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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 ...
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! in turn became the sales team for banner advertising for both companies. [74] While Microsoft would provide algorithmic search results, Yahoo! would control the presentation and personalization of results for searches on its pages. [74] On July 21, 2009, Yahoo! launched a new version of its front page, called Metro.
July 25, 2005: Yahoo acquires widget engine software Konfabulator that is transformed into a free software platform and renamed Yahoo! Widgets. [46] August 11, 2005: Yahoo acquires 40 percent of Alibaba.com for $1 billion, and Alibaba takes over the operation of Yahoo China. [47] August 23, 2005: Verizon and Yahoo launch integrated DSL service ...
Viaweb's software, written mostly in Common Lisp, allowed users to make their own Internet stores. In the summer of 1998, after Jerry Yang received a strong recommendation from Ali Partovi, [15] Viaweb was sold to Yahoo! for 455,000 shares of Yahoo! stock, valued at $49.6 million. [16] After the acquisition, the product became Yahoo! Store.
Yahoo offers a multi-lingual interface available in over 20 languages: Yahoo International. Yahoo! Japan is a separate entity, controlled by SoftBank. [1] Yahoo!Xtra, launched in 2007 in New Zealand is owned by Yahoo!7, a joint venture between Yahoo! and the Seven Network.
Two alternatives which Stallman does accept are software libre and unfettered software, but free software is the term he asks people to use in English. For similar reasons, he argues for the term proprietary software or non-free software rather than closed-source software , when referring to software that is not free software.
The sister site softwareengineering.stackexchange.com is intended to be a venue for broader queries, e.g. general questions about software development. [31] Closing questions is a main differentiation from other Q&A sites like Yahoo! Answers and a way to prevent low quality questions.