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List of mergers and acquisitions by Yahoo! Yahoo! Inc. is a computer software and web search engine company founded on March 1, 1995. [1] The company is a public corporation and its headquarters is located in Sunnyvale, California. [2] It was founded by Stanford University graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo in 1994. [3]
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]
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The yahoo.com domain was created on January 18, 1995. [6] Yahoo! grew rapidly through 1990–1999 and diversified into a web portal, followed by numerous high-profile acquisitions. The company's stock price rose rapidly during the dot-com bubble and closed at an all-time high of US$118.75 in 2000. [7]
Yahoo! Profile / Yahoo Pulse - A directory of Yahoo users with their personal information. Yahoo! Publisher Network - An advertising network that only accepted US based publishers; shut down on April 30, 2010. [60] Rocketmail - An email service acquired in 1997. Shut down but users were able to use an @rocketmail.com email address. [61] Yahoo!
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Mail (also written as Yahoo Mail) is an email service offered by the American company Yahoo, Inc. The service is free for personal use, with an optional monthly fee for additional features. Business email was previously available with the Yahoo! Small Business brand, before it transitioned to Verizon Small Business Essentials in early 2022.
August 27, 2007: Yahoo! adds SMS features to email service—users can also check travel details directly from within an email. [ 74 ] September 4, 2007: Yahoo! announces acquisition of BlueLithium , a company founded by industry pioneer Gurbaksh Chahal .