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The History of Yahoo!

How It All Started...

Founders -The two founders of Yahoo!, David Filo and JerryYang, Ph.D.

Started in the year 1994

Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Yahoo! has offices inEurope, Asia, Latin America, Australia, Canada and the UnitedStates

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Initial investment

In March 1995, the pair incorporated the business and metwith dozens of Silicon Valley venture capitalists. Theyeventually came across Sequoia Capital, the well-regardedfirm whose most successful investments included AppleComputer, Atari, Oracle and Cisco Systems. They agreed tofund Yahoo! in April 1995 with an initial investment of

nearly $2 million.

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Todays yahoo

Today, Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internetcommunications, commerce and media company that offersa comprehensive branded network of services to more than345 million individuals each month worldwide. As the firstonline navigational guide to the Web, www.yahoo.com isthe leading guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household

and business user reach. Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brandglobally and reaches the largest audience worldwide.

The company's global Web network includes 25 Worldproperties..

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Introduction to Rediff

It was founded in 1996.

Headquartered in Mumbai, India with offices in New Delhi

and New York City, USA. It is the only India-based website to appear in the first 100

websites. It has more than 316 employees.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbaihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Delhihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Cityhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USAhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USAhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Cityhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Delhihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai

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Approach to abroad..

In April 2001, Rediff.com acquired and began offering IndiaAbroad.

It has more than 316 employees.

89.1% of the millions of visitors to Rediff.com are from

India, while the rest come primarily from the USA (3.4%)and China.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_Abroadhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_Abroadhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_Abroadhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_Abroad

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Rediff products

Rediff Mail: Web based e-mail which has around65 million registered usernames.It offersunlimited free storage space.Rediff recentlylaunched an AJAX based mail interface.Rediffmailis also available on mobiles through the freemobile application.

Rediff Bol: instant messenger with support forHindi language

It also offers various other web based servicessuch as a web search, shopping, classifieds, amatrimonial service, social networking, blogging,a music-video sharing platform etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAXhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAXhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX

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History of Google

Google began in March 1996 as a research project by LarryPage and Sergey Brin, Ph.D. students at Stanford[1]

working on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP). Financing and initial public offering :

-The first funding for Google-August 1998 in the form of a$100,000USD contribution from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder ofSun Microsystems, given to a corporation whichdid not yet exist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Pagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Pagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brinhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Universityhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Digital_Library_Projecthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollarhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Bechtolsheimhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystemshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystemshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Bechtolsheimhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollarhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Digital_Library_Projecthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Universityhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brinhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Pagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Pagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google

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Growth..

In February 2003, Google acquired Pyra Labs,owner ofBlogger, a pioneering and leading weblog hosting website.

Google replaced Burlington Resources, a majoroil producer based in Houston that had beenacquired by ConocoPhillips.[40] The day after the

announcement Google's share price rose by 7%

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyra_Labshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger.comhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington_Resourceshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston,_Texashttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConocoPhillipshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConocoPhillipshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston,_Texashttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington_Resourceshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger.comhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyra_Labs