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Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang (Chinese: 楊致遠; pinyin: Yáng Zhìyuǎn; born Yang Chih-Yuan; November 6, 1968) is a Taiwanese-born American billionaire computer programmer, internet entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo!
Yahoo was established by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s. [5] However, its use declined in the 2010s as some of its services were discontinued, and it lost market share to Facebook and Google .
Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. [4] [5] Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early internet era in the 1990s. [6] Marissa Mayer, a former Google executive, was CEO and president of Yahoo from July 2012 until June 2017. [7] It was globally known for its Web portal, search ...
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] July 18, 2007: Yahoo acquires 35 percent stake in Indian online advertising company Tyroo Media Pvt Ltd. [72]
Xiangzhong "Jerry" Yang (simplified Chinese: 杨向中; traditional Chinese: 楊向中; pinyin: Yáng Xiàngzhōng; July 1959 – 5 February 2009) was a Chinese-American biotechnology scientist, and stem cell research advocate. In 1999 he was credited with creating the first cloned farm animal in the United States – a cow called "Amy".
Yang Chih-yuan may refer to: Jerry Yang (born 1968), Chinese name Yang Chih-yuan, Taiwanese-American entrepreneur and the co-founder of Yahoo! Inc; Yang Chih-yuan (politician) (born 1990), Taiwanese nationalist politician; Yang Chih-yuan, a Taiwanese student involved in a controversy about stamps designed for the International Day of Peace in 2004
Erik Brynjolfsson is an American academic, author and inventor. He is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and a Senior Fellow [1] at Stanford University where he directs the Digital Economy Lab at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, with appointments at SIEPR, [2] the Stanford Department of Economics and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Kazuki Ohta, Hironobu Yoshikawa and Sadayuki Furuhashi founded Treasure Data in 2011. [4] [2] [8] Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang was one of Treasure Data's angel donors. [2]In that same year, the company created Fluentd, a cross-platform open-source data collection software project, written primarily in Ruby (a programming language developed by Yukihiro Matsumoto, another investor in Treasure Data).