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Yahoo! was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were electrical engineering graduates at Stanford University when they created a website named "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web".^[1]

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Ajax (programming)

Ajax (also AJAX; short for "'''A'''synchronous '''J'''avaScript and '''X'''ML" or "Asynchronous JavaScript transfer (x-fer)") is a set of web development techniques that uses various web technologies on the client-side to create asynchronous web applications.

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Alfred Amoroso

Alfred J. Amoroso (born 1950) is an American board member and former chairman of Yahoo!.

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All Things Digital

AllThingsD.com was a US online publication that specialized in technology and startup company news, analysis and coverage.

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AlltheWeb

AlltheWeb (sometimes referred to as FAST or FAST Search) was an Internet search engine that made its debut in mid-1999 and was closed in 2011.

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Altaba

Altaba Inc. was a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company based in New York City that was formed from the remains of the first incarnation of Yahoo! Inc. after Verizon had acquired old Yahoo's Internet business. History of Yahoo! and Altaba are yahoo!.

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AltaVista

AltaVista was a web search engine established in 1995. History of Yahoo! and AltaVista are history of the Internet.

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American Heritage (magazine)

American Heritage is a magazine dedicated to covering the history of the United States for a mainstream readership.

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Andrei Broder

Andrei Zary Broder (born April 12, 1953) is a distinguished scientist at Google.

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AOL

AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City, and a brand marketed by Yahoo! Inc. The service traces its history to an online service known as PlayNET. History of Yahoo! and AOL are yahoo!.

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Autodesk

Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational software corporation that provides software products and services for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, education, and entertainment industries.

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Automattic

Automattic Inc. is an American global distributed company which was founded in August 2005 and is most notable for WordPress.com (a freemium blogging service), as well as its contributions to WordPress (an open source blogging software).

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Backronym

A backronym is an acronym formed from an already existing word by expanding its letters into the words of a phrase.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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BBC News Online

BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production.

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Blake Irving

Blake Irving is the American former Chief Executive Officer and Board Director of GoDaddy.

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BT Group

BT Group plc (formerly British Telecom) is a British multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered in London, England.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Carl Icahn

Carl Celian Icahn (born February 16, 1936) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist.

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Carol Bartz

Carol Ann Bartz (born August 28, 1948) is an American business executive, former president and CEO of the internet services company Yahoo!, and former chairman, president, and CEO at architectural and engineering design software company Autodesk.

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Chair (officer)

The chair, also chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly.

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Chief revenue officer

A chief revenue officer (CRO) is a corporate officer (executive) responsible for all revenue generation processes in an organization.

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CNBC

CNBC is an American business news channel owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal.

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CNN Business

CNN Business (formerly CNN Money) is a financial news and information website, operated by CNN.

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Coordinated Universal Time

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary time standard globally used to regulate clocks and time.

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Daniel S. Loeb

Daniel Seth Loeb (born December 18, 1961) is an American investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist.

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Data breach

A data breach, also known as data leakage, is "the unauthorized exposure, disclosure, or loss of personal information".

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David Filo

David Robert Filo (born April 20, 1966) is an American billionaire businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with classmate Jerry Yang.

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Delicious (website)

Delicious (stylized del.icio.us) was a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks.

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Denial-of-service attack

In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to a network.

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Deseret News

The Deseret News is a multi-platform newspaper based in Salt Lake City, published by Deseret News Publishing Company, a subsidiary of Deseret Management Corporation, which is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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Digital subscriber line

Digital subscriber line (DSL; originally digital subscriber loop) is a family of technologies that are used to transmit digital data over telephone lines.

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Dot-com bubble

The dot-com bubble (or dot-com boom) was a stock market bubble that ballooned during the late-1990s and peaked on Friday, March 10, 2000. History of Yahoo! and dot-com bubble are history of the Internet.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.

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EBay

eBay Inc. (often stylized as ebay or Ebay) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that allows users to buy or view items via retail sales through online marketplaces and websites in 190 markets worldwide.

