Timeline of events for Yahoo!

Timeline of major events for Yahoo!.

* January 1994: Jerry Yang and David Filo create "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" while studying at Stanford University.
* April 1994: "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" is renamed "Yahoo"
* March 1995: Yahoo is incorporated.
* 1995: Ziff Davis Inc. launches the magazine "Yahoo! Internet Life", initially as "ZD Internet Life". The magazine was meant to accompany and complement the website.
* April 12 1996: Yahoo has Initial public offering, closing at $33.00, up 270% from the IPO price, after peaking at $43.00 for the day.
* June 8 1998: Yahoo acquires Viaweb, co-founded by Paul Graham, which becomes Yahoo Store.
* October 12 1998: Yahoo acquires direct marketing company Yoyodyne Entertainment, Inc. [ [http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,15555,00.html http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,15555,00.html] "Wired.com" ]
* January 28 1999: Yahoo acquires Geocities.
* April 1 1999: Yahoo acquires Broadcast.com.
* January 3 2000: Yahoo stocks close at an all-time high of $475.00 (pre-split price) a share. The day before, it hit an intra-day high of $500.13 (pre-split price).
* January 19 2000: At the height of the Dot-com tech bubble, shares in Yahoo Japan became the first stocks in Japanese history to trade at over ¥100,000,000, reaching a price of 101.4 million yen ($962,140 at that time). [ [http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/print.php/289851 http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/print.php/289851] "Internetnews" ]
* February 7 2000: Yahoo.com was brought to a halt for a few hours as it was the victim of a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/635444.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/635444.stm] "news.bbc.co.uk" ] [ [http://news.com.com/2100-1023-236621.html?legacy=cnet http://news.com.com/2100-1023-236621.html?legacy=cnet] "news.bbc.com" ] On the next day, its shares rose about $16, or 4.5 percent as the failure was blamed on hackers rather than on an internal glitch, unlike a fault with eBay earlier that year.
* May 22 2000: A French judge LICRA_v._Yahoo ordered Yahoo to ban Nazi-related sites from its search engine, and to stop to act as an intermediary on bids for objects with racist overtones. Yahoo denied the French court's jurisdiction over a United States based company, and the tribunal's requests were finally abandoned in 2003. Yahoo eventually quit voluntarily trading on Nazi and Ku Klux Klan bibelots. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/760782.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/760782.stm] News.bbc.co.uk" Retrieved on 05-01-07 ] [ [http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,36518,00.html http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,36518,00.html] "Wired.com" Retrieved on 05-01-07 ]
* June 28 2000: Yahoo acquires eGroups.
* March 7 2001: Yahoo CEO Tim Koogle announces he will step down and remain only a company board member.
* April 17 2001: Terry Semel announced as the new Yahoo CEO.
* September 26 2001 Yahoo stocks close at an all-time low of $8.11. The day before, it hit an intra-day low of $8.02 (both figures are pre-split prices).
* December 27 2001: Yahoo acquires HotJobs.
* June 3, 2002: SBC and Yahoo Launch National Co-Branded Dial Service -- [http://www.sbc.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=20046 Press Release]
*December 2002: Yahoo Inc. starts acquisition of Inktomi Web search engine
* July, 2003: BT Openworld announces an alliance with Yahoo -- [http://www.groupbt.com/News/Articles/ShowArticle.cfm?ArticleID=fa2aec1b-0336-4b33-8d7e-85900c10ea33 Press Release]
*July 2003, Yahoo acquires Overture Services, Inc.
* January 19 2004: Yahoo Inc. announces the formation of [http://research.yahoo.com Yahoo Research Labs] , a research organization focusing on the invention of new technologies and solutions for Yahoo. Yahoo's Head and Principal Scientist, Dr. Gary William Flake, leads the new organization. Dr. Flake has since left the company and now works at Microsoft.
