Canaan Partners News

Yahoo Inc. today announced that it has finalized an agreement to purchase two patents from inventor/patent holder Michael Katz of Conshohocken, PA for a purchase price of $7.2 million.

Financial terms of the partnership weren't disclosed. News of the deal first leaked out last month, so it didn't come as a surprise.

Katie Couric's new Yahoo show, Yahoo News with Katie Couric , premieres this Friday at 8 a.m. The new global news anchor even has an official Tumblr blog where viewers are encouraged to ask questions of Couric's first guest, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Naoko Okumoto, a VP at Yahoo in charge of monitoring its key Yahoo Japan business, is leaving the company, according to multiple sources.

There are job openings across the board this week with a limited partner vacancy at state pension fund CalSTRS , buyout-related openings at TPG Capital and Oaktree Capital Management and finally some venture capital job pickings over at Canaan Partners and OpenView Venture Partners .

Yahoo Inc. is deleting the option for users to access its various online services using Facebook Inc. or Google Inc. account logins as the company attempts make its products stand out from competitors and grow idle revenue numbers.

I knew I was going to miss my bike because for the 10 years I have lived in the Mission, I've taken it everywhere.

Yahoo! CAO Aman S. Kothari unloaded 48,589 shares of the company's stock in a transaction dated Friday, February 28th.

If you used a webcam on Yahoo between 2008 and 2012, a British spy agency might have intercepted your images - even those that were sexually explicit.

's stock had its "buy" rating restated by investment analysts at TheStreet in a note issued to investors on Wednesday, Analyst Ratings.Net reports.

Yahoo Inc. has moved top marketing executive Kathy Savitt into a more powerful role as content chief, a promotion that gives Savitt a place at the table as a key architect in steering the Sunnyvale-based company's push into digital media and attempt at rebuilding its image, The Wall Street Journal reported .

Yahoo! Inc. CFO Ken Goldman will participate in a question-and-answer session at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference in San Francisco.

The session is scheduled to begin on Monday, March 3, 2014, at 11:30 a.m. PT / 2:30 p.m. ET.

It also values the group's 450million users at 25 each - even though some pay only $1 a year and many pay nothing at all.

UrbanSitter , an online and mobile service for parents and sitters to connect through people they know, today announces it has closed $15 million in Series B funding.