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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
Yahoo! taps IIT Madras for cloud solutions
July 16, 2012 1:46 am
The internet major believes that the next wave of scientific breakthroughs will come from R&D conducted at the same unprecedented scale and scope as the Web itself.
Password breach hits Yahoo,GMail
July 13, 2012 1:18 am
Yahoo has said that a file containing approximately 400,000 usernames and passwords to Yahoo and other companies was stolen
Yahoo,Facebook launch alliance
July 07, 2012 12:54 pm
"We are excited to develop a deeper partnership with Facebook," said Ross Levinsohn,CEO,Yahoo.
Yahoo! bets big on online video
June 15, 2012 7:44 pm
Ties up with Vidhu Vinod Chopra Productions for a retrospective of its movies for web audiences.
Ex-Yahoo exec,fund manager plead guilty in insider trading
May 23, 2012 12:45 am
Based on Kwoks illegal tip,Shah prompted the mutual funds she managed to buy more than 700,000 shares of Yahoo stock that were later sold for profits of approximately $389,000,the SEC alleged.
Alibaba buys back Yahoo stake for $7.1 bn
May 22, 2012 12:59 am
Under the agreement,Yahoo will sell one-half its stake in Alibaba for at least $6.3 billion in cash and up to $800 million in new Alibaba preferred stock.
Yahoo to sell back 20% of holding to Alibaba Group
May 21, 2012 6:03 pm
Yahoo bought 40 per cent stake in Alibaba Group in 2005 for about USD 1 billion.
Yahoos CEO to quit amid resume manipulation controversy
May 14, 2012 12:30 am
Yahoos embattled chief executive,Scott Thompson,plans to leave his post after a controversy over his embellished academic credentials embroiled the Web company,people briefed on the matter told New York Times
'Yahoo in talks to sell 15-25% of Alibaba'
May 05, 2012 12:48 pm
The two companies have been in talks for a month.
Facebook infringing on 12 patents: Yahoo
April 28, 2012 2:04 pm
Yahoo has now claimed that Facebook is infringing on 12,rather than ten,of its patents.
