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Yahoo! is a leading global internet brand and one of the most visited internet destination worldwide.
It was founded by David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in January 1994.
Initially the name was “Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web” but was renamed as Yahoo in April 1994. Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle." In April 1995, Yahoo! Was funded with an initial investment of nearly $2 million USD by Sequoia Capital. Yahoo! launched a highly-successful IPO in April 1996 with a total of 49 employees. The company was valued at $850 million.
On 8 March 1997, Yahoo! acquired online communications company Four11. Four11's webmail service, Rocketmail, became Yahoo! Mail.
Today, Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet communications, commerce and media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services to more than 345 million individuals each month worldwide.
Yahoo! Continues to maintain a strong brand and has evolved into a full-fledged search engine by acquiring existing search engine technology in mid 2003.
Brief history of Yahoo!
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Brief history of Yahoo!
Yahoo! is a leading global internet brand and one of the most visited internet destination worldwide.
It was founded by David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in January 1994.
Initially the name was “Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web” but was renamed as Yahoo in April 1994. Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle." In April 1995, Yahoo! Was funded with an initial investment of nearly $2 million USD by Sequoia Capital. Yahoo! launched a highly-successful IPO in April 1996 with a total of 49 employees. The company was valued at $850 million.
On 8 March 1997, Yahoo! acquired online communications company Four11. Four11's webmail service, Rocketmail, became Yahoo! Mail.
Today, Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet communications, commerce and media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services to more than 345 million individuals each month worldwide.
Yahoo! Continues to maintain a strong brand and has evolved into a full-fledged search engine by acquiring existing search engine technology in mid 2003.
Brief history of Yahoo!
- Mark Zuckerberg Trying For Worldwide Connection
Mark's Words:-"I'm excited to announce we’ve completed construction of our first full scale aircraft, Aquila, as part of our Internet.org effort.Aquila is a solar powered unmanned plane that beams down internet connectivity from the...
- General Dynamics In History
This U.S company in now the fifth-largest defense contractor based on 2012 revenues, emerging from a number of mergers and takeovers. General Dynamics traces its origin to John Philip Holland's Holland Torpedo Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut....
- History Of Nokia
Nokia is a Finnish company that since 1995 has become a global leader in the production of cellular phone. For most of its history, Nokia grew as a conglomerate of three very different businesses of which the first was started in the town of Nokia, named...
- History Of Nescafe
In 1901, Sartori Kato began introducing the American public to powdered coffee at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. In Guatemala in 1906, an Englishman named Washington observed the formation of coffee powder on the spout of a silver urn....
- Early History Of Hy-vee
Hy-Vee was founded in 1930 by Charles Hyde and David Vredenburg, who opened a small general store in Beaconsfield, Iowa. For a few years both founders continued to run separate stores and stores with other partners, while also running some stores together....