Monday, March 29, 2010

Website: When were Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft founded?

Google was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 7, 1998. Google's initial public offering took place on August 19, 2004, raising $1.67 billion, making it worth $23 billion.


In April 1994, "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" 
was renamed "Yahoo!", for which the official backronym is "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". The Yahoo! domain was created on January 18, 1995. Yang and Filo realized their website had massive business potential, and on March 1, 1995, Yahoo! was incorporated. 
On April 12, 1996, Yahoo! had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 million, 
 by selling 2.6 million shares at $13 each. 


MSN (originally The Microsoft Network) is a collection of internet sites and services provided by microsoft. It was launched on August 24, 1995.

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