Yahoo!

1. “THE HISTORY OF
YAHOO!”Started - Stanford University.
Founded - January 1994
CEO - Marissa Mayer
Founder(s) - Jerry Yang and
David Filo

2. Electrical
Engineering graduate
students when
they created a website
named "Jerry and David's
Guide to the World Wide
Web".

3. JERRY YANG
(Born on November 6, 1968 in Taipei) is a
Taiwanese American Internet
entrepreneur and programmer. He is the
co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo!
Inc.

4. DAVID FILO
(Born April 20, 1966 Wisconsin) is an
American businessman and the co-
founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang. His
Filo Server Program, written in the C
programming language.

5. MARISSA ANN MAYER
(Born May 30, 1975) is an American
business executive and computer scientist,
currently serving as the president and Chief
Executive Officer of Yahoo!

6. WHY YAHOO WAS CREATED?
Their purpose of building the website is to organize all
the websites found in the net.
Their personal intention is to save and follow useful
websites.

7. HOW DID THEY GET THE NAME YAHOO?
YAHOO! – “rude, unsophisticated, uncouth.”

8. GROWTH OF YAHOO!(1997–1999)
In the late 1990s, Yahoo!, MSN, Lycos, Excite and other
web portals were growing rapidly.
On March 8, 1997 - Yahoo! Mail.
January 1999, Yahoo! acquired web hosting provider
GeoCities.
On March 8, 1998 - Yahoo! Messenger.

9. DOT-COM BUBBLE (2000–2001)
January 3, 2000 - Yahoo! stock closed at an all-time high
of $118.75 a share. Yahoo! Japan
February 7, 2000 - yahoo.com was brought to a halt for
a few hours.
June 26, 2000, Yahoo! and Google signed an agreement.
September 26, 2001 - Yahoo! stock closed

10. POST DOT-COM BUBBLE (2002–2005)
June 3, 2002 - Dialup service.
February 18, 2004 - Yahoo! dropped Google-powered
results.
February 2005 - Yahoo! Widgets
August 23, 2005 - DSL Service

11. October 13, 2005 - Yahoo! Messenger and MSN
Messenger would become interoperable.
February 2005 - Yahoo! Launch became Yahoo! Music

12. YAHOO! (2006–2008)
In early 2006 - test a new version of the Yahoo!
homepage.
On August 27, 2007 - new version of Yahoo! Mail.
February 2008 - Yahoo! acquired Cambridge,
Massachusetts-based Maven Networks.

13. ACQUISITION ATTEMP BY MICROSOFT
February 1, 2008 - Microsoft made an unsolicited
takeover bid to buy Yahoo!
February 11, 2008 - Yahoo! reject Microsoft's offer.
July 29, 2009 - Yahoo! and Microsoft will improve the
Web search experience.

14. Carol Bartz era (2009–2011)
-(July 2009) Microsoft and Yahoo! agreed to a
deal.
-(July 21 2009) launched a new version of its front
page Metro.
Marissa Mayer era (2012–present)
-May 19, 2013 Tumblr.
- August 7, 2013 The final version of the new
logo.

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REFERENCES:
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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Yahoo!
• http://www.knowswhy.com/why-was-yahoo-created/
• https://www.google.com.ph/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=pXh4V5j
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