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Users of Yahoo products clicked about 3% more search advertisements in Q2 than they had in the year-earlier quarter, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company said this month.

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A Shire logo sits on a sign outside office buildings at Shire Plc's site in Chineham, U.K., on Friday, June 27, 2014.

Yahoo said Monday it has agreed to buy mobile analytics and ad platform company Flurry, and the deal is worth "hundreds of millions," AllThingsDigital's Kara Swisher reports, citing unnamed sources.

Yahoo has made yet another acquisition to show the industry it's serious about mobile, this time picking up the mobile application analytics specialist Flurry.

It's not a very difficult concept to grasp for trading: sell winners when the market is overvaluing their fundamentals.

From the director of "The Devil Wears Prada," "One Chance" is the remarkable and inspirational true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night.

Yahoo's turnaround is significantly behind schedule, as Yahoo struggles to turn increased traffic and users into meaningful revenue streams.

What do private equity executives do when their 27-year old firm is misunderstood? If the firm is Canaan Partners, you let it go to the dogs.

Yahoo! has received an average recommendation of "Buy" from the thirty-nine brokerages that are currently covering the company, American Banking News.com reports .

Yahoo has been distracting shareholders and analysts ever since Marissa Mayer took office with hyper-hyped acquisitions.

DICOM Grid, makers of the most comprehensive cloud-based platform for medical image management and exchange, today announced a $6 million inside funding round backed by Canaan Partners, CHL Medical Partners, Mayo Clinic and several individual investors.

Three years ago, Yahoo was in the middle of the biggest crisis the company ever had: three CEOs were appointed and replaced in a very short time; its stock price hit rock bottom, and takeover attempts were published in every newspaper and website.

's stock had its "buy" rating reaffirmed by investment analysts at Canaccord Genuity in a note issued to investors on Thursday.

With worst case now more than priced into the stock, YHOO looks a very asymmetric risk/reward on the long side.

Alibaba founder Jack Ma is now linked to a number of corporate deals, which appear to involve conflicts of interest with future Alibaba shareholders.

Wrapping up this Wednesday of trading, the Dow traded up 0.44 percent to 17,135.90 while the NASDAQ jumped 0.46 percent to 4,436.65.

Maria Zhang, the Yahoo engineering executive sued for sexual harassment by one of her female employees, is striking back.

On CNBC , experts on Squawk on the Street put Yahoo! Inc. 's weak second quarter into perspective and offered free advice on what the company's management needs to do now that performance figures are not improving as fast as expected.

Those Sunnyvale salad days of December 1999, a single month in which Silicon Valley icon Yahoo saw its equity price astonishingly double , now seem but a distant dream.