Sunnyvale, California -- In a surprising turn of events, the global Internet pioneer Yahoo has decided to discontinue several product features such as its Messenger public chat rooms, and will no longer support Messenger's interoperability with Microsoft Windows Live, Pingbox effective December 14 and will not be offering Yahoo! Voice Phone In and Phone Out services by January 30th, 2013.

Sunnyvale, California - In a most excruciating suit ever, brought by Worldwide Directories S.A. de C.V. and Ideas Interactivas, S.A. de C.V., accused Internet pioneer Yahoo of breach of contract related to a yellow-pages listing service, as the company says it has been ordered to pay $2.7bn (£1.68bn) by a Mexican court.

Sunnyvale, California - In an effort to deliver real-time content, internet pioneer Yahoo and Samsung have inked a deal to integrate its Broadcast Interactivity service into the company's Smart TVs to your living room, the companies announced earlier this week.

Sunnyvale, California -- Yahoo has confirmed that it plans to ignore “Do Not Track” privacy requests sent by Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE10) browser because, it claims, Redmond is violating the concept's intent by turning it on by default.

Today's announcement reignites a conflagration that was initiated by Microsoft's announcement in May, and became even more provocative earlier this month when the Digital Advertising Alliance said advertising companies that choose to ignore Do Not Track requests “automatically set in IE10 or any other browser” would not be penalized.