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Yahoo! Japan (ヤフー, Yafū) is a Japanese web portal.Its search engine was the most-visited website in Japan, nearing monopolistic status.. According to The Japan Times, as of 2012, Yahoo Japan had a footprint on the internet market in Japan.
Yahoo! Japan Corporation (ヤフー株式会社, Yafū Kabushiki-gaisha) was a Japanese web services provider. It was founded in 1996 as a joint venture between SoftBank (current SoftBank Group) and American Yahoo! Inc. Its search engine was the most-visited website in Japan, nearing monopolistic status. [2]
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 .
Jumpcut.com - A service where the uploaded photos and videos can be edited online; shut down in June 2009. [43] Kelkoo Group - A European price comparison tool that was acquired by Yahoo! in 2004 and sold in 2008. [44] [45] Yahoo! Korea was the South Korean affiliate of Yahoo!, founded in September 1997.
LY Corporation (LINEヤフー株式会社, Rain Yahū Kabushiki-gaisha, lit. 'Line Yahoo Corporation'), trading as LYC, is a Japanese internet company owned by A Holdings a joint venture between SoftBank Group of Japan, and Naver Corporation of South Korea, founded in 2023 by the merger of Z Holdings, and four subsidiaries including Line Corporation and Yahoo!
July 6, 2012: Yahoo! and Facebook settle their patent dispute. [102] July 16, 2012: Marissa Mayer is appointed CEO. [103] July 30, 2012: Levinsohn, former interim CEO, leaves Yahoo! [104] September 18, 2012: Yahoo! announced the completion of the first stage of the Alibaba share repurchase.
History of Yahoo! Yahoo! started at Stanford University. [1] It was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were Electrical Engineering graduate students 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 ...
The company's international sites are wholly owned by Yahoo, with the exception of its Japan and China sites. Yahoo holds a 34.75% minority stake in Yahoo Japan, while SoftBank holds 35.45%, 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 ...