Yahoo CIO Mike Kail. Netflix Inc.NFLX -2.10% sued its former vice president of IT operations Mike Kail, Monday, alleging that he accepted kickbacks from vendors. Mr. Kail currently is the chief information officer of Yahoo Inc.YHOO -0.21% In the lawsuit, Netflix accused Mr. Kail of fraud, breach of

There’s plenty of speculation over what Yahoo YHOO -1.40% will do with all that Alibaba money. One popular theory: advertising technology. The idea is that Chief Executive Marissa Mayer may want to match what Google, AOL AOL -3.90% and now Facebook FB -2.00% are doing — building out full suites of

If you were hoping for clues about what Yahoo YHOO +0.44% Chief Executive Marissa Mayer is planning to do with all that post-Alibaba IPO cash, you weren’t going to find it on Thursday when Ms. Mayer sat for a keynote interview at Advertising Week. In fact, if you were looking for Ms. Mayer to talk

The U.S. government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day in 2008 if it failed to comply with a broad demand for user data that the company believed was unconstitutional, according to court documents unsealed Thursday. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) The U.S. government threatened to fine Yahoo