On April 1, 2004, Google launched a limited public test of its web-based Gmail. A lot of people thought it was an elaborate April Fool's Day joke, but it turned out to change emails forever.
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Yahoo has joined the list of tech companies eliminating thousands of employees for strategic reasons. In an interview, Yahoo executives inform that the company is eliminating 1600 employees.
A new dot release of Firefox Quantum is now rolling out to iron out a problem with Windows 10 Parental Controls impacting file downloads in addition to a usability issue affecting Yahoo Mail.
Yahoo is trying to increase the appeal of its Mail service by creating a lightweight version of its app optimized for Android Go as well as a new web app that's faster and easier to use.
Yahoo Mail app users on Windows 10 have begun receiving notifications, informing them that the app "will stop working after May 22", and directing them to check their email "in any web browser".
User account details for millions of email accounts from popular services have been leaked. High-profile services such as Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and Mail.ru are affected.
Yahoo is apparently starting to prohibit some users from accessing its mail service if a browser has an ad-blocker installed. The company says that this is part of a test, affecting only a few users.
A new system called "on demand passwords" is being rolled out courtesy of Yahoo, which enables users to receive a password if, and when they need it, improving security and making logging in easier.
Microsoft has announced that it has now added a way to import email from IMAP providers such as Yahoo Mail into Outlook.com accounts via a simple user interface.
After yesterday's brief outage that hit Google services, Yahoo took to Twitter to mock its rival, apparently forgetting the massive outage that crippled its own email service for four days last month.
Yahoo, keeping its promises, has announced this week that it is now finally encrypting all emails, joining Google's Gmail and Microsoft's Outlook.com which have provided such services for some time.
Yahoo says that it is still trying to fix an issue in its Yahoo Mail service that has kept some users from accessing their account since early Monday evening, due to a hardware issue.
In a leaked and eccentric internal email sent to Yahoo employees, the company slams Microsoft Outlook and urges workers to switch to Yahoo Mail, which only 25 percent have done since its revamp.
Yahoo! is rolling out a new desktop design for its email service, which includes a way to view groups of emails as a conversation and more. Yahoo! is also launching Yahoo! Ad Free Mail for $49 a year.
Yahoo has announced it will be shutting down the older versions of its Yahoo Mail website the week of June 3rd and will be closing a number of other services on April 30th.
Yahoo has released a major new update of its Yahoo Mail app for Windows 8, adding in a number of new features such as folder management support, a way to search inside the app and more.
Microsoft has posted a chart that it says shows how the features in its Outlook.com email service offers more than Yahoo Mail or Gmail. Microsoft has also released a new intro Outlook.com video.
Yahoo has announced a revamp of its popular online email service, which includes a newly released Windows 8 app as well as a new iPhone/iPod Touch app and a revamped Android app.
Aol has launched a new web email service called Alto that's designed to work with Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Aol Mail and .Mac, but the press release make no mention of Hotmail or Outlook.com from Microsoft.
Yahoo admits that a number of its Yahoo Mail and Messenger users cannot log into the service or are experiencing performance issues. No reason was given for the problems.
Aol has launched a major redesign of its web-based Aol Mail service as it seeks to keep its remaining users from leaving for Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail and other services.
Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, AOL and other companies are teaming up to launch DMARC.org, a technical working group that's developing new email standards designed to combat threats such as phishing.
A lawsuit filed against both Microsoft and Yahoo by a bulk emailing company has now been dismissed by a federal judge. Holomaxx claimed anti-spam features stopped it from offering its "services".
Earlier this week, Google announced that hundreds of its GMail accounts were affected by an attack designed to forward the account's emails to other accounts. Google claims that the attacks originated from China and while...
For a while now, Yahoo have been living in the past. Their mail service has been outdone by the likes of Google and Microsoft with both competitors having rolled out new designs. For Yahoo, they’ve...
According to ComScore, a marketing research company, Gmail is now the third largest email provider in the United States. InformationWeek broke down the numbers, revealing last year Gmail grew a remarkable 46 percent, from 25.3...
