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posted by martyb on Friday December 08 2017, @01:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the Search!-Contract!-Dispute! dept.

Oath and Mozilla are in a legal battle over a Yahoo search deal

Yahoo's new owner Oath — which, in turn, is owned by telecom giant Verizon — is now in a legal battle with browser company Mozilla over a search deal that was struck by former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer.

Last week, Yahoo Holdings and Oath filed a complaint against Mozilla, alleging that it improperly terminated an agreement between Mozilla and Yahoo. Now, Mozilla just filed a cross-complaint, claiming breach of contract.

Mozilla announced that it was going back to Google, which had been its longtime search provider, in mid-November in the U.S., Canada, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Google had remained its partner in other countries and Mozilla also has deals with Yandex in Russia and Baidu in China. At the time, it also announced a new browser, Firefox Quantum.

Mozilla's counter-claim says that Yahoo!/Oath missed payments.

Yahoo Holdings complaint and Mozilla blog post.

Also at The Register and ZDNet.

Previously: Firefox Deal With Yahoo not Secured. Mozilla Could Lose Their Main Sponsor
Mozilla Could Walk Away from a New Yahoo Owner and Still Get $1 Billion
Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion
Verizon to House Yahoo! and AOL Under "Oath" Brand


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by captain normal on Friday December 08 2017, @03:36AM (4 children)

    by captain normal (2205) on Friday December 08 2017, @03:36AM (#607081)

    Hey if it wasn't for AOL and all the free CDROMs we would never have been able make shiny ashtrays, or flashy room dividers not to mention solar cookers. Actually AOL was the first to charge a flat fee for internet connections. 20$ a month for all the 56 kbs you could use. They also provided million of folks an email address and a presence on the interwebby thingy.
    As for Yahoo...that was something weird that happened between Alta Vista/ Dog Pile and google. Not sure what it was though.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Friday December 08 2017, @03:51AM (1 child)

    by Arik (4543) on Friday December 08 2017, @03:51AM (#607084) Journal
    "They also provided million of folks an email address and a presence on the interwebby thingy."

    A catastrophe which is mourned by my people.

    http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/September-that-never-ended.html
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    • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Friday December 08 2017, @05:06AM

      by captain normal (2205) on Friday December 08 2017, @05:06AM (#607096)

      And thus we now have SN...spawn of /. and MySpace. :-))

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 08 2017, @12:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 08 2017, @12:25PM (#607160)

    Don't forget holiday ornaments. Microwave a CD for a few seconds, and you get a light show in the microwave and a disk with all kinds of pretty fractal-like blue lines through it.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 08 2017, @01:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 08 2017, @01:49PM (#607177)

    Some of us greybeards remember AOL floppies. They at least could be re-used. I once got an AOL disk at the drive-thru at McDonalds much to my surprise. Never used AOL but I did use CompuServe until I got sick of the slow speed and discovered a local dialup.