"one of the most popular sites in the United States. According to third-party web analytics providers Alexa and SimilarWeb, Yahoo! was the most widely read news and media website – with over 7 billion views per month – ranking as the sixth-most-visited website globally in 2016. Once the most popular website in the U.S., Yahoo slowly declined, starting in the late 2000s, and in 2017 Verizon Communications acquired most of Yahoo's Internet business for $4.48 billion,<ref name=""Yahoo!-Inc-Jun-2017-SC-TO-I/A""></ref> excluding its stakes in Alibaba Group and Yahoo! Japan, which were transferred to Yahoo's successor company Altaba. In January 1994, Yang and Filo"
"users’ data when they connect to the Internet via any WiFi connection, including public WiFi access points. NetZero NetZero is an Internet service provider based in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California. It is a subsidiary of United Online, which in turn is a subsidiary of investment bank B. Riley Financial. United Online is also the parent of Juno Online Services and BlueLight Internet Services. Netzero bought FreeInet around 1998. FreeInet was the first free national internet service provider. NetZero was launched in October 1998, founded by Ronald T. Burr (original CEO), Stacy Haitsuka, Marwan Zebian and Harold MacKenzie. NetZero grew"
"Juno Online Services Juno Online Services, also called simply Juno, is an Internet service provider based in the United States. It originated as a free E-mail service, expanded its offerings until the turn of the century, and later declined. Juno is a subsidiary of United Online, which in turn is a subsidiary of investment bank B. Riley Financial. United Online is also the parent of NetZero and BlueLight Internet Services. Juno was founded in May 1996 by Charles Ardai, Brian Marsh and Clifford Tse, with equity capital provided by the D.E. Shaw Group and headquarters in the same Midtown Manhattan"
"Michael Yang Michael Yang is a Korean American technology entrepreneur. He was born in Seoul, South Korea and moved to San Jose, California on April 2, 1976, with his family when he was 14 years old. After attending UC Berkeley and Columbia University graduate school, Michael worked for Xerox, Intergraph, Televideo, Samsung and Jazz Multimedia before starting his first venture capital backed startup company mySimon with Yeogirl Yun in April 1998. mySimon was acquired by CNET in 2000 for $700 million during the Internet boom. He then started Become.com in January 2004 and raised $37 million in capital from TPG,"
"groups also became owners with a combine $25 million investment before this launch. This service does not have any of the major news channels as they are affiliated with sports channels which are the most expensive channels. Instead, the service offers BBC World News, which is distributed by AMC and the independent digital first financial news channel, Cheddar. Philo (company) Philo (formerly Tivli) is an internet television company currently based in San Francisco, California. The service first launched at Harvard University in 2009. Investors in the company include HBO, Facebook co-founder Andrew McCollum, and Mark Cuban. , the service has"
"Philo (company) Philo (formerly Tivli) is an internet television company currently based in San Francisco, California. The service first launched at Harvard University in 2009. Investors in the company include HBO, Facebook co-founder Andrew McCollum, and Mark Cuban. , the service has approximately 50,000 subscribers. Philo plans to integrate a social platform that connects viewers with friends and family to discover new content, share favorite shows, and watch shows together. The service has a base line up of 37 channels from the programming equity holders plus thre Tivli, Philo's original name, was founded in 2009 by then Harvard seniors Nicholas"
"NetZero NetZero is an Internet service provider based in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California. It is a subsidiary of United Online, which in turn is a subsidiary of investment bank B. Riley Financial. United Online is also the parent of Juno Online Services and BlueLight Internet Services. Netzero bought FreeInet around 1998. FreeInet was the first free national internet service provider. NetZero was launched in October 1998, founded by Ronald T. Burr (original CEO), Stacy Haitsuka, Marwan Zebian and Harold MacKenzie. NetZero grew to 1,000,000 users in six months. NetZero's model was free Internet access to attract an audience for"
"Chen Danian Chen Danian (, born 1978), also known as Danny Chen, is a notable Internet entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of LinkSure. The company launched the world’s largest and first-of-its-kind WiFi sharing app, WiFi Master Key. He is the co-founder and was previously COO of Shanda (NASDAQ: SNDA), which became the largest Internet company in China by market capitalization in 2004. In 2016, Chen is listed on 40 under 40 (Fortune magazine) as one of most influential young leaders in China. Chen is also ranked 43rd on Fortune’s 2017 list of The Top 50 Most Influential Business"
