Yahoo has agreed to shut down Internet chat rooms designed to promote sex between adults and children. The agreement with the attorneys general of New York and Nebraska is the first to institute ...

Yahoo has introduced a new version of its popular Yahoo Messenger instant messaging service that eliminates the need to download and install software. Still in the beta phase, the new “Yahoo Messenger ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo, the most-used Internet site, has shut down all its user-created chat rooms amid concerns that adults were using the sites to try to have sex with minors. The giant Internet ...

Yahoo has shut down dozens of Internet chat rooms after questions were raised about whether the sites were being used by adults to lure minors into sexual encounters. The portal also removed a feature ...

The company issues patches for its Yahoo Instant Messenger and Yahoo Chat clients in an effort to fix a buffer overflow vulnerability discovered in the software. Department Editor Evan Hansen runs the ...

Yahoo Mail and Messenger will power Nokia’s mobile mail and chat services starting later this year, the companies said during a press conference on Monday. It’s the latest change to Nokia’s Ovi ...

Yahoo has closed hundreds of chat rooms recently in a bid to protect children from sexually explicit content. The site closed the user-created rooms, several of which were geared toward pedophilia, ...

Consumers who love to chat will have more people to talk to now that Yahoo and Microsoft have bridged their instant messaging services. On Thursday, the companies began limited public beta testing of ...

If you're old enough to remember a world without smartphones, you've probably heard about Yahoo! Messenger (or Yahoo! the search engine), even if you've never used it. The instant messaging client was ...

If you love the NFL and you have the Yahoo Sports app, listen up! There's a feature in the app that lets you chat with fellow fans of your favorite football team, as well as Yahoo Sports experts.