Yahoo!

Yahoo! (/jɑːhuː/) he pūnaewele lawelawe ʻAmelika i hoʻokumu ʻia ma Sunnyvale, Kaleponi ma Ianuali 1994 e Jerry Yang a me David Filo. He lālā ʻo Yahoo! o Apollo Global Management (90%) a me Verizon (10%) mai ka makahiki 2021. I kēia manawa, hāʻawi ka hui i nā lawelawe pūnaewele he nui, me ka Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Sports a me kāna kahua hoʻolaha ʻo Yahoo Native.

He hōʻailona lōkahi (acronym) ka inoa no "Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle" a i ʻole "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". Ua koho ʻia ka inoa no ka mea, ua makemake ʻo Filo lāua ʻo Yang i ka manaʻo hoʻohenehene o "yahoo" (he kānaka maʻalea ʻole) mai ka puke Gulliver's Travels^[1].

I Ianuali 1994, ʻoiai he mau haumāna ʻenekinia uila lāua ma ke Kulanui Stanford, ua hana ʻo Jerry Yang a me David Filo i kekahi pūnaewele i kapa ʻia "Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide Web"^[2]. He papa kuhikuhi pūnaewele i hoʻonohonoho lima ʻia, ʻaʻole he papa huli ʻikepili. Ma Malaki 1994, ua hoʻololi ʻia ka inoa i "Yahoo!"^[3].

Ma ka makahiki 1995, ua loaʻa ka hui i ke kālā hoʻokumu mai Sequoia Capital. Ua komo ka hui i ka mākeke kūʻai akea ma ʻApelila 1996. Ma ka makahiki 1997, ua kūʻai ʻo Yahoo! iā RocketMail, ka mea i lilo i Yahoo! Mail. Ma ka makahiki 1999, ua kūʻai ka hui iā GeoCities no $3.6 biliona a me Broadcast.com no $5.7 biliona^[4].

Ma ka makahiki 2008, ua hōʻole ʻo Yahoo! i ka hoʻāʻo kūʻai a Microsoft no $44.6 biliona. Ma hope mai, ua emi ka waiwai o ka hui a hoʻololi pinepine i nā luna hoʻokele. Ma ka makahiki 2016, ua kūʻai ʻia ka hui e Verizon no $4.83 biliona^[5].

Hāʻawi ʻo Yahoo! i nā lawelawe like ʻole:

• Yahoo! Mail - He lawelawe leka uila
• Yahoo! Search - He mīkini huli pūnaewele
• Yahoo! News - He pūnaewele nūhou
• Yahoo! Finance - He lawelawe ʻikepili kālepa
• Yahoo! Sports - He lawelawe nūhou hāʻuki
• Yahoo! Native - He kahua hoʻolaha pūnaewele

Ma Kepakemapa 2016, ua hōʻike ʻo Yahoo! i ka ʻaihue ʻikepili ma ka makahiki 2014, e pili ana i ma luna o 500 miliona mau moʻokāki^[6]. Ma ʻOkakopa 2017, ua hōʻike ka hui ua loaʻa i nā mea ʻaihue nā ʻikepili no nā moʻokāki 3 biliona a pau^[7].

1. ↑ "What Does 'Yahoo' Stand For?". Lifewire.
2. ↑ "Yahoo celebrates 20th anniversary". Yahoo News. March 1, 2015.
3. ↑ Clark, Andrew. "How Jerry's guide to the world wide web became Yahoo". The Guardian.
4. ↑ "Yahoo buys GeoCities". CNN. January 28, 1999.
5. ↑ "Yahoo's Sale to Verizon Ends an Era for a Web Pioneer". The New York Times.
6. ↑ Perlroth, Nicole. "Yahoo Says Hackers Stole Data on 500 Million Users in 2014". The New York Times.
7. ↑ "Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3 Billion". The Wall Street Journal.

• Ka pūnaewele kūhelu o Yahoo!
• Yahoo! Finance

• Google
• Microsoft
• Verizon
• Apollo Global Management
• Mīkini huli pūnaewele
• Jerry Yang
• David Filo

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