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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. [81]
The yahoo.com domain was created in January 1995, [6] although by the end of 1994 Yahoo! had already received one million hits. Yang and Filo realized their website had massive business potential, and on March 2, 1995, Yahoo! was incorporated. [1]
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 .
Yahoo! News is a news website that originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo!. The site was created by Yahoo! software engineer Brad Clawsie in August 1996. Articles originally came from news services such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Fox News, Al Jazeera, ABC News, USA Today, CNN and BBC News. In 2000, Yahoo!
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The company is headquartered in Manhattan, New York. [15] As of December 2019, the company employed about 10,350 people. [2] [16]A year after the completion of the AOL acquisition, Verizon announced a $4.8 billion deal for Yahoo!'s core Internet business, to invest in the Internet company's search, news, finance, sports, video, emails and Tumblr products. [17]
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