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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
How Verizon hopes to grab digital ad dollars with Yahoo
June 09, 2017 1:10 pm
Verizon has a simple goal in buying Yahoo: It wants to challenge Google and Facebook in the huge and lucrative field of digital advertising
From Sundar Pichai to Elon Musk: A look at salaries of top tech CEOs
April 30, 2017 2:54 pm
This is how much each top tech CEO takes home.
Oath, a new Verizon unit, to debut when Yahoo is merged with AOL
April 04, 2017 2:31 pm
Verizon Communications Inc. will introduce a new division called Oath this summer, around the time it expects to combine its AOL unit with Yahoo's internet assets.
Lessons from Yahoo hack: Simple tips to safeguard your email
March 20, 2017 12:25 pm
You can make yourself less of a target. There are a few simple ways to help safeguard your email account from hackers.
Yahoo breach indictments may shed light on other hacks
March 16, 2017 4:04 pm
Using in some cases a technique known as "spear-phishing" to dupe Yahoo users, the hackers broke into at least 500 million accounts.
Verizon suggested price cut of up to $925 million for Yahoo deal after security breach
March 14, 2017 2:37 pm
Verizon CEO suggested a price cut of as much as $925 million for the deal to buy Yahoo's internet assets after revelations of massive online security breaches surfaced last year.
Yahoo's new Captain bot will make family coordination easier
March 07, 2017 12:41 pm
Yahoo's new Captain bot can be used to set reminder for individuals or send reminders to family members via SMS.
Yahoo admits forged cookies were used to access 32 million accounts
March 02, 2017 3:54 pm
Yahoo’s network was breached twice; once in 2013 with one billion accounts affected, and the second time in 2014 with 500 million accounts affected.
Yahoo issues another warning in fallout from hacking attacks
February 16, 2017 1:19 pm
Yahoo confirmed it was notifying users that their accounts had potentially been compromised but declined to say how many people were affected.
Verizon close to Yahoo deal, price cut of $250-350 mn expected
February 16, 2017 10:46 am
Verizon is close to a revised deal to buy Yahoo's core internet business for $250 million to $350 million less than original price
