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Jerry
Yang, Chairman
of the
Executive
Committee and
Chief Executive
Officer
named as
Television
International
Magazine,
Person of the
Month.
•••
In
addition to
serving on the
Yahoo! Board of
Directors, Mr.
Yang currently
serves on the
board of
directors of
Cisco Systems,
Yahoo! Japan,
and Alibaba,
and is also on
the Stanford
University
Board of
Trustees. Mr.
Yang holds B.S.
and M.S.
degrees in
electrical
engineering
from Stanford
University and
is currently on
a leave of
absence from
Stanford's
electrical
engineering
Ph.D. program.
•
•
Yahoo's
co-founder
along with Filo
have focused on
building the
corporate
infrastructure
needed to
maintain
Yahoo's rapid
growth as a
company and on
ensuring that
quality remains
high while
product
development
cycle times are
kept to a
minimum.
••••
In
late February,
(2008), their
potential mates
with deep
pockets denied
they would try
to beat
Microsoft
Corp.'s
$44.6-billion
offer even as
investment
bankers tried
to help Yahoo
remain
unhitched.
••••
According to a
person familiar
with the
discussion, the
day Microsoft
Corp. made its
bid public,
Google Chief
Executive Eric
Schmidt called
Yahoo CEO Jerry
Yang to offer
help in fending
off the
Redmond, Wash.-
based software
giant. The
companies,
which are both
based in
Silicon Valley,
have discussed
having Google
run Yahoo's
search-engine
business.
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02.
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Jerry
Yang.
Co-founder, CEO
and Chief
Yahoo!
•
1968
- Jerry
Yang, Born:
November 6,
1968; Taipei,
Taiwan
Occupation:
Co-founder, CEO
and Chief
Yahoo!, Yahoo!
Inc. Salary:
$1.00[1][2]
Net worth:
$2.2 billion
USD
(2007)[2]
[3]:
Spouse - Akiko
Yamazaki
•
1994
- January:
Jerry Yang and
David Filo
create "Jerry's
Guide to the
World Wide Web"
while studying
at Stanford
University.
•
1994
- World
Wide Web" is
re-named
"Yahoo!"
•
1995
- 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
web site.
• 1996
- 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.
•
1997
- October
8, 1997: Yahoo!
acquires
Four11, and
Four11's
Rocketmail
service becomes
Yahoo!
Mail.
•
1998
- June 8,
1998: Yahoo!
acquires
Viaweb,
co-founded by
Paul Graham,
which becomes
Yahoo!
Stores.
• October
12, 1998:
Yahoo! acquires
direct
marketing
company
Yoyodyne
Entertainment,
Inc.
[1]
•
1999
- January
28, 1999:
Yahoo! acquires
Geocities.
• April 1,
1999: Yahoo!
acquires
Broadcast.com.
•
2000
- 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).
[2]
• 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).
[3]
[4]. 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.
• June 28,
2000: Yahoo!
acquires
eGroups.
•
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).
•
2001
- December
27, 2001:
Yahoo! acquires
HotJobs.
•
2002
- June 3,
2002: SBC and
Yahoo! Launch
National
Co-Branded Dial
Service --
Press
Release.
2002
-
Yang
speaks
out.
"In
an Interview
with Sabeer
Bhatia, Yang
said that:
"In 1995, I
became
fascinated with
the new
websites
popping up
during the
early days of
the Internet.
One of them was
http://akebono.stanford.edu/~yahoo.
Soon we heard
that America
Online was
interested in
acquiring
Yahoo! for a
small sum that
would seem
quaint today.
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• December
2002: Yahoo!
Inc. starts
acquisition of
Inktomi Web
search
engine
•
2003
- July,
2003: BT
Openworld
announces an
alliance with
Yahoo! -- Press
Release
• July
2003, Yahoo!
acquires
Overture
Services,
Inc.
•
2004
- January
19, 2004:
Yahoo! Inc.
announces the
formation of
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,
returning to
its own
algorithm and
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.com
[5].
• December
15, 2004:
Yahoo! launches
beta version of
its video
search
engine.
•
2005
- 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.
[6]
• February
28, 2005 Yahoo!
launches a
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
[7]
• March
29, 2005 Yahoo!
launches
blogging and
social
networking
service Yahoo!
360¬°
[8]
• April 7,
2005 Wikimedia
Foundation
announces
Yahoo! support
[9]
• 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 widget
engine
Konfabulator
• August
11, 2005 Yahoo!
acquires 40% of
Alibaba.com for
$1 billion US,
and Alibaba
will take over
operation of
Yahoo! China.
[10]
• August
23, 2005:
Verizon and
Yahoo! Launch
Integrated DSL
Service --
Press
Release
•
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.
[11]
• October
4, 2005 Yahoo!
purchases
online social
event calendar
Upcoming.org.
[12]
• October
17, 2005 Yahoo!
buys British
company
Whereonearth
Ltd which
provides
location
technology.
• November
15, 2005 The
sports section
of 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.
[13],
[14]
• December
8/ (US time) 9,
(Australian
time) 2005
Yahoo! 7
announced for
January 2006.
Official
Site
• December
9, 2005 Yahoo!
acquires
del.icio.us.
• 2005
- Yang
started playing
poker in
2005.[2]
He entered the
2007 World
Series of
Poker
winning $8.5
million.
•
2006
- January
9, 2006 Yahoo!
acquires
webjay
•
February
12, 2006 Yahoo!
Developer
Network PHP
Center
launched.
•
2007
- In
February 2007,
Jerry Yang and
his wife
pledged USD $75
million to
Stanford
University,
their alma
mater, the bulk
of which would
be dedicated to
the building of
a new
environmental
building on
campus.
[7]
•
2007
- On
November 14,
2007, Yahoo
agreed to
settle with
affected
Chinese
dissidents,
paying them
undisclosed
compensation.
Yang stated,
"After meeting
with the
families, it
was clear to me
what we had to
do to make this
right for them,
for Yahoo, and
for the
future." In
response,
Democratic
Congressman Tom
Lantos,
chairman of the
United States
House Committee
on Foreign
Affairs,
stated, "It
took a
tongue-lashing
from Congress
before these
high-tech
titans did the
right thing and
coughed up some
concrete
assistance for
the family of a
journalist whom
Yahoo had
helped send to
jail. What a
disgrace."[12]
•
June,
2007
- [Yahoo
Mail gives
"unlimited"
storage for all
users.]
•Yang
enters the 2007
World Series of
Poker after
winning a
US$225
satellite at
the Pechanga
Resort and
Casino in
Temecula. Prior
to the World
Series, he had
four cashes in
local
California
events.(See
Wikipedia)
•At
the final
table, Yang
went from
starting eighth
in chips to
holding a big
chip lead that
he never
relinquished.
The process of
accumulating
this chip lead
involved Yang
knocking out
seven of the
eight other
players at the
final table.
After a 12-hour
final table,
Yang had won
US$8,250,000
for the victory
at 3:35
AM.
•
2008
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