Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Verizon Communications Inc. (/ v ə ˈ r aɪ z ən / və-RY-zən), is an American telecommunications company headquartered in New York City. [3] It is the world's second-largest telecommunications company (after China Mobile) by revenue and its mobile network is the largest wireless carrier in the United States, with 114.8 million subscribers as of March 31, 2024.
Yoo-hoo was sold again in 1981 to a group of private investors, which owned the brand until 1989, when it was sold to the French conglomerate Pernod Ricard. In 2001, Pernod Ricard sold Yoo-hoo to Cadbury Schweppes , with production responsibilities falling to CS's Mott's group and marketing and advertising responsibilities under Snapple .
The American frontiersman Daniel Boone, who often used terms from Gulliver's Travels, claimed that he killed a hairy giant that he called a Yahoo. [4] The fictitious country of Yahoo was the setting for Bertolt Brecht's 1936 play Round Heads and Pointed Heads. Yahoo was used as a cry of elation in a song from the 1961 Hindi film Junglee. [5]
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.
James Lanzone (born January 20, 1971) is an American businessman and the CEO of Yahoo Inc. Previously, he was CEO of Tinder.He is also the former president and CEO of CBS Interactive, a top 10 Internet property that operated key websites including CBS All Access, CNET, GameSpot, CBS News, Metacritic, CBS Sports, 247 Sports, Scout Media, MaxPreps.com, TVGuide.com, Last.fm and many others.
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 Ne
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.
Yahoo Finance is a media property that is part of the Yahoo network. It provides financial news, data and commentary including stock quotes , press releases , financial reports , and original content.