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Yahoo! was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were electrical engineering graduates at Stanford University [1] when they created a website named "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web". The Guide was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages.
In 2005, under Yang's direction but before he took over as CEO in 2007, Yahoo! purchased a 40% stake in Alibaba for $1 billion plus the assets of Yahoo! China, valued at $700 million. [4] In 2012, Yahoo! sold a portion of its stake in Alibaba for $7.6 billion. [14] The company made an additional $9.4 billion in Alibaba's 2014 IPO. [15]
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 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, served as CEO and President of Yahoo from 2012 until June 2017. [7] It was globally known for its Web portal, search ...
David Robert Filo (born April 20, 1966) is an American billionaire businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with classmate Jerry Yang.His Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side software used to dynamically serve variable web pages, called Filo Server Pages, on visits to early versions of the Yahoo! website.
February 4, 2008: Yahoo! and Rhapsody Announce Strategic Partnership in Digital Music. [78] 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 ...
1836 – The Toledo War, a mostly bloodless territorial dispute between Ohio and the Michigan Territory, was unofficially ended with a resolution passed by the controversial "Frostbitten Convention". 1913 – Haruna (pictured) , the fourth and last Japanese battlecruiser of the Kongō class , was launched and went on to serve in both world wars.
The American journalist and writer Eric Schlosser described Sturman in a U.S. News & World Report article in 1997: To his defenders in the sex industry, Sturman was a marketing genius and a champion of free speech, an entrepreneur whose toughness, intelligence, and boundless self-confidence were responsible for his successes.