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  2. 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 ...

  3. Art Fund - Wikipedia

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    Art Fund (formerly the National Art Collections Fund) is an independent membership-based British charity, which raises funds to aid the acquisition of artworks for the nation. It gives grants and acts as a channel for many gifts and bequests, as well as lobbying on behalf of museums and galleries and their users.

  4. The Vanguard Group - Wikipedia

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    The Vanguard Group, Inc. The Vanguard Group, Inc. (commonly known as simply Vanguard ), is an American registered investment advisor based in Malvern, Pennsylvania, with about $7.7 trillion in global assets under management, as of April 2023. [3] It is the largest provider of mutual funds and the second-largest provider of exchange-traded funds ...

  5. History of Google - Wikipedia

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    History of Google. Google was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search, which has become the most used web-based search engine. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, students at Stanford University in California, developed a search algorithm first (1996) known as "BackRub", with the help of Scott Hassan and Alan ...

  6. Google parent Alphabet delivers first-ever dividend, shares soar

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    Google parent Alphabet, flush with cash will pay its first-ever dividend joining rival Meta and other tech titans such as Apple and Microsoft. The search giant will also continue its robust stock ...

  7. 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."

  8. Citadel Securities - Wikipedia

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    Citadel Securities LLC. Citadel Securities LLC is an American market making firm headquartered in Miami. [2] [3] [4] It is one of the largest market makers in the world, [5] and is active in more than 50 countries. [6] It is the largest designated market maker on the New York Stock Exchange.

  9. Google Search - Wikipedia

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    C++ [2] Google Search (also known simply as Google or Google.com) is a search engine operated by Google. It allows users to search for information on the Internet by entering keywords or phrases. Google Search uses algorithms to analyze and rank websites based on their relevance to the search query. It is the most popular search engine worldwide.