* February 19 2004: Yahoo drops Google-powered results, launching its own web-crawling algorithm and using its own site index after it had used Google's results for a long time.
* March 2004: Yahoo launches its own search engine technology.
* March 1 2004: Yahoo announces (as cited in the "New York Times" article listed in the "References" section) that it will practice paid inclusion for its search service. However, it also announced it would continue to rely mainly on a free web crawl for most of its search engine content.
* March 25 2004: Yahoo acquires the European shopping search engine Kelkoo.
* July 9, 2004 Yahoo acquires email provider Oddpost. [ [http://oddpost.com/yahoo.html http://oddpost.com/yahoo.html] "Oddpost.com" Retrieved on 05-02-07 ]
* November 4 2004: Yahoo acquires game platform provider Stadeon.
* December 15 2004: Yahoo launches beta version of its video search engine.
* February 9 2005 Yahoo Launch is changed to Yahoo Music, which still provides free music.
* February 15 2005 Yahoo establishes its European Headquarters in Dublin, Ireland with the creation of 400 new jobs. [ [http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Yahoo_chooses_Dublin_as_location_of_new_European_Headquarters http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Yahoo_chooses_Dublin_as_location_of_new_European_Headquarters] "En.wikinews.org" Retrieved on 05-03-07 ]
* February 28 2005 Yahoo launches a [http://developer.yahoo.net/ developer network] giving an API to most of its search verticals.
* March 2 2005 Yahoo completes 10 years of corporate existence. To celebrate this, it gives free ice cream coupons at Baskin Robbins to its users.
* March 20, 2005 Yahoo acquires photo sharing service Flickr.
* March 29, 2005 Yahoo launch blogging and social networking service Yahoo! 360°
* April 7, 2005 Wikimedia Foundation announces Yahoo support. [ [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_announces_Yahoo_support http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_announces_Yahoo_support] "Wikimediafoundation.org" Retrieved on 05-02-07 ]
* May 26, 2005 Yahoo announces its new PhotoMail service
* June 14, 2005 Yahoo acquires VoIP provider DialPad Communications.
* July 15, 2005 Yahoo announces Yahoo! Research Berkeley
* July 25, 2005 Yahoo acquires Konfabulator
* August 11, 2005 Yahoo acquires 40% of Alibaba.com for $1 billion US, and Alibaba will take over operation of Yahoo China. [ [http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,68497,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_5 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,68497,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_5] "Wired.com" Retrieved on 05-02-07 ]
* August 23, 2005: Verizon and Yahoo Launch Integrated DSL Service -- [ [http://newscenter.verizon.com/proactive/newsroom/release.vtml?id=92803 Press Release http://newscenter.verizon.com/proactive/newsroom/release.vtml?id=92803 Press Release] "Newscenter.verizon.com" ]
* September 7, 2005. Yahoo supplies information to People's Republic of China which then jails reporter Shi Tao, age 37, for 10 years. Yahoo states that they were following Chinese law. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4221538.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4221538.stm] "News.bbc.co.uk" ]
* October 4, 2005 Yahoo purchases online social event calendar Upcoming.org. [ [http://www.waxy.org/archive/2005/10/04/yahoo_an.shtml http://www.waxy.org/archive/2005/10/04/yahoo_an.shtml] "Waxy.org" Retrieved on 05-03-07 ]
* October 17, 2005 Yahoo buys British company [http://www.whereonearth.com Whereonearth Ltd] which provides location technology.
* November 15, 2005 The sports section of [http://my.yahoo.com My Yahoo] is hacked; titles such as "selfhood + conscience" and "aesthetic freedom" link to various pages at doublereflection.org.
* December 1, 2005 - Tivo and Yahoo form a partnership where several Yahoo features can be viewed on television via the Series2 TiVO set top box. [http://www.tivo.com/cms_static/press_71.html] , [http://www.tivo.com/4.9.11.asp]
* December 8/ (US time) 9, (Australian time) 2005 Yahoo!7 announced for January 2006. [http://yahoo7.com.au Official Site]
* December 9, 2005 Yahoo acquires [http://del.icio.us del.icio.us] .
