to prey on children. Over the past month, pressure has been ...

Yahoo has introduced a new version of its popular Yahoo Messenger instant messaging service that eliminates the need to download and install software. Still in the beta phase, the new “Yahoo Messenger ...

The company issues patches for its Yahoo Instant Messenger and Yahoo Chat clients in an effort to fix a buffer overflow vulnerability discovered in the software. Department Editor Evan Hansen runs the ...