Digital payments company Limepay has appointed Willie Pang as its CEO.

Smart receipt provider Slyp has hired Ashley Davies to be its CFO.

GUEST OPINION by George Tsoukas, Gigamon ANZ: Today’s powerful digital applications often span multiple tiers running on multiple on-premises and cloud platforms. This can lead to a fragmented, inconsistent view of data in motion and visibility gaps and blind spots that make it hard to deliver a secure, optimal user experience.

The number of mobile video calling services reached 1.8 billion globally in 2020, rising from 1.2 billion in 2019, according to a new study from Juniper Research.

Video specialist Linius Technologies has appointed Kevin Kyer as executive vice-president of its search division.

The average user trusts big name email providers despite multiple data breaches and in some cases trust, according to a recent survey by VPN provider NordVPN.

Recruitment services company Search Party has appointed Nick Gundry as a non-executive director.

ANALYSIS Reports are emerging that Yahoo!'s claimed 500 million record database breach in 2014 may have been much larger — somewhere between one and three billion — and the company may have deliberately hidden that fact.

Yahoo says it is “aware” that a stolen database was advertised on the dark web, but it would not confirm or deny that the records were real.

Cyber criminals have obtained passwords to Tumblr user email accounts – don’t worry it only affects pre-Yahoo acquisition users.

The threat of ransomware and security breaches means the US Congressional Chamber has been blocked from using software and apps hosted on Google Cloud service Appspot.com.

It has long been accepted that free services, apps, games, and even operating systems like Google’s Android come at a price – you have to watch advertisements specifically tailored for, and mercilessly served, to you.

US based web portal, search, email, and internet services company Yahoo is having a tough time – huge losses, massive asset write-downs, and there are questions about its CEO’s strategy.

Australian start-up Unlockd’s mobile platform is now available to more than 9 million customers in the United States under a deal with Boost Mobile, a Sprint Telecom company.

On Yahoo Mail’s 18th anniversary, it is introducing a new multi-provider, Yahoo Mail app. Now one Yahoo fits all.

Microblogging and social networking site Tumblr staged one of Sydney’s coolest parties last night as part of its chilled launch in Australia.

Yahoo7 has appointed 15-year digital industry veteran Paul Russell as director of technology for Australia and New Zealand.

Yahoo7 is to sell advertising across the Sensis network under a new partnership between the two companies.

ANALYSIS: Yahoo will spin off its US$50 billion stake in Chinese site Alibaba. You may remember Yahoo - it was once the darling of Silicon Valley, but it has become increasingly irrelevant in an Internet dominated by Google and Facebook and other newcomers.

With the rest of November and an entire month of 2014 still to go, and with Australia going through the sorrow of cricket legend Phil Hughes tragically passing on the day Yahoo7’s report was issued, maybe Yahoo7 should wait until sometime in mid or even late December to issue what is otherwise a fascinating report on its annual search trend data.