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Yahoo! Inc. [3] was an American multinational technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995.
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!
Jeffrey Mallett (born August 7, 1964) is a Canadian entrepreneur and investor. He is best known for building internet giant Yahoo!.Described as Yahoo's "wizard behind the curtains pulling all the levers," [1] Mallett manages a portfolio of Internet, sports, entertainment and real estate investments in the United States, Canada, England, and China.
James Lanzone (born January 20, 1971) is an American businessman and the CEO of Yahoo Inc. Previously, he was CEO of Tinder.He is also the former president and CEO of CBS Interactive, a top 10 Internet property that operated key websites including CBS All Access, CNET, GameSpot, CBS News, Metacritic, CBS Sports, 247 Sports, Scout Media, MaxPreps.com, TVGuide.com, Last.fm and many others.
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.
A meeting with Alibaba founder Jack Ma in 1997 would ultimately benefit Yang and the company when Yahoo purchased a 40% stake in Alibaba for $1 billion in 2005, an investment it would later sell ...
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.
He was CEO until 2009, when Yahoo! named Carol Bartz as CEO. [32] He regained his former position as "Chief Yahoo" and remained on Yahoo's board of directors. [33] In January 2012, Yahoo! announced that Yang was leaving the company and would be resigning from the board and all other positions at the company.