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Yahoo! Japan acquired the naming rights for the Fukuoka Dome in 2005, renaming the dome as the "Fukuoka Yahoo! Japan Dome". The "Yahoo Dome" is the home field for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, a professional baseball team, majorly owned by SoftBank. Since 2010, Yahoo! Japan's search engine has been based on Google's search technology.
In March 2021, Z Holdings, which owns Yahoo! Japan, and Line Corporation merged their businesses. The companies aimed to reduce costs by unifying overlapping services such as QR code payment, and increase traffic between the approximately 200 services they offer, focusing on the three businesses of search, messaging apps, and advertising.
In March 2021, Yahoo! Japan Corporation was renamed Z Holdings and merged with LINE Corporation. [ 10 ] Under the new structure, Naver Corporation (Line's former parent company) and SoftBank Corp. (the wireless carrier unit of SoftBank Group) each hold 50 percent stakes in a new company named A Holdings Corp., which holds a majority stake in Z ...
In September 2021, investment funds managed by Apollo Global Management acquired 90% of Yahoo. [91] [92] In November 2021, Yahoo announced that it was ending operations in mainland China due to the increasingly challenging business and legal environment. [93] Previously, the company discontinued China Yahoo Mail on August 20, 2013. [94]
In March 2021 Line Corporation merged with Yahoo Japan, which has been operated by Z Holdings, a SoftBank Group subsidiary. [12] Under the new structure, Naver Corporation (Line's former parent company) and SoftBank Corp. (the wireless carrier unit of SoftBank Group) each hold 50 percent stakes in a new company named A Holdings Corp., which ...
In March 2021 Line Corporation officially merged with Yahoo! Japan , which had been operated by Z Holdings. [ 6 ] Upon integrating the two businesses and creating further platforms, the merged company aims to compete with the U.S. tech giants Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple and the Chinese tech giants Baidu , Alibaba , and Tencent , [ 7 ...
An Arabic language Q&A platform called Seen Jeem was available through the Yahoo! subsidiary Maktoob until 2010, and the Chinese language version Yahoo! Knowledge was available until 2021. [16] The platform is known as Yahoo! Chiebukuro (Yahoo!知恵袋) in Japan. [17] On December 8, 2016, Yahoo! released an app for the platform called Yahoo!
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).