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It provides a web portal, search engine Yahoo Search, and related services, including My Yahoo!, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports and its advertising platform, Yahoo! Native . Yahoo was established by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s. [ 6 ]
The 2024 Summer Olympics, [a] officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad [b] and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event that occurred from 26 July to 11 August 2024 in France, with the opening ceremony having taken place on 26 July.
On December 14, 2008, The Guardian reported that three employees had been laid off as Yahoo! continued to reduce its workforce [43] and, on November 30, 2010, CNET reported Yahoo! was on the verge of a major layoff, affecting 10% to 20% of its workforce. Flickr was specifically named as a target for these layoffs.
April 3 – A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 strikes off the eastern coast of Taiwan, with small tsunamis reaching heights of 20–30 cm (7.9–11.8 in) hitting Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. [66] April 4 – The 2024 Kuwaiti general election is held. [67]
It has learning games, also known as "kahoots", which are user-generated multiple-choice quizzes that can be accessed via a web browser or the Kahoot! app. [4] [5] In July 2023, Kahoot agreed to be acquired by Goldman Sachs Asset Management alongside General Atlantic , Glitrafjord, and others in a $1.72 billion all-cash deal.
Shipping (derived from the word relationship) is the term for the desire by followers of a fandom for two or more people, either real-life people or fictional characters (in film, literature, television series, etc.), to be in a romantic relationship. Shipping often takes the form of unofficial creative works, including fanfiction and fan art.
The United Nations uses a combination of ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 and alpha-3 codes, along with codes that pre-date the creation of ISO 3166, for international vehicle registration codes, which are codes used to identify the issuing country of a vehicle registration plate; some of these codes are currently indeterminately reserved in ISO 3166-1.
[20] Emmanuel Ayoola, 90, Nigerian lawyer and judge, chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (2005–2010). [21] Erik Barrett, 48, American bassist . [22] (death announced on this date) Antonio Carmine Centi , 80, Italian politician, mayor of L'Aquila (1994–1998). [23]