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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! 360° – A social networking service and blog host; launched in March 2005 and shut down in 2009. Yahoo! 360° Plus Vietnam's was shut down in 2012. [3] Yahoo! Accessibility Lab – Improved access to the Internet for the disabled community. [4] AdInterax – An online advertising company acquired in October 2006. [5] Yahoo!
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]
[4] [5] An Amazon-owned marketing data collection company (Alexa Internet) claimed Yahoo! News one of the world's top news sites, at this point. [6] Plans were made to add a Twitter feed. [7] In November, 2013, Yahoo hired former Today Show and CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric as Global Anchor of Yahoo! News. [8] She left in 2017. [9]
In April 1994, Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web was renamed "Yahoo!". [9] [10] The word "YAHOO" is a backronym for "Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle" [11] or "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle." [12] The yahoo.com domain was created on January 18, 1995. [13]
An Arabic language Q&A platform called Seen Jeem was available through the Yahoo! subsidiary Maktoob until 2010, and the Chinese language version Yahoo! Knowledge was available until 2021. [16] The platform is known as Yahoo! Chiebukuro (Yahoo!知恵袋) in Japan. [17] On December 8, 2016, Yahoo! released an app for the platform called Yahoo!
December 1, 2005: TiVo and Yahoo! form a partnership where several Yahoo! features can be viewed on television via the Series2 TiVo set top box. [ 53 ] December 8 (U.S. time), 9 (Australian time), 2005: Australia's Seven Network combines its online, mobile and internet TV business with the local arm of Yahoo! and the commencement of Yahoo!7 is ...