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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!
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]
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.
Yang served as CEO of Yahoo from 2007 to 2009 and left the company in 2012. Yahoo has been owned by private equity firm Apollo Global Management since Sept. 2021.. Today, Yang is an early-stage ...
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One of his properties was a 33,000 square-foot English mansion listed for $42 million (a price cut from its original asking price of $65.5 million), according to the New York Post. That mansion ...
When Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web was renamed to Yahoo! in 1994, Yang and Filo said that "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" was a suitable backronym for this name, but they insisted they had selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."
Jerry Yang (born 1968) is the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc. Jerry Yang may also refer to: Jerry Yang (poker player) (born 1967) Xiangzhong Yang or Jerry Yang (1959–2009), biotechnology scientist who worked on cloning