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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.
Yahoo! GeoCities was a popular web hosting service founded in 1995 and was one of the first services to offer web pages to the public. In 1998, it was the third-most-browsed website. [33] [34] Yahoo acquired GeoCities in 1999 and shut it down in 2009, deleting 7 million web pages.
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 Ne
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]
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! Japan continues to use a site design similar to the one used internationally prior to 2007, as well as the red Yahoo logo that was used by the international Yahoo brand before 2013. The company has maintained a consistent look and feel over the years, even as the international Yahoo brand has evolved.
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.
September 27, 2006: Yahoo! acquires online video editing site Jumpcut. [59] September 29 to 30, 2006: Yahoo! hosts an Open Hack Day (including an external site) that features a musical performance by Beck. [60] December 5, 2006: Yahoo! announces a significant re-organization, including the departure of Dan Rosensweig (COO), Lloyd Braun, and ...