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Yahoo! Auctions is a service set up by the online search giant Yahoo! in 1998 to compete against eBay. [2]There are currently only two localizations of the service active in Taiwan and Japan; Yahoo! has discontinued the service in the United States, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, United Kingdom and Ireland.
Carousell is a Singaporean smartphone and web-based consumer to consumer and business to consumer marketplace buying and selling new and secondhand goods. Headquartered in Singapore, it also operates in Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
Carro was co-founded in 2015 by Aaron Tan and his Carnegie Mellon University classmates Aditya Lesmana and Kelvin Chng. [2] [3]In 2016, Carro received $5.3 million in a series A funding round led by Venturra Capital and other investors including Golden Gate Ventures, Alpha JWC and GMO Ventures. [4]
An online auction (also electronic auction, e-auction, virtual auction, or eAuction) is an auction held over the internet and accessed by internet connected devices. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Similar to in-person auctions, online auctions come in a variety of types , with different bidding and selling rules.
Yahoo Japan continued to use the Yahoo brand and operate independently. The deal marked the end of Yahoo's run as an independent company after over 20 years. Despite the acquisition, Yahoo Japan remained a separate entity, maintaining its own branding and operations distinct from Verizon's ownership of Yahoo's U.S. business.
Yahoo (/ ˈ j ɑː h uː / ⓘ, styled yahoo! in its logo) [4] is an American web services portal. The web portal provides search engine Yahoo Search and related services including My Yahoo , Yahoo Mail , Yahoo News , Yahoo Finance , Yahoo Sports and its advertising platform, Yahoo Native .
Yahoo holds a 34.75% minority stake in Yahoo Japan, while SoftBank holds 35.45%, [169] Yahoo!Xtra in New Zealand, which Yahoo!7 have 51% of and 49% belongs to Telecom New Zealand, and Yahoo!7 in Australia, which is a 50–50 agreement between Yahoo and the Seven Network. Historically, Yahoo entered into joint venture agreements with SoftBank ...
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.