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Yahoo (/ ˈ j ɑː h uː / ⓘ, styled yahoo! in its logo) [4] [5] is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California , and operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc. , which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon .
Yahoo! 360° Plus Vietnam's was shut down in 2012. [3] Yahoo! Accessibility Lab – Improved access to the Internet for the disabled community. [4] AdInterax – An online advertising company acquired in October 2006. [5] Yahoo! Answers – A community-driven question-and-answer (Q&A) website discontinued in May 2021. [6] APT from Yahoo!
Yahoo holds a 34.75% minority stake in Yahoo Japan, while SoftBank holds 35.45%, [168] 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 ...
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]
AltaVista was a web search engine established in 1995. It became one of the most-used early search engines, but lost ground to Google and was purchased by Yahoo! in 2003, which retained the brand, but based all AltaVista searches on its own search engine.
[2] [3] On April 5, 2021, Yahoo! announced that Yahoo! Answers would be shutting down. [4] [5] [6] On April 20, 2021, the website switched to read-only and users were no longer able to ask or answer questions. [4] [5] [6] The site ceased operations on May 4, 2021. The URL now redirects to the Yahoo! homepage. An unaffiliated Japanese version ...
The Guide was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages. In April 1994, Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web was renamed "Yahoo!". [2] [3] The word "YAHOO" is a backronym for "Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle" [4] or "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle."
December 1, 2005: TiVo and Yahoo! form a partnership where several Yahoo! features can be viewed on television via the Series2 TiVo set top box. [ 53 ] December 8 (U.S. time), 9 (Australian time), 2005: Australia's Seven Network combines its online, mobile and internet TV business with the local arm of Yahoo! and the commencement of Yahoo!7 is ...