Yahoo Mail mobile apps get updated to prove it's still alive

Once the darling of the young Web, Yahoo has now become a sort of a joke. Owning a Yahoo email address, while not uncommon, is sometimes a point of ridicule among younger netizens. Trying to salvage the sinking ship, Verizon, under its OATH (now Verizon Media) subsidiary, acquired Yahoo and its assets, including Tumblr. Now Verizon is trying to prove …