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David Filo (2014) – co-founder, chief Yahoo and director, Yahoo Inc.! Catherine J. Friedman; Eddy Hartenstein (2016) – non-executive chairman of the board of directors at Tronc; Richard Hill – chairman of the board of directors at Tessera Technologies; Vinny Lingham – co-founder & CEO at Civic; Marissa Mayer (2012) – CEO, Yahoo! Inc.
Yahoo's first acquisition was the purchase of Net Controls, a web search engine company, in September 1997 for US$1.4 million. As of April 2008, the company's largest acquisition is the purchase of Broadcast.com , an Internet radio company, for $5.7 billion, making Broadcast.com co-founder Mark Cuban a billionaire.
The company is headquartered in Manhattan, New York. [15] As of December 2019, the company employed about 10,350 people. [2] [16]A year after the completion of the AOL acquisition, Verizon announced a $4.8 billion deal for Yahoo!'s core Internet business, to invest in the Internet company's search, news, finance, sports, video, emails and Tumblr products. [17]
In 1998, Yahoo replaced AltaVista as the crawler-based search engine underlying the Directory with Inktomi. [28] Yahoo's two biggest acquisitions were made in 1999: Geocities for $3.6 billion [29] and Broadcast.com for $5.7 billion. [30] Its stock price skyrocketed during the dot-com bubble, closing at an all-time high of $118.75/share on ...
" Yahoo! received around 100,000 unique visitors by the fall of 1994. In April 1995, Yahoo! received a $2 million investment from Sequoia Capital, Tim Koogle was hired as CEO, and Yang and Filo were each appointed "Chief Yahoo." Yahoo! received a second round of funding in the Fall of 1995 from Reuters and Softbank. It went public in April 1996 ...
Yahoo! will pay $1.1 billion for Tumblr, and the company's CEO and founder David Karp will remain a large shareholder. [ 117 ] May 20, 2013: The revamp of the Yahoo-owned photography service Flickr was launched in Times Square , New York, U.S. in an event that was attended by the city's mayor and a large contingency of journalists.
In July 2013, Yahoo! reported a fall in revenues, but a rise in profits compared with the same period in the previous year. Reaction on Wall Street was muted, with shares falling 1.7%. [56] In September 2013, it was reported that the stock price of Yahoo! had doubled over the 14 months since Mayer's appointment. [57]
On June 16, 2017, the company that remained after Verizon Communications purchased the core Internet businesses of Yahoo! Inc. was renamed Altaba Inc. The new company, listed by the Securities and Exchange Commission as a "non-diversified, closed-end management investment company," [7] [32] immediately began trading on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol AABA.