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Yahoo is an American web services provider that offers a web portal, search engine, email, news, finance, sports and more. Learn about its founding, expansion, acquisitions, rejections, controversies and current status.
A small business is a type of corporation, partnership, or sole proprietorship that has a small number of employees and/or less annual revenue than a regular-sized business or corporation. The qualifications vary depending on the country and industry, and small businesses can be classified according to different methods, such as number of employees, annual sales, assets, or profits.
Yahoo!, once one of the most popular web sites in the United States, is as of September 2021 a content sub-division of the namesake company Yahoo Inc., owned by Apollo Global Management (90%) and Verizon Communications (10%). It has offered a wide range of online sites and services since its inception in 1994, a majority of which are now defunct.
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 ...
The company is headquartered in Manhattan, New York. [15] As of December 2019, the company employed about 10,350 people. [2] [16]A year after the completion of the AOL acquisition, Verizon announced a $4.8 billion deal for Yahoo!'s core Internet business, to invest in the Internet company's search, news, finance, sports, video, emails and Tumblr products. [17]
RTML is a proprietary programming language used by Yahoo! for its web hosting services. It originated at Viaweb, a company founded by Paul Graham and Robert T. Morris, and is named after the latter.
Marissa Mayer is an American business executive and investor who served as president and CEO of Yahoo from 2012 to 2017. She was also a long-time executive and key spokesperson for Google, where she led various products and initiatives, such as Google Search, Google Images, and Google AdWords.
Scott Thompson is an American businessman and former CEO of Yahoo!, PayPal, and ShopRunner. He resigned from Yahoo! in 2012 after a controversy over his academic credentials and a lawsuit against Facebook.