* January 9, 2006 Yahoo acquires [http://www.webjay.org webjay]
* February 12, 2006 [http://developer.yahoo.net/php/ Yahoo Developer Network PHP Center] launched.
* May 1, 2006 Yahoo launches [http://tech.yahoo.com Yahoo Tech] .
* August 31, 2006 Yahoo retires former frontpage.
* September 27, 2006 Yahoo acquires online video editing site [http://jumpcut.com Jumpcut] .
* September 29 to September 30, 2006 Yahoo hosts an Open Hack Day ( [http://hackday.org/ external site] ), featuring a musical performance by Beck
* December 5, 2006 Yahoo announces a significant re-organization, including the departure of Dan Rosensweig (COO), Lloyd Braun and John Marcom. Sue Decker is promoted from CFO, and other business unit shifts are made.
* January 8, 2007 Yahoo acquires MyBlogLog. [ [http://yodel.yahoo.com/2007/01/08/bloggers-unite-yahoo-joins-forces-with-mybloglog/ Yodel Anecdotal » Blog Archive » Bloggers unite! Yahoo! joins forces with MyBlogLog ] ]
* February 5, 2007 Yahoo launches a new search advertising system Panama. [ [http://searchengineland.com/070205-090623.php New Panama Ranking System For Yahoo Ads Launches Today ] ]
* March 1, 2007 Localised New Zealand internet portal, Yahoo!Xtra, launches. [http://nz.yahoo.com Official Site]
* April 30, 2007 Yahoo! announces acquisition of Right Media.
* June 16, 2007 Yahoo! officially retires the Yahoo! Auctions service. [auctions.yahoo.com]
* June 18, 2007 Yahoo! co-founder, Jerry Yang, replaces Terry Semel as CEO. [ [http://www.darin.cc/yahoo/yahoo-replaces-ceo-terry-semel-with-yang Yahoo CEO | Search Engine Marketing : Darin Carter ] ]
* June 20, 2007 Yahoo! agrees to acquire Rivals.com. [ [http://yodel.yahoo.com/2007/06/20/listen-up-college-sports-fans/ Yodel Anecdotal » Blog Archive » Listen up, (college) sports fans … ] ]
* June 28, 2007 Yahoo! UK/Ireland online auctions closes, Yahoo! referring instead to eBay.
* July 18, 2007 Yahoo acquires 35% stake in an Indian online ad company Tyroo Media Pvt ltd.
* August 20, 2007 Yahoo! had started to shutdown Yahoo! Photos due to the fact that Flickr is now a Yahoo property. Shutdown was completed on September 20th, 2007.
* August 27, 2007 Yahoo adds SMS features (texting), IM to e-mail
* September 4, 2007 Yahoo announces acquisition of BlueLithium, a company founded by industry pioneer Gurbaksh Chahal
* February 1, 2008 Microsoft makes $44.6 Billion dollar bid for Yahoo! [http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=291270]
* February 4, 2008 Yahoo! Acquires FoxyTunes [ [http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/080205-162949 Yahoo! Acquires FoxyTunes [SearchEngineWatch ] ]
* February 4, 2008 Yahoo! and Rhapsody Announce Strategic Partnership In Digital Music. [ [http://www.realnetworks.com/company/press/releases/2008/rhap_020408_159673265.html Yahoo! and Rhapsody Announce Strategic Partnership In Digital Music ] ]
* February 12, 2008 Yahoo! Acquires Maven Networks, Inc. [ [http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=293433 Yahoo! Acquires Maven Networks, Inc. ] ]
* February 12, 2008 Yahoo! and T-Mobile Agree to Enter Into Strategic Partnership. [ [http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=293390 Yahoo! and T-Mobile Agree to Enter Into Strategic Partnership ] ]

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