15 Facts About Yahoo Entertainment

1.

Yahoo Entertainment was established by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s.

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Yahoo Entertainment soon became the first popular online directory and search engine on the World Wide Web.

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3.

Yahoo Entertainment began offering free e-mail from October 1997 after the acquisition of RocketMail, which was then renamed to Yahoo Entertainment Mail.

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4.

In 1998, Yahoo Entertainment replaced AltaVista as the crawler-based search engine underlying the Directory with Inktomi.

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5.

Yahoo Entertainment rejected the bid, claiming that it "substantially undervalues" the company and was not in the interest of its shareholders.

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6.

In July 2013, Yahoo Entertainment announced plans to open an office in San Francisco.

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7.

On December 12,2014, Yahoo Entertainment acquired video advertising provider BrightRoll for $583 million.

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8.

In November 2021, Yahoo Entertainment announced that it was ceasing its operations in mainland China due to an increasingly challenging business and legal environment.

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9.

On September 22,2016, Yahoo Entertainment disclosed a data breach that occurred in late 2014, in which information associated with at least 500 million user accounts, one of the largest breaches reported to date.

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10.

Yahoo Entertainment stated that hackers had utilized stolen internal software to forge HTTP cookies.

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11.

On November 30,2009, Yahoo Entertainment was criticized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for sending a DMCA notice to whistleblower website "Cryptome" for publicly posting details, prices, and procedures on obtaining private information pertaining to Yahoo Entertainment's subscribers.

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12.

Yahoo Entertainment announced television video partnerships in 2013 with Conde Nast, WWE, ABC NEWS, and CNBC.

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13.

Yahoo Entertainment entered into a 10-year collaboration in 2014, as a founding partner of Levi's Stadium, home of the San Francisco 49ers.

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14.

Yahoo Entertainment Sportsbook launched in November 2019, a collaboration with BetMGM.

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15.

In September 2021, it was announced that Yahoo Entertainment partnered with Shopify, connecting the e-commerce merchants on Yahoo Entertainment Finance, AOL and elsewhere.

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