"Africa Online Africa Online Holding Ltd., sometimes abbreviated to AFOL, is the largest Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Africa. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, it offers Internet access and operates in ten African countries, including Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Services provided by Africa Online include dial-up Internet access, leased line services, e-mail accounts, VSAT connectivity, DSL, WAN and VPN for private and business customers. In 2007 it has become a subsidiary of Telkom South Africa. The company was started in 1994 by Ayisi Makatiani, Karanja Gakio and Amolo Ng'weno, three Kenyans who met each other while"
"Yangaroo YANGAROO (TSXV: YOO) is a Canadian company specializing in providing technology solutions for the music, advertising, and awards industries. It was founded in 1999 by Cliff Hunt and David Staples. Digital Media Distribution System (DMDS) is a patented service of YANGAROO Inc. YANGAROO, powered by DMDS, is a secure distribution tool for audio and video media via the internet and is used by industry professionals. Systems like DMDS make it possible for broadcasters, TV advertisers, and post-production companies to move away from physical media like DigiBeta tapes to digital file based workflows. The DMDS service supports: YANGAROO Music provides"
"Leaders in China. Chen Danian Chen Danian (, born 1978), also known as Danny Chen, is a notable Internet entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of LinkSure. The company launched the world’s largest and first-of-its-kind WiFi sharing app, WiFi Master Key. He is the co-founder and was previously COO of Shanda (NASDAQ: SNDA), which became the largest Internet company in China by market capitalization in 2004. In 2016, Chen is listed on 40 under 40 (Fortune magazine) as one of most influential young leaders in China. Chen is also ranked 43rd on Fortune’s 2017 list of The Top 50"
"Jerry Yang. In July 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! agreed to a deal that would see Yahoo!'s websites use both Microsoft's search technology and search advertising. Yahoo! in turn would become the sales team for banner advertising for both companies. While Microsoft would provide algorithmic search results, Yahoo! would control the presentation and personalization of results for searches on its pages. On July 21, 2009, Yahoo! launched a new version of its front page, called Metro. The new page allowed users to customize it through the prominent ""My Favorites"" panel on the left side and integrate third-party web services and launch"
"these companies regularly express their distaste for China's Great Firewall policies, in the same vein they consider it a necessary part of doing business in China and better than the alternative, which would be to not have any China business at all. Jerry Yang, a founder of Yahoo!, additionally has implied that the presence of foreign internet companies in China will eventually help bring about less internet restriction in China. Critics argue that the GFW is consequence of China’s paranoia of the potential that the Internet has of spreading opposition to their one-party rule. Other arguments given against China are"
"Starry Internet Starry Internet is a fixed wireless broadband Internet service provider (ISP or WISP) operated by Starry, Inc., using millimeter-band LMDS connections, sometimes categorized as 5G fixed wireless, to connect its base stations to customer buildings. Starry, Inc. was publicly announced in January 2016 by Chaitanya ""Chet"" Kanojia, who had previously founded Aereo. , it was providing commercial service to a limited number of apartment buildings in the Boston area for $50/month per apartment, promising 200Mbit/s upload and download speeds. , Starry was based in Boston, had about 100 employees, and had raised $63 million of funding. Kanojia claims"
"Leon Yohai Leon Yohai (born 31 January 1974) is a Greek entrepreneur. He is mostly known for founding a series of high profile .com ventures, including fleamarket.gr (later relaunched as emarket.gr) and zulutrade.com. Leon started his career by cofounding InternetQ in 2000. InternetQ was among the first few mobile content firms globally to introduce premium SMS services with well-established telecom providers such as WIND, Vodafone and Cosmote. He steps off the company in 2003. While at InternetQ, Leon contributed in the launch of fleamarket.gr, the first Greek online auction portal in 1999, which exceeded $1 billion in cost of goods"
"in parallel and distributed systems, Internet search, and parallel scientific computing. He has co-authored over eighty journal and conference papers. Together with Apostolos Gerasoulis, Yang ran research and development of the Teoma search engine from its startup stage in 2000 and after it was acquired by Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com) in 2001. Teoma has been the backend search engine for Ask.com since December 2001, competing with other search engines such as Google and Yahoo!. Tao Yang (Teoma) Tao Yang is an American computer scientist. Yang is the Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Ask.com for web search. He is"
