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2. 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."

3. 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.

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   Business Insider. Donald Trump owns a multi-million-dollar fleet of VIP aircraft, including his prized Boeing 757 airliner. Take a look at his private collection. Donald Trump has a history of ...

5. Yahoo! Native - Wikipedia

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   Yahoo! inherited the search advertising business when it purchased Overture (previously named Goto.com). Until Panama, Yahoo! search continued to operate the original simplistic algorithm which ranked text ads according to how much advertisers bid for the keyword searched by the user. Meanwhile, Google operates under a more sophisticated model ...

6. Yahoo! Groups - Wikipedia

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   Yahoo! Groups was a free-to-use system of electronic mailing lists offered by Yahoo! . Prior to February 2020, Yahoo! Groups was one of the world's largest collections of online discussion boards. It allowed members to subscribe to various groups, read subscribed discussions online, view and share photos, files and bookmarks within a group ...

7. Marissa Mayer - Wikipedia

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   Marissa Mayer. Marissa Ann Mayer ( / ˈmaɪ.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. She was a long-time executive, usability leader and key spokesperson for Google (employee No. 20).

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   Provides phone numbers, addresses, reviews, and additional information for businesses in the United States.

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