Yahoo 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 soon became the first popular online directory and search engine on the World Wide Web.
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Yahoo began offering free e-mail from October 1997 after the acquisition of RocketMail, which was then renamed to Yahoo Mail.
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In 1998, Yahoo replaced AltaVista as the crawler-based search engine underlying the Directory with Inktomi.
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Yahoo rejected the bid, claiming that it "substantially undervalues" the company and was not in the interest of its shareholders.
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In July 2013, Yahoo announced plans to open an office in San Francisco.
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On December 12,2014, Yahoo acquired video advertising provider BrightRoll for $583 million.
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In November 2021, Yahoo announced that it was ceasing its operations in mainland China due to an increasingly challenging business and legal environment.
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On September 22,2016, Yahoo 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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Yahoo stated that hackers had utilized stolen internal software to forge HTTP cookies.
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On November 30,2009, Yahoo 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's subscribers.
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Yahoo announced television video partnerships in 2013 with Conde Nast, WWE, ABC NEWS, and CNBC.
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Yahoo 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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Yahoo Sportsbook launched in November 2019, a collaboration with BetMGM.
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