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Yahoo! Photos – A photo sharing service similar to Flickr, which Yahoo acquired; shut down on September 20, 2007. [59] Yahoo! Pipes – A free RSS mashup visual editor and hosting service; shut down on September 30, 2015. Yahoo! Podcasts – A beta service that allowed users to search for and view podcasts; discontinued in November 2007. Yahoo!
Yahoo (/ ˈ j ɑː h uː / ⓘ, styled yahoo! in its logo) [4] [5] is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California , and operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc. , which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon .
Yahoo! Go was a Java-based phone application provided by Yahoo! for users to access the company's products and services via their mobile phones or PDAs. Up till its closure, Yahoo! considered Go as Beta software. [2] Services include sending/receiving email, the upload of photos, using Earth mapping services, search via Yahoo!'s oneSearch and ...
Yahoo! Next was an incubation ground for future Yahoo! technologies in their beta testing phase, similar to Google Labs. It contained forums for Yahoo! users to give feedback to assist in the development of these future Yahoo! technologies. In early 2006, Yahoo! offered to users the opportunity to beta test a new version of the Yahoo! homepage.
Yahoo! Pipes was a web application from Yahoo! that provided a graphical user interface for building data mashups that aggregate web feeds, web pages, and other services; creating Web-based apps from various sources; and publishing those apps. The application worked by enabling users to "pipe" information from different sources and then set up ...
[8] [9] [10] The beta version Yahoo! Answers was launched to the general public on December 8, 2005 [11] [12] and was available until May 14, 2006. Yahoo! Answers was finally made available for general availability on May 15, 2006. [13] Yahoo! Answers was created to replace Ask Yahoo!, Yahoo!'s former Q&A platform which was discontinued in ...
Yahoo holds a 34.75% minority stake in Yahoo Japan, while SoftBank holds 35.45%, [168] Yahoo!Xtra in New Zealand, which Yahoo!7 have 51% of and 49% belongs to Telecom New Zealand, and Yahoo!7 in Australia, which is a 50–50 agreement between Yahoo and the Seven Network. Historically, Yahoo entered into joint venture agreements with SoftBank ...
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. [ 53 ] December 8 (U.S. time), 9 (Australian time), 2005: Australia's Seven Network combines its online, mobile and internet TV business with the local arm of Yahoo! and the commencement of Yahoo!7 is ...