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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.
Yahoo holds a 34.75% minority stake in Yahoo Japan, while SoftBank holds 35.45%, [168] Yahoo!Xtra in New Zealand, which Yahoo!7 have 51% of and 49% belongs to Telecom New Zealand, and Yahoo!7 in Australia, which is a 50–50 agreement between Yahoo and the Seven Network. Historically, Yahoo entered into joint venture agreements with SoftBank ...
February 12, 2006: Yahoo! Developer Network PHP Center launched. [57] May 1, 2006: Yahoo! launches Yahoo! Tech. [58] September 27, 2006: Yahoo! acquires online video editing site Jumpcut. [59] September 29 to 30, 2006: Yahoo! hosts an Open Hack Day (including an external site) that features a musical performance by Beck. [60]
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 Communications .
Yahoo's first acquisition was the purchase of Net Controls, a web search engine company, in September 1997 for US$1.4 million. As of April 2008, the company's largest acquisition is the purchase of Broadcast.com , an Internet radio company, for $5.7 billion, making Broadcast.com co-founder Mark Cuban a billionaire.
Fandom was launched on October 18, 2004, at 23:50:49 (UTC) under the name Wikicities (which invited comparisons to Yahoo's GeoCities), [15] by Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, and Angela Beesley Starling—respectively chairman emeritus and advisory board member of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Minicraft is a 2011 2D top-down action game created by Markus Persson, the creator of the Minecraft franchise. It was developed in 48 hours as part of the 22nd Ludum Dare game jam competition. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] At the time of its release, it was reported to be a "sequel" to Minecraft .
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.