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LY Corporation (LINEヤフー株式会社, Rain Yafū Kabushiki-gaisha, lit. ' Line Yahoo Corporation '), trading as LYC, [1] is a Japanese internet company owned by A Holdings, a joint venture between SoftBank Group of Japan, and Naver Corporation of South Korea, [2] founded in 2023 by the merger of Z Holdings, and four subsidiaries including Line Corporation and Yahoo!
Yahoo! Japan was a founding member of the Japan Association of New Economy (JANE, at the time named Japan e-business association), a Japanese e-business association led by Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani, in February 2010; Rakuten later withdrew from the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) in June 2011 and made moves to make JANE become a rival to Keidanren.
Yahoo! Japan acquired the naming rights for the Fukuoka Dome in 2005, renaming the dome as the "Fukuoka Yahoo! Japan Dome". The "Yahoo Dome" is the home field for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, a professional baseball team, majorly owned by SoftBank. Since 2010, Yahoo! Japan's search engine has been based on Google's search technology. In exchange ...
Online services Yahoo Japan and Line Corp. have announced they are merging. Z Holdings Corp., which owns SoftBank Corp. that operates Yahoo Japan, and Naver Corp. of South Korea, which owns a ...
Line Corporation was founded on September 4, 2000, as Hangame Japan as a part of Hangame, a South Korean game company owned by NHN at the time. In August 2003, the company was renamed to NHN Japan. In 2007 Naver established another Japanese subsidiary Naver Japan, which managed the Naver
SoftBank billionaire Masayoshi Son has pledged to invest $100 billion in the US over the next four years. Masa's longtime friend and Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang weighs in on the pledge.
Yahoo offers a multi-lingual interface available in over 20 languages: Yahoo International. Yahoo! Japan is a separate entity, controlled by SoftBank. [1] Yahoo!Xtra, launched in 2007 in New Zealand is owned by Yahoo!7, a joint venture between Yahoo! and the Seven Network.
Verizon ended up buying Yahoo in 2017 for $4.5 billion. In 2019, Verizon sold Tumblr to Automattic , the company that owns and operates online-publishing platform WordPress, for a reported $3 million.