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Yahoo! was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were electrical engineering graduates at Stanford University [1] when they created a website named "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web". The Guide was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages.
In 2005, under Yang's direction but before he took over as CEO in 2007, Yahoo! purchased a 40% stake in Alibaba for $1 billion plus the assets of Yahoo! China, valued at $700 million. [4] In 2012, Yahoo! sold a portion of its stake in Alibaba for $7.6 billion. [14] The company made an additional $9.4 billion in Alibaba's 2014 IPO. [15]
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 .
David Filo (4 Years): Yahoo Co-Founder David Filo, originally from Wisconsin, attended Stanford University, where he met Jerry Yang. As a co-founder of Yahoo, David mirrored Yang’s path to wealth.
Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. [4] [5] Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early internet era in the 1990s. [6] Marissa Mayer, a former Google executive, served as CEO and President of Yahoo from 2012 until June 2017. [7] It was globally known for its Web portal, search ...
February 4, 2008: Yahoo! and Rhapsody Announce Strategic Partnership in Digital Music. [78] February 12, 2008: Yahoo! acquires Maven Networks, Inc. [79] February 12, 2008: Yahoo! and T-Mobile Agree to Enter into Strategic Partnership. [80] November 17, 2008: Yahoo! co-founder and CEO Yang steps down as CEO just 18 months after his starting date ...
David Robert Filo (born April 20, 1966) is an American billionaire businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with classmate Jerry Yang.His Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side software used to dynamically serve variable web pages, called Filo Server Pages, on visits to early versions of the Yahoo! website.
[4] [5] [6] 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. Most of the ...