"acquired Zimbra, an open source email, calendaring, and collaboration software suite. In the same year, Synacor acquired NimbleTV. In 2016, Synacor displaced Yahoo! as the portal provider for AT&T and was selected to provide authentication for HBO Go. In January 1998, George Chamoun and Darren Ascone, roommates at the University of Buffalo, founded Chek.com, a Buffalo-based email infrastructure provider. It started as an affinity-branded free email provider, allowing users to create an email account at domains like Budweiser.com and Yankeesfan.net. Additionally, Chek.com provided a Business E-Communications solution, allowing companies to outsource their email hosting to Chek.com, providing an outlet for"
"globally. Leon enjoys paragliding, skiing, and go kart driving. He is also a big supporter and an early investor on the AirBike project. Leon Yohai Leon Yohai (born 31 January 1974) is a Greek entrepreneur. He is mostly known for founding a series of high profile .com ventures, including fleamarket.gr (later relaunched as emarket.gr) and zulutrade.com. Leon started his career by cofounding InternetQ in 2000. InternetQ was among the first few mobile content firms globally to introduce premium SMS services with well-established telecom providers such as WIND, Vodafone and Cosmote. He steps off the company in 2003. While at InternetQ,"
"Yoo started a small Internet service provider called Cymitar Network Systems out of his garage apartment in San Antonio, Texas. The company began doing application development work in addition to offering basic Internet access and web hosting. In 1997, Yoo brought on Dirk Elmendorf. When the company began to develop Internet applications as its primary business, the company was re-formed as Cymitar Technology Group. As Cymitar Technology Group grew, Patrick Condon was recruited from California and joined the team in 1998. Coincidentally, all three of the company's founders were students at one time at Trinity University in San Antonio. Although"
"Dangdang E-commerce China Dangdang Inc. (), known as Dangdang, is a Chinese electronic commerce company, founded by Peggy Yu and Li Guoqing in 1999. It is headquartered in Beijing and its main competitors are Amazon.cn (or Amazon China, formerly Joyo.com) and JD.com (or Jingdong, formerly 360buy.com). The competition escalated into a price war in December 2010, with each retailer marking down a wide range of items, especially books. DangDang made an IPO on the NYSE in November 2010, estimated at approximately US$1 billion. Dangdang's main product categories include household merchandise, cosmetics, digital, home appliances, books, audio, and dozens of clothing"
"2012, PandoDaily wrote that Zorpia ""has a dreadful spamming problem that it needs to fix fast."" In December 2003, Jeffrey Ng founded Zorpia as a social networking service. Ng wanted it to be an online nation for people looking for new relationships. While sites such as Facebook and Twitter are still banned in China, the ban has allowed Zorpia to use its ICP license in China to grow its user base. Jeffrey Ng began his entrepreneurial career at the age of 13. He started his own Japanese music website and music search engine. He graduated from the University of Illinois"
"the free service in 2004. The service first became available in 1999 and carried multiple brands during a spell of affiliations with different web services provider. Although originally made available by Odigo, Inc., the service was supplied by Comverse, who used it to help innovate and forward their wireless products. The word Odigo comes from the Greek ""οδηγώ"" which means ""I guide/lead/drive/steer"". Odigo reported that, two hours before the September 11, 2001 attacks, two of their employees who were working in an Odigo office in Herzliya Pituah, a city near Tel Aviv, received a hostile English electronic instant message non-specifically"
"dial into a DWANGO server. Initially, a phone number in Houston, Texas had to be dialed, but soon a number of servers in other cities were also set up. However, DWANGO's dial in approach was soon overshadowed by online multiplayer through the increasingly popular Internet and the service ceased operation in October . Its Japanese division has continued to flourish, evolving into the telecommunications/media company which now operates the Niconico video hosting service. DWANGO was created in 1994 by Bob Huntley and Kee Kimbrell in Houston, Texas. Huntley had wanted to transition his company Interactive Visual Systems from providing video"
"Investments, and became Tixa Co. (WWW.TIXA.COM). In September 2009, Alibaba acquired HiChina and later built it into Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun), maintaining its position as the top domain name registration and web hosting service company in China. Xiangning Zhang Xiangning ""Forrest"" Zhang 张向宁 (born in 1972) is a Chinese information technology entrepreneur, angel investor, and venture capitalist. He is among the first group of Internet entrepreneurs in China, and also the founder, former Chairman and CEO of HiChina Corporation (WWW.NET.CN) as well as the Chairman and CEO of Tixa Internet Technology Corporation. Zhang foresaw the potential of the Internet and provided"
"China have shopping experiences with Dangdang. Dangdang E-commerce China Dangdang Inc. (), known as Dangdang, is a Chinese electronic commerce company, founded by Peggy Yu and Li Guoqing in 1999. It is headquartered in Beijing and its main competitors are Amazon.cn (or Amazon China, formerly Joyo.com) and JD.com (or Jingdong, formerly 360buy.com). The competition escalated into a price war in December 2010, with each retailer marking down a wide range of items, especially books. DangDang made an IPO on the NYSE in November 2010, estimated at approximately US$1 billion. Dangdang's main product categories include household merchandise, cosmetics, digital, home appliances,"
