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In September 2016, The New York Times reported that Yahoo's security team, led by Alex Stamos, had pressed for Yahoo to adopt end-to-end encryption sometime between 2014 and 2015, but this had been resisted by Jeff Bonforte, Yahoo's senior vice president, "because it would have hurt Yahoo's ability to index and search message data". [86]
In the end, Yahoo! acquired Four11 for $96 million. The purpose behind acquiring Four11 was the company's RocketMail webmail service, which launched in 1997. Yahoo! announced the acquisition on October 8, 1997, [ 10 ] close to the time that Yahoo!
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. The ...
By the end of January 2010, the number of registered users has increased to 1,500,000. [citation needed] In May 2009, while the service was still in Beta stage of development, Yahoo! announced that Yahoo! 360° service will be officially closed on July 13, 2009 as Yahoo! developers aimed to "focus their efforts on the new profile on Yahoo". [9]
By the end of January 2010, the number of registered users has increased to 1,500,000. [citation needed] In May 2009, while the service was still in Beta stage of development, Yahoo! announced that Yahoo! 360° service will be officially closed on July 13, 2009 as Yahoo! developers aimed to "focus their efforts on the new profile on Yahoo". [9]
On May 20, 2013, it was announced that Yahoo and Tumblr had reached an agreement for Yahoo!Inc. to acquire Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash. [13] [14] Many of Tumblr's users were unhappy with the news, causing some to start a petition, achieving nearly 170,000 signatures. [15]
June 1998: Together with the ymail.com domain name, Four11's Rocketmail is incorporated into Yahoo! Mail. [7]June 8, 1998: Yahoo! acquires Viaweb, co-founded by Paul Graham, for $49 million and transforms it into Yahoo!
On April 5, 2021, an announcement was made that Yahoo! Answers would be shutting down on May 4, 2021, [4] [5] [6] with questions and answers no longer being postable after April 20, 2021, and questions and answers stored on the site being deleted after June 30, 2021.