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Yahoo!

Yahoo was founded in 1994 by Stanford Ph.D. students David Filo and Jerry Yang. It has since evolved into a major internet brand with search, content verticals, and other web services.

Yahoo! Inc. (Yahoo!), incorporated in 1995, is a global Internet brand. To users, the Company provides owned and operated online properties and services (Yahoo! Properties, Offerings, or Owned and Operated sites). Yahoo! also extends its marketing platform and access to Internet users beyond Yahoo! Properties through its distribution network of third-party entities (referred to as Affiliates) who have integrated its advertising offerings into their Websites (referred to as Affiliate sites) or their other offerings. To advertisers and publishers, it provides a range of marketing solutions and tools that enable businesses to reach users who visit Yahoo! Properties and its Affiliate sites. To developers, the Company provides an array of Web services and application programming interfaces (APIs), technical resources, tools, and channels to market.

The Company’s offerings to users fall into five categories: Front Doors; Search; Communications and Communities; Media, and Connected Life. The majority of its offerings are available in more than 20 languages. Yahoo! generates revenues by providing marketing services to advertisers across a majority of Yahoo! Properties and Affiliate sites. Additionally, although many of its user services are free, Yahoo! does charge for a range of premium services that it offers.

Milestones

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  Yahoo! — Yahoo to launch Political News site hiring Andrew Golis deputy publisher for Talking Points Memo (TPM) to run it. (10/21/09)
  Posted 10/21/09 at 10:05am
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  Yahoo! acquired Maktoob. (8/25/09)
  Posted 8/25/09 at 8:58am
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  Yahoo! added Daniel Raffel as Senior Product Manager. (8/09)
  Posted 11/14/09 at 5:25pm
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  Yahoo! — Microsoft will now power Yahoo! search while Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies' premium search advertisers. (7/29/09)
  Posted 10/29/09 at 7:33pm
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  Yahoo! acquired Xoopit. (7/23/09)
  Posted 7/22/09 at 12:47pm
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  Yahoo! — Customers can now customize the Yahoo! homepage with third party applications (7/21/09)
  Posted 10/29/09 at 7:33pm
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  Yahoo! — Yahoo! launches Search Pad, which allows users to gather and share research while surfing the internet. (7/7/09)
  Posted 10/29/09 at 7:33pm
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  Yahoo! — Company Releases Yahoo! Mobile for iPhone(TM) and Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone (6/10/09)
  Posted 10/29/09 at 7:33pm
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  Yahoo! — Yahoo Makes Super Strategic Investment In Indian 411 Service (12/19/08)
  Posted 12/24/08 at 8:08pm
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  Yahoo! — CBS and Yahoo in Web video sharing deal (6/4/08)
  Posted 7/31/08 at 11:44am
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  Yahoo! acquired Inquisitor. (5/9/08)
  Posted 5/9/08 at 3:10pm
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  Yahoo! acquired Indextools. (4/9/08)
  Posted 7/18/08 at 1:16pm
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  Yahoo! invested in Vlingo. (4/2/08)
  Posted 4/10/08 at 7:12am
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  Yahoo! invested in Bharat Matrimony. (2/5/08)
  Posted 6/19/08 at 4:18pm
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  Yahoo! acquired FoxyTunes for $40M. (2/4/08)
  Posted 4/5/08 at 1:30pm
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  Yahoo! acquired Maven Networks for $160M. (1/31/08)
  Posted 2/12/08 at 10:28am

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8. Breaking: Yahoo Acquires Zimbra For $350 million in Cash (techcrunch.com) []
9. Yahoo Acquires Rivals for $100 million (techcrunch.com) []
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14. Yahoo Acquires AdInterax Rich Media Advertising Company (blog.searchenginewatch.com) []
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69. Microsoft and Yahoo change the search landscape (yhoo.client.shareholder.com) []
70. ADDING MULTIMEDIA New Yahoo! Homepage Lets People Make the Web Their Own (yhoo.client.shareholder.com) []
71. Yahoo! Unveils Search Pad, Your Online Personal Research Assistant (yhoo.client.shareholder.com) []
72. Yahoo! Mobile for Web Launches Across More Than 300 Devices Around the World (yhoo.client.shareholder.com) []