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EBSCO Industries

EBSCO Industries is an American company founded in 1944 by Elton Bryson Stephens Sr. and headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.

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EGroups

eGroups.com was an email list management website.

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Eric Schmidt

Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27, 1955) is an American businessman and former software engineer who served as the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011 and as the company's executive chairman from 2011 to 2015.

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Excite (web portal)

Excite is an American website (historically a web portal) operated by IAC that provides outsourced internet content such as a metasearch engine, with outsourced weather and news content on the main page.

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Federation (information technology)

A federation is a group of computing or network providers agreeing upon standards of operation in a collective fashion.

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Firefox

Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. History of Yahoo! and Firefox are history of the Internet.

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Flickr

Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting service, as well as an online community, founded in Canada and headquartered in the United States.

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Fortune 500

The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune magazine that ranks 500 of the largest United States corporations by total revenue for their respective fiscal years.

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GeoCities

GeoCities, later Yahoo! GeoCities, was a web hosting service that allowed users to create and publish websites for free and to browse user-created websites by their theme or interest, active from 1994 to 2009.

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Glitch

A glitch is a short-lived technical fault, such as a transient one that corrects itself, making it difficult to troubleshoot.

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Gmail

Gmail is the email service provided by Google.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).

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Google Labs

Google Labs is an incubator created by Google to test and publicly demonstrate new projects.

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Google Talk

Google Talk was an instant messaging service that provided both text and voice communication.

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Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

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Hierarchy

A hierarchy (from Greek:, from, 'president of sacred rites') is an arrangement of items (objects, names, values, categories, etc.) that are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another.

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History of AT&T

The history of AT&T dates back to the invention of the telephone.

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History of the Internet

The history of the Internet has its origin in the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks.

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HTTP cookie

HTTP cookies (also called web cookies, Internet cookies, browser cookies, or simply cookies) are small blocks of data created by a web server while a user is browsing a website and placed on the user's computer or other device by the user's web browser.

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Hulu

Hulu (styled hulu in its logo) is an American subscription streaming media and content hub within the Disney+ streaming service owned by The Walt Disney Company.

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Incorporation (business)

Incorporation is the formation of a new corporation.

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Initial public offering

An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors.

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Inktomi

Inktomi Corporation was an American Internet service provider (ISP) software developer based in Foster City, California.

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Intellectual property

Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect.

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Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated as IE or MSIE) is a retired series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft that were used in the Windows line of operating systems. History of Yahoo! and Internet Explorer are history of the Internet.

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Internet forum

An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.

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Jerry Yang

Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang (born Yang Chih-Yuan; November 6, 1968) is an American billionaire computer programmer, internet entrepreneur, and venture capitalist.

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".

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Kara Swisher

Kara Anne Swisher (born December 11, 1962) is an American journalist.

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Lawsuit

A lawsuit is a proceeding by one or more parties (the plaintiff or claimant) against one or more parties (the defendant) in a civil court of law.

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List of mergers and acquisitions by Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is a computer software and web search engine company founded on March 1, 1995. History of Yahoo! and List of mergers and acquisitions by Yahoo! are yahoo!.

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List of Yahoo!-owned sites and services

Yahoo!, once one of the most popular web sites in the United States, is as of September 2021 a content sub-division of the namesake company Yahoo Inc., owned by Apollo Global Management (90%) and Verizon Communications (10%). History of Yahoo! and List of Yahoo!-owned sites and services are yahoo!.

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Lycos

Lycos, Inc. (stylized as LYCOS), is a web search engine and web portal established in 1994, spun out of Carnegie Mellon University.

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Marissa Mayer

Marissa Ann Mayer (born May 30, 1975) is an American business executive and investor who served as president and chief executive officer of Yahoo! from 2012 to 2017.

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Mashable

Mashable is a news website, digital media platform and entertainment company founded by Pete Cashmore in 2004.

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Mecklermedia (formerly Internet.com LLC, Jupitermedia Inc., Mediabistro Inc. and WebMediaBrands Corporation) was a U.S.-based corporation.

