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  2. History of Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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    History of Yahoo! Yahoo! started at Stanford University. [1] It was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were electrical engineering graduates when they created a website named "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web". The Guide was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable ...

  3. Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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    Yahoo! ( / ˈjɑːhuː /, styled yahoo! in its logo) [4] [5] is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon Communications .

  4. Criticism of Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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    On May 25, 2006, Yahoo!'s image search was criticized for bringing up sexually explicit images even when SafeSearch was on. This was discovered by a teacher who was intending to use the service with a class to search for "www". Yahoo!'s response to this was, "Yahoo! is aware of this issue and is working to resolve it as quickly as possible".

  5. Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources - Wikipedia

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    If your source is not listed here, it only means that it has not been the subject of repeated community discussion. That may be because the source is a stellar source, and we simply never needed to talk about it because it is so obviously reliable, [a] or it could mean the source is so obviously poor it never merited discussion.

  6. Yahoo! News - Wikipedia

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    Yahoo! News is a news website that originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo!. The site was created by Yahoo! software engineer Brad Clawsie in August 1996. Articles originally came from news services such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Fox News, Al Jazeera, ABC News, USA Today, CNN and BBC News . In 2000, Yahoo!

  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.

  8. Portal:Current events - Wikipedia

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    Armed conflicts and attacks. Russian invasion of Ukraine. 2024 Kharkiv offensive, Kharkiv strikes. At least 20 people are injured when Russian airstrikes hit a residential building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters) Ukraine pulls back from positions near Lukyantsi and Vovchansk in Kharkiv Oblast.

  9. Right Now (Van Halen song) - Wikipedia

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    The song has been used numerous times by U.S. political candidates. On August 29, 2008 during a campaign rally in Ohio, after Senator John McCain 's announcement of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate and her remarks, this song was played over the sound system. [20] Band members reportedly disagreed about its use at the McCain rally ...