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 ...

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 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 ...

Just nine months after launch, video chat broadcasting app OnTheAir has been acquired by Yahoo for an undisclosed sum. All five team members are coming along to work on the mobile team at Yahoo under ...

You have loads of group chat apps to choose from if you want to keep in touch with friends and family, but Yahoo's new entry promises a more organized experience than most. The company has launched a ...

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 ...

Yahoo has shut down dozens of Internet chat rooms after questions were raised about whether the sites were being used by adults to lure minors into sexual encounters. The portal also removed a feature ...

Yahoo, which is now part of Verizon's larger Oath company, has been struggling to remain relevant in Google's and Apple's world. A Yahoo! email address is now both a source of ridicule as well as ...

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 ...

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 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 ...