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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
EU questions US over Yahoo email scanning, amid privacy concerns
November 14, 2016 10:23 am
The European Commission has asked the USA about a secret court order Yahoo used to scan customer emails.
Yahoo admits some staff knew about hacking in 2014
November 12, 2016 1:59 pm
Yahoo has recently admitted that some of its staff knew about the hacking in 2014.
In Yahoo breach, hackers may seek intelligence, not riches
December 15, 2016 9:50 am
Yahoo says the breach involved users' email addresses, passwords and other information including birth dates but not payment card or bank account numbers
Yahoo's 500 million accounts breach will only make its problems worse
December 15, 2016 9:49 am
Yahoo has been struggling for years to keep people on its email services, and the hacking comes at a bad time.
Yahoo 500mn user accounts hacked: Steps to protect your account
December 15, 2016 9:49 am
Yahoo users need to protect their account after the company confirmed a massive data breach. Here's how to do it.
Yahoo adds Finance, News, Weather and Monkey bot to Facebook Messenger
July 10, 2016 11:02 am
Yahoo has introduced four new bots to Facebook Messenger to help users get news, stock market trends, weather forecasts.
Yahoo unveils MonkeyPet for Facebook Messenger
July 09, 2016 10:19 am
Yahoo bots for Facebook Messenger include - @Yahoo Finance, @YahooNews, @YahooWeather and @MonkeyPet.
Yahoo Mail app now has 'undo sent' option
July 07, 2016 7:15 pm
Yahoo Mail has announced new iOS and Android updates allowing users to personalise their inbox.
Yahoo shutting down its old Messenger app on August 5
June 13, 2016 10:37 am
Yahoo has asked users to update to the new Messenger by August 5, as they will not be able to access their chats after that.
Will Twitter merge with Yahoo? "Not a crazy Idea"
June 04, 2016 2:34 pm
Twitter and Yahoo executives spent several hours hashing out Yahoo's financials,
