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Yahoo: A Pioneer's Decline and Resurgence Yahoo, initially styled yahoo, emerged as a prominent web portal in the 1990s, spearheaded by Jerry Yang and David Filo. Its suite of services, including Yahoo Search, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, and Yahoo Finance, quickly gained widespread adoption, establishin...
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- Founded January 1994
- Headquarters Sunnyvale, California, United States
- Area served Worldwide
- Services List of products
- Revenue $7.4 billion (2020)
- Parent Yahoo! Inc. (2021-present), Verizon Media (2019-2021), Oath Inc. (2017-2019), Yahoo! Inc. (1995-2017) (The old Yahoo!)
Yahoo history
Last Updated : 28/03/25, 03:30 PM
Yahoo: From Academic Project to Internet Giant Yahoo, a name initially conceived as a backronym for "Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle," or alternatively, "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," reflects its origins as a database organized in layered subcategories. The "oracle" descri...
YAHOO NEWS
Indian pleads guilty to insider trading in US
November 10, 2013 3:04 am
Aggarwals guilty plea was announced by Manhattans top India-born federal prosecutor Preet Bharara.
Insider trading in US: Another Indian in Preet Bharara's net for sharing info on Microsoft Corp,Yahoo
November 09, 2013 2:03 pm
Anti-insider trading crusader Preet Bharara leads charge; Sandeep Aggarwal faces 25 years in prison,$5 mn fine.
Govt drafts policy to curb use of Gmail,Yahoo for official purposes
September 27, 2013 1:52 am
Central government employees may soon be banned from using Gmail,Yahoo and other email service.
Yahoo CEO feared treason charge,prison term if she defied NSA
September 12, 2013 11:28 am
NSA and the US govt have been under scrutiny for scrutinising personal electronic information.
Yahoo reports 29,000 government data requests
September 07, 2013 1:16 pm
Datat accounts for less than one one-hundredth of one per cent of Yahoo's worldwide user base.
Wary of cyber snooping,govt may ban use of Gmail,Yahoo in official communications
April 08, 2014 3:18 pm
Department of Information Technology is drafting policy on e-mail usage in govt offices.
Yahoo to buy back shares
July 23, 2013 3:26 am
Yahoo! said today it agreed to buy back 40 million shares from a hedge fund which sought a shakeup of the Internet giant last year
Secret court sides with Yahoo to declassify Prism surveillance ruling,US orders
July 17, 2013 11:34 am
The Obama administration declassify and publish a 2008 court decision justifying Prism.
Yahoo accepting requests for inactive email IDs
July 16, 2013 10:24 am
Yahoo is allowing people to place claims on email addresses that are being given a second life.
Back in the Game
June 30, 2013 4:58 am
Yahoo! is once more a force to reckon with,thanks to much-needed revamps of Flickr,Mail and Weather
