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July 25, 2005: Yahoo acquires widget engine software Konfabulator that is transformed into a free software platform and renamed Yahoo! Widgets. [46] August 11, 2005: Yahoo acquires 40 percent of Alibaba.com for $1 billion, and Alibaba takes over the operation of Yahoo China. [47] August 23, 2005: Verizon and Yahoo launch integrated DSL service ...
In early 2012, Yahoo laid off 2,000 employees (14 percent of the workforce). This was the largest layoff in Yahoo!'s history. [10] Carol Bartz replaced co-founder Yang as chief executive officer in January 2009, [11] but was fired by the board of directors in September 2011. Tim Morse was appointed as interim CEO following Bartz's departure. [12]
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 ...
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.
Marissa Ann Mayer (/ ˈ m aɪ. ər /; born May 30, 1975) [4] is an American business executive and investor who served as president and chief executive officer of Yahoo! from 2012 to 2017. She was a long-time executive, usability leader and key spokesperson for Google (employee No. 20). [5] [6] [7] Mayer later co-founded Sunshine, a startup ...
" 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 ...
After the sale of Log-Me-On, Riley started at Yahoo! as a manager in Corporate Development and became a director of Business Development, senior vice president of the Small & Medium Business Division, managing director and senior vice president of the EMEA Region, and finally executive vice president of the Americas, during which he reported to the CEO and was a member of Yahoo’s Executive ...
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.