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Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Basic timeline of Yahoo!

This post is a basic timeline of Yahoo!. There are 19 events listed below chronologically.

Jerry Yang and David Filo found Yahoo! (1994)
Yahoo! Directory (1994)
Yahoo! Search (1995)
Publicly traded (1996)
Yahoo! News (1996)
Yahoo! Finance (1997)
Yahoo! Mail (1997)
Yahoo! Sports (1997)
Yahoo! Messenger (1998)
Yahoo! Games (1998)
GeoCities is acquired (1999)
LAUNCH Media (Yahoo! Music) is acquired (2001)
Flickr is acquired (2005)
40% of Alibaba is acquired (2005)
Carol Bartz becomes CEO (2009)
Marissa Mayer becomes CEO (2012)
Alibaba equity is sold (2012)
Yahoo! acquires Tumblr (2013)
Verizon purchases Yahoo! for $4.8 billion (2017)

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