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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! ( / ˈjɑːhuː /, 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 .
Hokkien POJ. iông tì oán. Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang ( Chinese: 楊致遠; pinyin: Yáng Zhìyuǎn; born Yang Chih-Yuan; November 6, 1968) is an American billionaire computer programmer, internet entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc. and founding partner of AME Cloud Ventures.
Yahoo! Jerry Yang and David Filo co-founded Yahoo! in 1994. Yang took the title of CEO before the company came public in 1996. It was a hot stock, for a while, and then it struggled to compete ...
yahoo .com. The original incarnation of Yahoo! Inc. [3] was an American multinational technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. [4] [5] Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early internet era in the 1990s. [6]
Gary Winnick (1.5 Years): Founded Global Crossing. Gary Winnick was born in New York City and attended C.W. Post College in Long Island. Winnick founded Global Crossing in 1997, which laid fiber ...
David Filo. Co-founder and Chief Yahoo, Yahoo! Inc. 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 ...
March 2007: Yahoo! acquires Taiwan blogging site wretch.cc. [66] April 30, 2007: Yahoo! announces acquisition of Right Media. [67] June 16, 2007: Yahoo! officially retires the Yahoo! Auctions service, except in some parts of Asia. [68] June 18, 2007: Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang replaces Terry Semel as CEO.