Yahoo History
YAHOO is an acronym for
What is Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle
This American web portal and online service provider was one of the early pioneers of the Internet in the 1990s and was (at one point) the most recognized brand on the web in the United States
What is AOL
Reach out to this team if you need help setting up or troubleshooting your equipment
What is Global Service Desk (GSD)
This AI-driven news aggregation and discovery platform was recently acquired by Yahoo
What is Artifact
Jim joined Yahoo during this year
What is 2021
These two graduate students were the founders of Yahoo
Who is Jerry Yang and David Filo
This multilingual technology blog network promotes daily coverage of gadgets and consumer electronics
What is Engadget
This team protects consumer, customer, and corporate data by using their place on the Internet to fight for our users and for the targeted, abused, and vulnerable.
What is the Paranoids (Security team)
Yahoo Sports recently announced a new partnership with one of the world’s biggest soccer platforms to create a co-branded soccer hub on the Yahoo Sports website and app
What is Yahoo Sports-One Football Hub
Our current CEO, Jim Lanzone was the previous CEO of this company, which is the most popular app for meeting new people, as well as the highest grossing non-gaming app, in the world
What is Tinder
This was the first name used by the founders before changing the name to Yahoo
What is Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web
This online news site focuses on high tech and startup companies
What is TechCrunch
Use this informational portal to stay up to date on company wide updates/news, and anything else you would need to know about being employee here at Yahoo
What is The Street
Yahoo has this many monthly users
What is 900M
Jim graduated from this undergraduate university and is an avid fan of their sports teams
What is UCLA
Yahoo was founded in this year
What is 1994
This media brand accelerates the women’s movement through stories of real-life experiences that ignite passion and action
What is Makers
This is your personal HR assistant that can get you an intelligent answer to most standard/generic HR questions–quickly
What is the HRAnswers Bot
Yahoo announces the beta launch of a new program giving writers an all-in-one platform to publish, monetize, connect and grow their businesses, by sharing stories to the Yahoo News network of *more than 185 million monthly U.S. visitors
What is Yahoo for Creators
Our current CEO, Jim Lanzone was the first Chief Digital Officer of this top 10 Internet property and was best known for driving the development of this company’s numerous streaming services
What is CBS
Our founders were attending this university when they launched Yahoo
What is Stanford University
This network of websites focuses mainly on college football and basketball recruiting in the US
What is Rivals
There are these many Employee Resource Groups (ERGS) at Yahoo
What is 11
This person was recently hired on as the President of Yahoo Mail
Who is Rob Gelick
Originally co-founded by Jim and known as eTour, this was an early provider of information retrieval and cost-per-lead services that was later acquired by another company and rebranded to this website:
What is Ask.com (then known as Ask Jeeves)