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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 holds a 34.75% minority stake in Yahoo Japan, while SoftBank holds 35.45%, [168] Yahoo!Xtra in New Zealand, which Yahoo!7 have 51% of and 49% belongs to Telecom New Zealand, and Yahoo!7 in Australia, which is a 50–50 agreement between Yahoo and the Seven Network. Historically, Yahoo entered into joint venture agreements with SoftBank ...
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.
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!
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 ...
On May 4, 2021, the site ceased operations and redirected to a Yahoo Help page [5] [a] until July, after which it redirected to the main Yahoo page. Yahoo gave reduced usage of the site as the reason for shutting down, saying "it has become less popular over the years." [5] [6] The archivist group Archive Team and others worked to archive the ...
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]
Yahoo! Celebrity (as omg!) debuted on June 12, 2007, [1] with little fanfare, with the original press release being published on Yahoo!'s corporate blog. [13] Upon launch, MediaWeek reported that Yahoo is hoping to skew more toward a female demographic with omg!, and that Unilever, Pepsi, and Axiata (Celcom & XL) will be the sole official sponsors of the website.