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2. List of mergers and acquisitions by Yahoo - Wikipedia

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   Yahoo's first acquisition was the purchase of Net Controls, a web search engine company, in September 1997 for US$1.4 million. 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.

3. History of Yahoo - Wikipedia

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   When Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web was renamed to Yahoo! in 1994, 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."

4. List of mergers and acquisitions by Yahoo - Wikipedia

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   Yahoo's first acquisition was the purchase of Net Controls, a web search engine company, in September 1997 for US$1.4 million. 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.

5. Marissa Mayer - Wikipedia

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   Marissa Ann Mayer (/ ˈ m aɪ. ər /; born May 30, 1975) [4] is an American business executive and investor who served as president and chief executive officer of Yahoo! from 2012 to 2017.

6. Yahoo Query Language - Wikipedia

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   Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) is an SQL-like query language created by Yahoo! as part of their Developer Network. YQL is designed to retrieve and manipulate data from APIs through a single Web interface, thus allowing mashups that enable developers to create their own applications [1] using Yahoo! Pipes online tool.

7. Yahoo! Inc. (2017–present) - Wikipedia

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   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]