"offerings, both via acquisitions and by evolving its current brands. In September 2007, NetZero launched its first broadband access service, NetZero DSL. In May 2008, it launched Juno DSL. Together, NetZero DSL and Juno DSL provided almost 30 percent of United Online’s ISP customers, and provided those customers with the ability to upgrade to broadband while maintaining their NetZero or Juno email addresses. In March 2012, NetZero expanded into the wireless Internet access market with the debut of NetZero Mobile Broadband, a value-priced mobile broadband service using the Clearwire network. NetZero Mobile Broadband was available in over 80 cities, and"
"Richard Yoo Richard Yoo is an American entrepreneur, the co-founder and former CEO of the web hosting company Rackspace, and the founder and former CEO of web hosting company ServerBeach. Born in Houston, Texas, Yoo graduated from Alief Hastings High School in Houston and attended Trinity University as a pre-med student in San Antonio, Texas. Although he did not graduate from Trinity, he operates as an advisor to the university's computer science department. Richard Yoo has attended the TED conference in California. Cymitar Network Systems was Yoo's first start-up. The small Internet service provider was launched in 1996 and was"
"Xiangning Zhang Xiangning ""Forrest"" Zhang 张向宁 (born in 1972) is a Chinese information technology entrepreneur, angel investor, and venture capitalist. He is among the first group of Internet entrepreneurs in China, and also the founder, former Chairman and CEO of HiChina Corporation (WWW.NET.CN) as well as the Chairman and CEO of Tixa Internet Technology Corporation. Zhang foresaw the potential of the Internet and provided domain name registration and web hosting services from the end of 1995, leading HiChina to earn the largest share of the Chinese market in this field. Later he started his second company, Tixa, and continued to"
"shows. In December 2014, YANGAROO announced a partnership with IMD Fastrax, the music distribution arm of leading global delivery logistic company, IMD. The partnership will enable North American record labels and recording artists to deliver their music videos to the UK & Ireland via the IMD Fastrax platform. Yangaroo YANGAROO (TSXV: YOO) is a Canadian company specializing in providing technology solutions for the music, advertising, and awards industries. It was founded in 1999 by Cliff Hunt and David Staples. Digital Media Distribution System (DMDS) is a patented service of YANGAROO Inc. YANGAROO, powered by DMDS, is a secure distribution tool"
"their shares in Soribada to Shanghai-based investment, trade and e-commerce company ISPC International Limited. ISPC is founded and owned by the Shanghai Municipal Government. With this development, Yang Junghwan resigned from being Soribada's CEO. The Yang brothers came back as minority investors in April 2016. Soribada Soribada () was the first Korean peer-to-peer file-sharing service, launched in 2000 by Sean Yang as a Napster clone. The name 'Soribada' means ""Ocean of Sound"" or ""Receiving (downloading) Sound"". It was closed in 2002 by court order but continued to be distributed with a stipulation that its users were responsible for any of"
"site. Based in New York City, Jango was launched in November 2007 by Daniel Kaufman and Chris Dowhan, who were previously the founders of Dash.com. At the time of 2009-2010, Jango only had 200,000 tracks from around 15,000 artists in its library. By November 2014, Jango's library size is 15 times bigger, topping 30 million songs. As of February 2016, Jango had 8 million active users. Jango (website) Jango is a free online music streaming service available worldwide. Stating that its uninterrupted playlists are handmade by music experts and many of them are updated weekly, the service will recommend its"
"mining. For a while the company enjoyed favor from investors, listing on the Nairobi Stock Exchange in 2001, but its stock subsequently lost ground and it was delisted in both London and Nairobi in 2003. By that time, the 3 founders had departed Africa Online. Africa Online was bought by Telkom South Africa in 2007. Africa Online Africa Online Holding Ltd., sometimes abbreviated to AFOL, is the largest Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Africa. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, it offers Internet access and operates in ten African countries, including Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Services provided"
"and in the 2010s various competing same-day delivery services started in larger U.S. cities. Kozmo.com Kozmo.com was a venture-capital-funded online company that promised free one-hour delivery of ""videos, games, dvds, music, mags, books, food, basics & more"" and Starbucks coffee in several major cities in the United States. It was founded by young investment bankers Joseph Park and Yong Kang in March 1998 in New York City, and was out of business by April 2001. The company is often referred to as an example of the dot-com bubble. On January 2013, the brand was bought by Yummy.com and announced that"