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History. 1997–2002. Yahoo! webmail interface as it appeared in 2001. First mail of Yahoo after creation in 2001. Yahoo! made a deal with the online communications company Four11 for co-branded white pages.
In 2004, in response to Google's release of Gmail, Yahoo! upgraded the storage of all free Yahoo! Mail accounts from 4 MB to 1 GB, and all Yahoo! Mail Plus accounts to 2 GB. On July 9, 2004, Yahoo! acquired e-mail provider Oddpost, adding an Ajax interface to Yahoo! Mail Beta. [43]
Yahoo purchased a company called Four11 for a comparatively cheap $94 million, and turned its service, RocketMail, into Yahoo Mail. As ecommerce was predicted to grow as quickly as online advertising, Yahoo wasted no time experimenting with this market as well, launching Yahoo Shopping.
June 1998: Together with the ymail.com domain name, Four11's Rocketmail is incorporated into Yahoo! Mail. [7] June 8, 1998: Yahoo! acquires Viaweb, co-founded by Paul Graham, for $49 million and transforms it into Yahoo! Store. [8]
By early 1998, Yahoo had added email, shopping, classifieds, personals, games, travel, weather, maps, people search, celebrity chats, a kid-oriented version called Yahooligans, and an online...
The Birth of Yahoo Mail. In April 1995, Yang and Filo launched Yahoo! Mail, a web-based email service that quickly gained popularity. Yahoo! Mail was one of the first free web-based email services, making it accessible to the masses.
Launched in August 2007, the new version of Yahoo Mail allows users to choose how they want to communicate, switching among e-mail, chat and text-messaging options.
On March 8, 1997, Yahoo! acquired Four11, an online communications company. One of the key assets that came with this acquisition was Rocketmail, an email service, which Yahoo! rebranded as Yahoo! Mail. This move allowed Yahoo! to bolster its email services significantly. Additionally, Yahoo! acquired ClassicGames.com, transforming it into Yahoo!
Yahoo.com launched in 1995 and was incorporated in Sunnyvale, California. Almost immediately, the company was a hit. “It was as if Yang and Filo had opened a lemonade stand in a hayfield and a...
Yahoo bought the webmail service for $92 million in March 1997, and it eventually became the foundation for Yahoo Mail -- now the third-largest mail service, behind Google's Gmail and...