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  2. History of Yahoo - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Yahoo - Wikipedia

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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 .

  4. Jerry Yang - Wikipedia

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    " Yahoo! received around 100,000 unique visitors by the fall of 1994. In April 1995, Yahoo! received a $2 million investment from Sequoia Capital, Tim Koogle was hired as CEO, and Yang and Filo were each appointed "Chief Yahoo." Yahoo! received a second round of funding in the Fall of 1995 from Reuters and Softbank. It went public in April 1996 ...

  5. David Filo - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. List of corporate directors of Yahoo - Wikipedia

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    David Filo (2014) – co-founder, chief Yahoo and director, Yahoo Inc.! Catherine J. Friedman; Eddy Hartenstein (2016) – non-executive chairman of the board of directors at Tronc; Richard Hill – chairman of the board of directors at Tessera Technologies; Vinny Lingham – co-founder & CEO at Civic; Marissa Mayer (2012) – CEO, Yahoo! Inc.

  7. Yahoo! Inc. (1995–2017) - Wikipedia

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    Yahoo Go, a Java-based phone application with access to most of Yahoo services, was closed on January 12, 2010. [110] Yahoo 360° was a blogging/social networking beta service launched in March 2005 by Yahoo and closed on July 13, 2009. [111] Yahoo Mash beta was another social service closed after one year of operation prior to leaving beta status.

  8. Timeline of Yahoo - Wikipedia

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    Yahoo! will pay $1.1 billion for Tumblr, and the company's CEO and founder David Karp will remain a large shareholder. [ 117 ] May 20, 2013: The revamp of the Yahoo-owned photography service Flickr was launched in Times Square , New York, U.S. in an event that was attended by the city's mayor and a large contingency of journalists.

  9. List of Yahoo-owned sites and services - Wikipedia

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    Yahoo!, once one of the most popular web sites in the United States, is as of September 2021 a content sub-division of the namesake company Yahoo Inc., owned by Apollo Global Management (90%) and Verizon Communications (10%). It has offered a wide range of online sites and services since its inception in 1994, a majority of which are now defunct.