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Yahoo! (/ ˈ j ɑː h uː /, styled yahoo! in its logo) 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! started at Stanford University. It was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were electrical engineering graduates 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! Inc. is an American multinational technology company that focuses on media and online business. It is the second and current incarnation of the company, after Verizon Communications acquired the core assets of its predecessor and merged them with AOL in 2017.
Mar 29, 2024 · Yahoo!, global Internet brand and services provider based in Sunnyvale, California, and owned by Verizon Communications since 2017. It was founded in 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, graduate students at Stanford University in California.
Mar 1, 2015 · Yahoo was debatably the first Internet company to do so. With zippy, hip ads, matching the slick name and the brash image of the site overall, Americans found themselves being asked “Do You Yahoo?” Yahoo quickly became one of the Internet’s most recognizable names, familiar even to the vast unwashed Americans who were not yet even online.
Mar 21, 2018 · Yahoo was the first site to add news, sports, and finance feeds to its web directory; those three services remain hugely popular as part of Oath, Verizon’s name for its AOL-Yahoo media mashup.
Yahoo! is a web portal and a provider of internet content and services. It offers many products and services, such as a search engine , e-mail , instant messaging , video , news , weather forecasting , money and other information.
