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2. Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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   In 1998, Yahoo replaced AltaVista as the crawler-based search engine underlying the Directory with Inktomi. Yahoo's two biggest acquisitions were made in 1999: Geocities for $3.6 billion and Broadcast.com for $5.7 billion. Its stock price skyrocketed during the dot-com bubble, closing at an all-time high of $118.75/share on January 3, 2000 ...

3. List of Yahoo!-owned sites and services - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. Yahoo! Inc. (1995–2017) - Wikipedia

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   Inc. [3] was an American multinational technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. [4] [5] Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early internet era in the 1990s. [6] Marissa Mayer, a former Google executive, served as CEO and ...

5. History of Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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   Early history (1994–1996) Upon the April 1994 renaming of Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web to Yahoo!, Yang and Filo said that "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" was a suitable backronym for this name, but they insisted they had selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."

6. Fraudsters target small businesses with scams. Here are some ...

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   According to the Federal Trade Commission, small businesses should be on the lookout for phony invoices and unordered merchandise. Scammers send out fake invoices and hope businesses won't notice ...

7. List of mergers and acquisitions by Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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   As of April 2008, the company's largest acquisition is the purchase of Broadcast.com, an Internet radio company, for $5.7 billion, making Broadcast.com co-founder Mark Cuban a billionaire. Most of the companies acquired by Yahoo are based in the United States; 78 of the companies are from the United States, and 15 are based in a foreign country.