Yahoo! was founded by back in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo. Both of them were studying at Stanford University as electrical engineering majors. When they first created the website, is was titled “Jerry and David’s guide to the World Wide Web”. It was first a directory for other sites instead of how it is today as a search engine. Two months later in March, they renamed the website to the trademark name it has today, Yahoo!. The domain name for the website was created in January 18th, 1995. The name Yahoo! is actually an acronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle”.
When Yahoo! started gaining over one million hits, due to the popularity and views, it became incorporated. After some time, Yahoo! added its own web portal and became the most popular starting point for web users during the late 90’s. They started buying other small companies to add to the site’s functions. For example, in 1997 they bought Four11’s email service Rocketmail and turned it into Yahoo! Mail and ClassicGames.com and changed it into Yahoo! Games. Eventually Yahoo! was growing with its many different kinds of functions and services, along with its own search engine in 2004 since beforehand they were using Google for search. With its growing popularity, Yahoo!’s stock prices doubled and had an all-time high price of $118.75 a share. Additionally, Yahoo! became the first stock in Japanese history to trade over 100,000,000 yen.
During 2001, there was a dot-com bubble burst where some internet companies started failing and had to shut down. Yahoo! was one of the few surviving companies closing with a record low price of $8.11 per stock in September 2001. At this time, Yahoo! tried forming many partnerships with internet providers ...
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...ng on using the audience that Tumblr had on the regular website and mobile app, and combining it into one audience. This resulted in Yahoo! gaining more attention and doing what she was planning when it came to the mobile market.
Marissa Mayer is a woman of very strong caliber. Since she has become CEO, she has managed to raise stock prices to double of what they were worth. She has been ranked #32 on the Forbes Magazine’s List of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women and also number one in Fortune magazine’s annual list of the top 40 business stars under 40 years old. She has also been featured in Vogue magazine. She is a good representation of how the modern world is changing when it comes to having young CEOs because she has been able to help a company that receives 75% of the total internet audience in the United States with about 30 million visitors a day.
Not many people can add the position of National Security Advisor to their list of achievements, especially if those people are women. Condoleezza Rice, however, can place the accomplishment right up there with being a previous member of President Bush’s foreign-policy team, and tenured professor and provost in the political science department of the prestigious Stanford University.
Sheryl Sandberg is the chief operating officer of Facebook and is ranked on Fortune’s list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business and as one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. Sandberg chooses Lean In to examine the reasons for women’s progress being stalled in achieving leadership roles. It provides deep insight into root causes while also offering compelling and commonsense solutions which can empower women to achieve their full potential.
At this point in time the name and image of Condoleezza Rice is commonplace among the majority of informed Americans. As the first female to serve as the National Security Advisor to the President of the United States, Dr. Rice was propelled even further into the spotlight following the attacks on America on September 11th 2001. I too, like most Americans, saw a lot more of Condi, as she is known by her many friends and colleagues, after September 11. Clearly she was intelligent and always remained calm and poised in the face of adversity and standing before the cameras. I also noticed and appreciated her articulation and was even moved by what seemed like her stoic yet compassionate presentation. It was not until I read Dr. Rice’s biography, Condi, by Antonia Felix, however that she gained my utmost respect. By the 21st century a black successful black female is not as uncommon as it was fifty years ago. Black women had fought their way to the top in many arenas, including political such as the U.S. Senate. What is truly amazing about Condi’s story is speed and finesse with which she ascended to the top of everything she took on. An endearing friendship and mutual loyalty with both of the George Bushes surely did not hurt her. Condi’s success was hardly limited to the world of politics. She approached music, fitness, academics, sports, religion, and family with the same decisiveness, consistency, and determination that she brought to the public sector. Condi is also no stranger to controversy. Now more than ever she faces a host of critics, especially regarding her supposed knowledge of possible terrorist threats before they came to pass on September 11. Her Republican politics made her less than popular among African Americans although she maintains a more liberal perspective on social issues and remains pro-choice. In spite of her ups and downs it is ultimately her unfaltering character to which she can attribute her success as well as her status as what many call the most powerful woman in politics.
There are a lot of people currently in the public eye, people who have a great deal to do with our country and the way that it has been managed or not managed. It all depends on what you believe from the information that we are given. One face that has been around for many years, but is not always talked about in the media is Hilary Clinton. Hillary is one face in our country that is both well-known politically and also publicly. Normally when writing a paper, particularly one that is a biography, the first inclination is to write about someone who is directly involved with current events. Hillary Clinton, while not a prominent part of our current governmental events, has been very active in past events and remains someone who comes up continuously due to her help in other affairs. It is probably safe to say that her presence, while not always completely visible, will always be a prominent part in our government and its workings.
