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• Mozilla tells Google, it's not you (anymore), it's Yahoo

  Mozilla on Wednesday announced that it had not renewed its lucrative contract with Google, but instead will use Yahoo as Firefox's default search engine in the U.S.

• Yahoo dethrones Google as default Firefox search tool

  Mozilla has picked Yahoo to be the default search engine for its Firefox browser in the U.S., deposing Google in a new five-year partnership announced on Wednesday.

• Online video moguls team up to set standards, meet growing demand

  Some of the most powerful companies in video networks and delivery plan to define an open architecture for streaming video as part of a new alliance that includes Cisco Systems, Comcast, Ustream and Yahoo, but not Netflix or YouTube.

• Yahoo acquires video ad platform BrightRoll for $640 million

  Yahoo is acquiring the video advertising platform BrightRoll for $640 million, in a move that could help to offset declines in its traditional display ad business.

• As Firefox turns 10, Mozilla trumpets privacy

  Mozilla today pulled out the PR stops to trumpet the 10th anniversary of Firefox, and in celebration released an interim build of Firefox 33 that includes a new privacy tool and access to the DuckDuckGo search engine.

• Facebook gets 650 government requests for user data

  Facebook received 650 requests from the Australian government for user data in the first half of 2014, up slightly from the 640 requests made in the last six months of 2013.
  

• Startup promises to secure data centers, clouds workload by workload

  Illumio, a well-funded startup with an impressive list of customers, is wheeling out a data-center/cloud security platform that imposes individual security policies on every workload.

• iOS 8 app crash rate falls 25 per cent since release

  In the six weeks since its release, iOS 8's app crash rate has declined more than 25 per cent as app developers have adjusted to new APIs and issued updates, an app performance management developer said today.

• Bing lets you dig behind the smiley face with emoji search

  Bing now supports searches with emoji, meaning you can insert or paste a range of emoji icons like hearts, smiley faces, food graphics, or any combination thereof, for some interesting, though not always useful, results.

• Facebook and Yahoo prevent use of recycled email addresses to hijack accounts

  Facebook and Yahoo have developed a mechanism to prevent the owners of recycled email addresses from hijacking accounts that were registered on other sites using those addresses in the past.

• Massive malvertising campaign on Yahoo, AOL and other sites delivers ransomware

  Malicious advertisements made their way last week to almost two dozen popular websites and used browser-based exploits to infect computers with CryptoWall, a nasty file-encrypting ransomware program.

• Yahoo squeezes out some growth

  Yahoo reported a 1 percent sales increase on Tuesday, a marked shift after multiple quarters of decline, though results in its critical ad business were mixed.

• Apple's iCloud targeted in man-in-the-middle attack in China

  Following the iPhone 6 launch in China, Apple's iCloud service began facing a "man-in-the-middle" style attack in the country, in an apparent attempt to steal username and password information, according to an anti-censorship watchdog group.

• Social Sites Gaining Market Share Faster Than Search Engines

  Google remains the dominant source of Web-traffic referrals, with more than 25 percent of all website visits coming from the search engine, according to Adobe's third-quarter 2014 digital advertising report. The company's share of search spend dipped 1 percent year-over-year to 70 percent overall.

• Yahoo says attackers looking for Shellshock found a different bug

  Yahoo said Monday it has fixed a bug that was mistaken for the Shellshock flaw, but no user data was affected.