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Megabyte

The megabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

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Mergers and acquisitions

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are business transactions in which the ownership of companies, business organizations, or their operating units are transferred to or consolidated with another company or business organization.

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Michael Moritz

Sir Michael Jonathan Moritz (born 12 September 1954) is a Welsh-born American billionaire venture capitalist, philanthropist, author, and former journalist.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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Microsoft Bing

Microsoft Bing, commonly referred to as Bing, is a search engine owned and operated by Microsoft.

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MSN

MSN (meaning Microsoft Network) is an American web portal and related collection of Internet services and apps for Windows and mobile devices, provided by Microsoft and launched on August 24, 1995, alongside the release of Windows 95.

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MSN Messenger

MSN Messenger (also known colloquially simply as MSN), later rebranded as Windows Live Messenger, was a cross-platform instant-messaging client developed by Microsoft.

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MSNBC

MSNBC (short for Microsoft NBC) is an American news-based television channel and website headquartered in New York City.

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NBC News

NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC.

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News Corp

News Corporation, stylized as News Corp, is an American mass media and publishing company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Oddpost

Oddpost was a pay-for webmail service that debuted in 2002.

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Old Town Canoe

Old Town Canoe Company is a historic maker of canoes in Old Town, Maine.

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Opera (web browser)

Opera is a multi-platform web browser developed by its namesake company Opera.

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PayPal

PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational financial technology company operating an online payments system in the majority of countries that support online money transfers; it serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders.

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PC World

PC World (stylized as PCWorld) is a global computer magazine published monthly by IDG.

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Prabhakar Raghavan

Prabhakar Raghavan is a business executive and former researcher of web information retrieval.

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Qwiki

Qwiki was a New York City–based startup automated video production company acquired by Yahoo! on July 2, 2013 for a reported $50 million.

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Raghu Ramakrishnan

Raghu Ramakrishnan is a researcher in the areas of database and information management.

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RocketMail

RocketMail was one of the first major free webmail services.

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Rockmelt

Rockmelt is a discontinued proprietary social media web browser developed by Tim Howes and Eric Vishria based on the Google Chromium project, incorporating social media features such as Facebook chat, Twitter notifications and widgetised areas for other content providers such as YouTube and local newspapers.

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Ross Levinsohn

Ross B. Levinsohn is an American media executive who has worked in media and technology.

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Roy J. Bostock

Roy J. Bostock is an American investor, businessman who served as chairman of Yahoo! Inc. from January 2008 to May 2012.

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Scott Thompson (businessman)

Scott Thompson (born November 13, 1957) is an American businessman, and currently CEO of Tuition.io.

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Security hacker

A security hacker is someone who explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network.

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Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital is an American venture capital firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California which specializes in seed stage, early stage, and growth stage investments in private companies across technology sectors.

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A shareholder rights plan, colloquially known as a "poison pill", is a type of defensive tactic used by a corporation's board of directors against a takeover.

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SmartMoney

SmartMoney was The Wall Street Journals magazine of personal business.

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Srinija Srinivasan

Srinija Srinivasan was hired in 1995 as the fifth employee of Yahoo! by founders Jerry Yang and David Filo to "organize the content." Srinivasan left Yahoo! in 2010 while serving as a vice-president and editor-in-chief.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Steve Ballmer

Steven Anthony Ballmer (March 24, 1956) is an American businessman and investor who was the chief executive officer of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014.

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Stonehill College

Stonehill College is a private Catholic college in Easton, Massachusetts.

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Takeover

In business, a takeover is the purchase of one company (the target) by another (the acquirer or bidder).

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Terms of service

Terms of service (also known as terms of use and terms and conditions, commonly abbreviated as TOS or ToS, ToU or T&C) are the legal agreements between a service provider and a person who wants to use that service.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Third Point

Third Point is a New York-based hedge fund founded by Daniel S. Loeb in 1995.

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Thomas J. McInerney (executive)

Thomas J. McInerney is the president and CEO of Altaba, and a board member of HSN Inc., Interval Leisure Group Inc., and Match Group.

