Before smartphones — much less smartphone apps — were a thing, before Facebook and MySpace battled it out for which would become the highlander of social networks, before Snapchat or Twitter or Skype, ...

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 ...

— The Web flourished as a free-wheeling medium that gave any interest an audience. But as big business has tried to capitalize on those audiences, advertisers increasingly find their brands popping up ...

Yahoo Inc. has shut some Internet chat rooms after companies including PepsiCo Inc. and Georgia-Pacific Corp. pulled advertising, citing concerns that the sites were being used by adults to lure young ...

Yahoo may be in the middle of selling itself but it isn’t giving up on trying to stay relevant to Internet users. The company has launched its first three chat bots on Kik Messenger, a chat app that’s ...

SAN FRANCISCO --Family advocacy groups lauded Yahoo on Thursday for closing its chat rooms to clean up areas that allegedly were used to prey on children. Over the past month, pressure has been ...

NEW YORK – Yahoo Inc. said Wednesday it will bar chat rooms that promote sex between minors and adults and restrict all chat rooms to users 18 and older. The Internet portal also will prescreen the ...