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Yahoo (/ ˈ j ɑː h uː / ⓘ, styled yahoo! in its logo) [4] is an American web portal that provides the search engine Yahoo Search and related services including My Yahoo, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports and its advertising platform, Yahoo Native. It is operated by the namesake company Yahoo!
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 ...
It acquires MapQuest for $1.1 billion in December. 2000 : America Online merges with Time Warner. While the "marriage" didn't last, it was biggest corporate merger in history at the time.
On June 16, 2017, the company that remained after Verizon Communications purchased the core Internet businesses of Yahoo! Inc. was renamed Altaba Inc. The new company, listed by the Securities and Exchange Commission as a "non-diversified, closed-end management investment company," [7] [32] immediately began trading on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol AABA.
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! 360° – A social networking service and blog host; launched in March 2005 and shut down in 2009. 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!
On August 7, 2013, at around midnight EDT, Yahoo! announced that it would be introducing the final version of the new logo on 5 September 2013 at 4:00 a.m. UTC. To mark the occasion, the company launched a "30 days of change" campaign that involved releasing a variation of the logo on each of the 30 days leading up to the revelation date.
Yahoo! announced that "changes in supporting technologies and increased security requirements for our own Yahoo! web pages, made it impossible to keep the games running safely and securely". [4] It was then announced by Yahoo! that its games section would be dissolved completely on May 13, 2016. [ 5 ]