Yahoo

Yahoo is a media technology company based in New York City that connects users with a wide range of interests, including finance, sports, shopping, gaming, and news. It operates as a comprehensive web portal, offering services such as Yahoo Search, Yahoo Mail, and Yahoo News. Additionally, Yahoo provides a platform for businesses to engage in advertising and marketing, leveraging its extensive media reach. The company also includes Yahoo! Store, which offers tools for building and managing e-commerce sites. By combining innovative technologies with diverse content, Yahoo aims to facilitate connections among its users and deliver relevant information and services.

Brian Beglin

Senior Director, Corporate Strategy

Jim Lanzone

CEO

Monica Vorn Mijaleski

CFO

Jerry Chih Yuan Yang

Co-Founder

Past deals in News

Artifact

Acquisition in 2024
Artifact is an AI-driven news aggregation platform.

Taboola

Post in 2022
Taboola is a content discovery platform that connects users with relevant content they may not have encountered otherwise. It delivers over 360 billion recommendations monthly to more than 1 billion unique visitors across various major publisher sites, including USA TODAY and Business Insider. The company employs an artificial intelligence-driven algorithm to provide tailored content and advertisements across the Open Web, working with digital properties such as websites, devices, and mobile applications. Headquartered in New York City, Taboola also has research and development operations in Israel, alongside offices in Pasadena, London, and Bangkok. It serves a global market, with a significant focus on the United States, and assists publishers, marketers, and agencies in enhancing user engagement, monetizing traffic, and distributing content to attract high-quality audiences.

The Factual

Acquisition in 2022
The Factual is a news aggregation service that focuses on delivering unbiased and credible news stories through its daily newsletter. The platform evaluates approximately 20,000 articles each day, scoring them for credibility based on various factors, including source diversity, author expertise, and the tone of writing. This scoring system enables The Factual to provide a broader range of news sources compared to traditional aggregators. Additionally, The Factual features an open discussion forum that encourages users to engage in honest conversations about current issues. By utilizing game mechanics to reward insightful contributions, the forum aims to foster collaboration among users, promote understanding of diverse viewpoints, and facilitate constructive discourse within the community.

Summly

Acquisition in 2013
Simple, intuitive and elegant. Summly redefines news for the mobile world with algorithmically generated summaries from thousands of sources. Innovative gestures, animations and great summaries make reading the news fun: easy to use, easy to scan, easy to read, clear and concise. Nick D'Aloisio launched Summly in December 2011 as a tech summarization prototype that garnered significant interest worldwide. With backing from Horizons Ventures, and help from many NLP and AI experts around the world, Nick and the Summly team have been able to further develop summarization technology, the first result being the new Summly mobile news app.

GeekStatus

Angel Round in 2010
GeekStatus provides users with the latest technology, news, reviews, and curated services.

BuzzTracker

Acquisition in 2007
BuzzTracker is a website that aggregates news and tracks blogs and other content sources. It was acquired by Yahoo! on September 14, 2007 and merged into Yahoo! News.

Rivals.com

Acquisition in 2007
Rivals.com provides online sports media services for college sports fans. It provides team coverage, team experience, and community interaction through a network of college, high school, and recruiting sites.

Yahoo

Acquisition in 1998
Yahoo is a media technology company based in New York City that connects users with a wide range of interests, including finance, sports, shopping, gaming, and news. It operates as a comprehensive web portal, offering services such as Yahoo Search, Yahoo Mail, and Yahoo News. Additionally, Yahoo provides a platform for businesses to engage in advertising and marketing, leveraging its extensive media reach. The company also includes Yahoo! Store, which offers tools for building and managing e-commerce sites. By combining innovative technologies with diverse content, Yahoo aims to facilitate connections among its users and deliver relevant information and services.
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