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Tim Morse

Timothy R. Morse was the CEO of Ten-X. Previously Morse was the interim CEO of the Internet services company, Yahoo!.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Times Square

Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment hub, and neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City.

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Tumblr

Tumblr (pronounced "tumbler") is a microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007 and currently owned by American company Automattic.

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Upcoming

Upcoming (formerly Upcoming.org) is a social event calendar website that launched in 2003, founded by Andy Baio.

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URL

A uniform resource locator (URL), colloquially known as an address on the Web, is a reference to a resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it.

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USA Today

USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.

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Verizon

Verizon Communications Inc., is an American telecommunications company headquartered in New York City.

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Voice over IP

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), also called IP telephony, is a method and group of technologies for voice calls for the delivery of voice communication sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet.

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Wall Street

Wall Street is a street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City.

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Walmart

Walmart Inc. (formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores in the United States, headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas.

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Warner Media, LLC (doing business as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned by AT&T.

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Web 2.0

Web 2.0 (also known as participative (or participatory) web and social web) refers to websites that emphasize user-generated content, ease of use, participatory culture, and interoperability (i.e., compatibility with other products, systems, and devices) for end users.

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A web banner or banner ad is a form of advertising on the World Wide Web delivered by an ad server.

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Web hosting service

A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that hosts websites for clients, i.e. it offers the facilities required for them to create and maintain a site and makes it accessible on the World Wide Web.

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Web portal

A web portal is a specially designed website that brings information from diverse sources, like emails, online forums and search engines, together in a uniform way.

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Webjay

Webjay was a web-based playlist service launched in early 2004.

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Wiley (publisher)

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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Yahoo!

Yahoo! (styled yahoo! in its logo) is an American web services provider.

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Yahoo! 360°

Yahoo! 360° was a social networking and personal communication portal operated by Yahoo! made available in 2005.

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Yahoo! Consumer group

The Yahoo! Consumer group is a group included in Yahoo!’s reorganization under CEO Scott Thompson. History of Yahoo! and Yahoo! Consumer group are yahoo!.

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Yahoo! data breaches

In 2013 and 2014, the American web services company Yahoo was subjected to two of the largest data breaches on record.

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Yahoo! Finance

Yahoo! Finance is a media property that is part of the Yahoo! network. History of Yahoo! and Yahoo! Finance are yahoo!.

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Yahoo! Games

Yahoo! Games was a section of the Yahoo! website, launched on March 31, 1998, in which Yahoo! users could play games either with other users or by themselves. History of Yahoo! and Yahoo! Games are yahoo!.

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Yahoo! Groups

Yahoo! Groups was a free-to-use system of electronic mailing lists offered by Yahoo!. History of Yahoo! and Yahoo! Groups are yahoo!.

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Yahoo! Japan

is a Japanese web portal.

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Yahoo! Labs

Yahoo! Labs served as Yahoo!'s research arm, aiming to develop research in technologies to be used within the company. History of Yahoo! and Yahoo! Labs are yahoo!.

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Yahoo! Mail

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. History of Yahoo! and Yahoo! Mail are yahoo!.

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Yahoo! Messenger

Yahoo! Messenger (sometimes abbreviated Y!M) was an advertisement-supported instant messaging client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo!.

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Yahoo! Music

Yahoo! Music was a brand under which Yahoo! provided music services including Internet radio, a digital music store, music streaming service, media player software, and original programming. History of Yahoo! and Yahoo! Music are yahoo!.

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Yahoo! Native

Yahoo! Native (formerly known as Yahoo! Advertising, Yahoo! Search Marketing and Yahoo! Gemini) is a native "Pay per click" Internet advertising service provided by Yahoo. History of Yahoo! and Yahoo! Native are yahoo!.

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Yahoo Widgets is a discontinued free application platform for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, specifically Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.

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Yet another

A naming convention as a form of computer humour especially among playful programmers, yet another is often abbreviated ya, Ya, or YA in the prefix of an acronym or backronym.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Yahoo!

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History of Yahoo!, the Glossary

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See also

History of Silicon Valley

History of companies of the United States

History of computer companies

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