Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Jerry Yang. Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang (Chinese: 楊致遠; pinyin: Yáng Zhìyuǎn; born Yang Chih-Yuan; November 6, 1968) is an American billionaire computer programmer, internet entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc. and founding partner of AME Cloud Ventures. [1][2]
Xao " Jerry " Yang (born 1967) is an ethnic Hmong American poker player from Temecula, California and the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event champion. Yang started playing poker in 2005. [2] An amateur player at the time, Yang entered the 2007 World Series of Poker after winning a $225 satellite at the Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula. [3]
Jerry Yang and David Filo, the founders of Yahoo The Yahoo home page in 1994, when it was a directory, a search engine was added in 1995. In January 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo were electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University, when they created a website named "Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide Web".
Where have you gone, Jerry Yang? Yahoo!'s (NAS: YHOO) co-founder, onetime CEO, and public face has announced his resignation. "The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo!,"
Yahoo's (YHOO) embattled co-founder Jerry Yang is gone from the board, but for Third Point LLC, that's not good enough. The disgruntled Yahoo investor is aiming to take down company Chairman Roy ...
From January 2008 to November 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Jerry Yang joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -33.6 percent return on your investment, compared to a -7.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
June 18, 2007: Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang replaces Terry Semel as CEO. [69] June 20, 2007: Yahoo! agrees to acquire Rivals.com. [70] June 28, 2007: Yahoo! UK/Ireland online auctions closes, but the Hong Kong sites are not affected. [71] July 18, 2007: Yahoo acquires 35 percent stake in Indian online advertising company Tyroo Media Pvt Ltd. [72]
Journalist Sy Hersh has won the Pulitzer Prize, Orwell Award and George Polk Award. Phi Psi businessmen include Bank of America founder Orra E. Monnette, Dow Chemical founder Herbert Dow, PIMCO founder Bill Gross, and Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang. Three Phi Psis have served as presidents of the American Bar Association.