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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.
The original incarnation of Yahoo!Inc. [3] was an American multinational technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995.
Yahoo! Mail (also written as Yahoo Mail) is an email service offered by the American company Yahoo, Inc. The service is free for personal use, with an optional monthly fee for additional features. Business email was previously available with the Yahoo! Small Business brand, before it transitioned to Verizon Small Business Essentials in early ...
Google News is a news aggregator service developed by Google.It presents a continuous flow of links to articles organized from thousands of publishers and magazines. Google News is available as an app on Android, iOS, and the Web.
In June 2005, the UAE-based private equity house Abraaj Capital purchased 40% of the company shares in a $5 million deal. [4] The rationale for such an acquisition (according to Abraaj's website [citation needed]) was that Maktoob has a large user base (claimed to be more than 4 million) and, according to marketing literature, "a dominant online payment option cashU and a strong brand name.
On April 23, 2009, Yahoo! announced that it would be terminating its United States version of GeoCities, and stopped accepting new registrations, though the existing GeoCities accounts remained active. [6] During late June 2009, Yahoo! updated the GeoCities home page to indicate: "GeoCities is closing on October 26, 2009."
New York police have arrested one of two people they suspect of taking and crashing an empty subway train. The person arrested, a 17-year-old girl, is charged with criminal mischief over the ...
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."