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Shares of Yahoo! was the recipient of unusually large options trading on Tuesday.

For its part, QuikIO has a farewell note up on its web site , thanking its users and saying the service will be shut down at the end of the year.

The following are the M&A deals, rumors and chatter circulating on Wall Street for Friday December 6 through Sunday December 8. 2013: The Deal : Live streaming concert platform View EVNTLIVE, announced on its website Friday , it had been acquire by Yahoo .

Yahoo! CAO Aman Kothari unloaded 14,346 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, December 3rd.

Tumblr is where the Internet's cool kids hang out. That's why Yahoo paid $1.1 billion to buy the blogging site in one of this year's most buzzed-about deals.

Trade-Alert data -- as traders paid additional premium for these in-the-money contracts to bet on Yahoo! staying north of the respective strike prices through March options expiration.

Yahoo has acquired SkyPhrase, a natural language processing company that, like Siri and Google Now, makes it easier for computers to better understand and act on human language.

Facebook is not the only one. Twitter has been eyeing up an acquisition of Bangalore-based Frrole, a big data startup that sifts through half a billion Twitter posts every month to offer insights about users.

They were both once the darlings of the tech boom of the late 1990s. America Online was going to connect the world to the Internet and Yahoo! was going to help the world connect and find everything they were looking for on the Internet.

Yahoo! Inc. CFO Ken Goldman will participate in a question-and-answer session at the Credit Suisse Technology Conference in Scottsdale.

Katie Couric plans to anchor a news program for Yahoo to attract more viewers to the Internet.

's stock had its "positive" rating reiterated by research analysts at TheStreet in a report released on Monday, Analyst RN reports.

Reports say Katie Couric is negotiating a deal to leave ABC and move online, joining Yahoo to create news programming.

Yahoo! today announced the pricing of $1.25 billion aggregate principal amount of its 0.00% convertible senior notes due 2018 .

Yahoo! Inc. has gathered its share of headlines over the last few days, recognizing the changes and transformations that the company has undergone in the year since former Google Inc executive Marissa Mayer took over as CEO.

Shares of Yahoo! were trading higher by more than three percent on Wednesday morning following the news announcement of the company's share buyback plan.

Apple has added some new apps to its Apple TV, including channels for Yahoo Screen and for PBS, according to a report from Apple Insider .

Yahoo also intends to grant to the initial purchasers of the notes the right to purchase up to an additional $150.0 million aggregate principal amount of notes, exercisable within a 30-day period, solely to cover over-allotments.

Yahoo is expanding its efforts to protect its users' online activities from prying eyes by encrypting all the communications and other information flowing into the Internet company's data centers around the world.

Over the years, Yahoo has amassed a huge collection of random domain names. Thanks to its penchant for acquisitions , its has more than 200 domain names just sitting around--ranging from the expected to the puzzling .