#Yahoo headline news world software#

The deal was closed on September 1, 2021. On May 3, 2021, Verizon announced that the Verizon Media would be acquired by Apollo Global Management for roughly $5 billion, and would simply be known as Yahoo following the closure of the deal, with Verizon retaining a minor 10% stake in the new group.

In November, 2013, Yahoo hired former Today Show and CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric as Global Anchor of Yahoo! News.

An Amazon-owned marketing data collection company ( Amazon Alexa) claimed Yahoo! News one of the world's top news sites, at this point. Veteran journalists (including Walter Shapiro and Virginia Heffernan) were hired, while the website had a correspondent in the White House press corps for the first time in February 2012. īy 2011, Yahoo had expanded its focus to include original content, as part of its plans to become a major media organization. Comments were re-enabled on March 2, 2010. Yahoo allowed comments for news articles until December 19, 2006, when commentary was disabled. It was well-received as an innovative idea, expanding people's understanding of the impact that online news sources have on news consumption. In 2001, Yahoo! News launched the first 'most-emailed' page on the web. Articles originally came from news services such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Fox News, Al Jazeera, ABC News, USA Today, CNN and BBC News.

#Yahoo headline news world software#

The site was created by Yahoo! software engineer Brad Clawsie in August 1996. Yahoo! News is a news website that originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo!.