Oprah Winfrey is an outstanding & determined bright woman. Winfrey is a very advocate person. She has encouraged and inspired many people, but when she was growing up it was rough for her, but after her courageous and outstanding work, she is now a billionaire and helps a lot of charities.
“Differences can be a strength rather than a handicap”. This quote was said by the inspiring Condoleezza Rice. She was born on November 14, 1954 in the segregated area of Birmingham, Alabama. Her parents were both teachers and her dad was an ordained Presbyterian minister. Her name means “with sweetness” which comes from an Italian music-related term “con dolcezza”.
Cisco is one of Americas greatest corporate success stories. Since shipping it’s first product in 1986, The company has grown into a global market leader that holds No.1 or No.2 market share in almost every market section in which it participates. Cisco went public in 1990 on the nasdaq stock market with annual revenues at $69 million in that year. But now their revenues are at $12.2 billion in fiscal 1999. Their revenues in the last four quarters are shown in the figure below.
Sergey Brin Co-Founder he shared responsibility for the company’s day-to-day operations with Larry Page and Eric Schmidt .
Yahoo monitors the actions of users, in part, by using "cookies." Cookies are small files that record visits to web pages. When you open up a cookie dispensing web page, the web server sends one or more of these files to your browser. The cookies will usually contain a number that is unique to that browser. Then the next time that this browser opens that particular page, the web site will both send a new cookie and retrieve the old one. This makes it possible, for sites to compile lists of how often visitors go to a particular page as well as when they visit it.
In 1998, Satyam merged with different subsidiaries and as a result was listed on the NASDAQ. Satyam grew even further by entering into long-term contracts with corporations such as Microsoft and Yahoo!.
After overcoming her abusive childhood and the death of a baby. Oprah chose to change her life and made her a place in history. Oprah’s awareness of her own visions and passions has pushed her to achieve her own big goals and dreams. Her amazing listening skills and empathy have helped her in motivating thousands along the way. Oprah is what I would consider a relatable leader. She is no super hero she is just like you and I, therefore I can relate to her. For example, Oprah struggled with her weight for years and made it public seeking help. She didn’t hide it she looked for advise and listened to what others had to offer. People are more likely to follow leaders who are transparent and relatable. Oprah also has the lead by example quality, that I feel is major in a leader. She is always looking for ways to improve in her professional and personal life. Her focus is on being the best person she could possibly be, this then translates to the way other people choose to live their lives. Another great leadership skill Oprah has is that she is truly passionate about what she does. Thousand have seen this and followed her lead. Oprah is truly a great example of a leader. She posses all the great qualities that we often look for in a great
The company was founded in 1975 by William Henry Gates III -- currently the chairman of Microsoft and the wealthiest man in the world -- when he called the makers of a new microcomputer, MITS, and asked to demonstrate the BASIC programming language for the system. After the demonstration, MITS agreed to distribute Altair BASIC so Bill Gates left Harvard University, moved to where MITS was located, and founded Microsoft in ...
Google’s Stock Price was around $ 110, but it is now traded at around $500. What made this big difference? In order to understand why google’s stock price increased to reach this level we have to understand what makes it special from the way they treat their employees.
Women leaders have the crucial soft skills of empathy, innovation, facilitation, and active listening (Masaoka, 2006). They also have first-hand life experiences that bring technical skills and experiences from the street level to the workplace (Masoka, 2006). Women often build stronger relationships with clients and outside contacts than their male counterparts. This relationship building skill, provides a key aspect which helps to move businesses forward (Giber et al., 2009). Fortune 500 companies with a high percentage of women significantly outperformed those with fewer women. Companies with the highest representation of women showed higher returns on equity than those with fewer women employees (Giber et al., 2009). Thus, future organizations may have a higher percentage of female leaders than we have experienced in the past. Future leaders must ensure that there is equality among the workforce and that women are accurately represented among the
The late 90’s ushered in a new economy, IPO-funded .com companies. Apparently, investors believed that this new economy was the next big thing. Consequently, this belief, fostered in over-priced stock value. For instance, companies that had never produced any revenue, witnessed their stock trading at enormous value. Therefore, overnight a lot of executives and employees became millionaires (Ljungqvist, & Wilhelm, 2003). Unfortunately, at the time, there was a myth about how successful these companies would be. Moreover, investors were not interested with the bottom lines of these companies. For this reason, a lot of companies took on massive amounts of debts to grow with the new economy. Nevertheless, at the same time, Microsoft was declared