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Yahoo! Auctions is a service set up by the online search giant Yahoo! in 1998 to compete against eBay. [2]There are currently only two localizations of the service active in Taiwan and Japan; Yahoo! has discontinued the service in the United States, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, United Kingdom and Ireland.
Yahoo!, once one of the most popular web sites in the United States, is as of September 2021 a content sub-division of the namesake company Yahoo Inc., owned by Apollo Global Management (90%) and Verizon Communications (10%). It has offered a wide range of online sites and services since its inception in 1994, a majority of which are now defunct.
Yahoo Japan continued to use the Yahoo brand and operate independently. The deal marked the end of Yahoo's run as an independent company after over 20 years. Despite the acquisition, Yahoo Japan remained a separate entity, maintaining its own branding and operations distinct from Verizon's ownership of Yahoo's U.S. business.
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.
June 16, 2007: Yahoo! officially retires the Yahoo! Auctions service, except in some parts of Asia. [68] June 18, 2007: Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang replaces Terry Semel as CEO. [69] June 20, 2007: Yahoo! agrees to acquire Rivals.com. [70] June 28, 2007: Yahoo! UK/Ireland online auctions closes, but the Hong Kong sites are not affected. [71]
LY Corporation (LINEヤフー株式会社, Rain Yafū Kabushiki-gaisha, lit. ' Line Yahoo Corporation '), trading as LYC, [1] is a Japanese internet company owned by A Holdings, a joint venture between SoftBank Group of Japan, and Naver Corporation of South Korea, [2] founded in 2023 by the merger of Z Holdings, and four subsidiaries including Line Corporation and Yahoo!
SIMBA Telecom Pte Ltd, formerly known as TPG Singapore, is a Singaporean telecommunications company and one of four major telecommunication company operating in the country. TPG Singapore was founded in 2016 by Australian businessman David Teoh after winning an auction from Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) for its airwaves rights.
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