This post is a basic timeline of Yahoo!. There are 19 events listed below chronologically.
- Jerry Yang and David Filo found Yahoo! (1994)
- Yahoo! Directory (1994)
- Yahoo! Search (1995)
- Publicly traded (1996)
- Yahoo! News (1996)
- Yahoo! Finance (1997)
- Yahoo! Mail (1997)
- Yahoo! Sports (1997)
- Yahoo! Messenger (1998)
- Yahoo! Games (1998)
- GeoCities is acquired (1999)
- LAUNCH Media (Yahoo! Music) is acquired (2001)
- Flickr is acquired (2005)
- 40% of Alibaba is acquired (2005)
- Carol Bartz becomes CEO (2009)
- Marissa Mayer becomes CEO (2012)
- Alibaba equity is sold (2012)
- Yahoo! acquires Tumblr (2013)
- Verizon purchases Yahoo! for $4.8 billion (2017)
Sources
Wikipedia: Yahoo!, Alibaba Group
