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April 6: Yahoo announces that Yahoo Answers will close its doors in May 2021. [161] May 3: Apollo Global Management, Inc enters an agreement with Verizon to acquire Verizon Media (Yahoo! and AOL Brands) for $5 billion. The new company will be known as Yahoo at the close of the deal. [162]
In 1998, Yahoo replaced AltaVista as the crawler-based search engine underlying the Directory with Inktomi. [29] Yahoo's two biggest acquisitions were made in 1999: Geocities for $3.6 billion [30] and Broadcast.com for $5.7 billion. [31] Its stock price skyrocketed during the dot-com bubble, closing at an all-time high of $118.75/share on ...
The first data breach occurred on Yahoo servers in August 2013 [1] and affected all three billion user accounts. [2] [3] Yahoo announced the breach on December 14, 2016. [4] Marissa Mayer, who was CEO of Yahoo at the time of the breach, testified before Congress in 2017 that Yahoo had been unable to determine who perpetrated the 2013 breach. [5]
[73] [74] For six years, Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Live Messenger users in possession of up-to-date software could communicate across the two networks. Instant messaging as well as transmission of emoticons, nudges, offline messages, presence information and personal status messages were supported. [75] On December 14, 2012, the ...
The Nintendo Network [a] was an online service formerly ran by Nintendo that provided free online functionality for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U systems and their compatible games.
Yahoo 360° was a blogging/social networking beta service launched in March 2005 by Yahoo and closed on July 13, 2009. [111] Yahoo Mash beta was another social service closed after one year of operation prior to leaving beta status. [112] Yahoo Photos was shut down on September 20, 2007, in favor of integration with Flickr.
Kerbal Space Program 2 is a space flight simulation video game developed by Intercept Games and published by Private Division. It is the sequel to 2015's Kerbal Space Program and was released on early access on February 24, 2023, for Windows. Development as of now is halted after the closing of Intercept Games.
Yahoo! announced the acquisition on October 8, 1997, [10] close to the time that Yahoo! Mail was launched. [ 11 ] Yahoo! chose acquisition rather than internal platform development, because, as Healy said, "Hotmail was growing at thousands and thousands users per week.