Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
David Filo. Co-founder and Chief Yahoo, Yahoo! Inc. David Robert Filo (born April 20, 1966) is an American billionaire businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with classmate Jerry Yang. His Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side software used to dynamically serve variable web pages, called Filo Server ...
He met David Filo at Stanford in 1989, and the two went to Japan in 1992 for a six-month exchange program, where he met his future wife, Akiko Yamazaki, also participating in the exchange program. Career. Yang founded Yahoo! in 1994 and was CEO from 2007 to 2009. He left Yahoo! in 2012.
Inc. [3] was an American multinational technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. [4] [5] Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early internet era in the 1990s. [6] Marissa Mayer, a former Google executive, served as CEO and ...
Early history (1994–1996) When Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web was renamed to Yahoo! in 1994, Yang and Filo said that "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" was a suitable backronym for this name, but they insisted they had selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."
Walentas returned to the US and worked for W. R. Grace and Company and saving his money, partnered with Grace family member J. Frederic Byers III (who would later marry Bill Paley's daughter, Hillary), and bought an apartment building in 1968 on 104th and Manhattan Avenue.
Dave Filoni. David Filoni (born June 7, 1974) is an American director, producer, and screenwriter currently serving as the Chief Creative Officer of Lucasfilm. He directed multiple episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender, before being hired by George Lucas to oversee direction on the television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars as well as ...
The following is a list of notable Kennedy family members, arranged by birth date: P. J. Kennedy (1858–1929) businessperson; Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. (1888–1969) businessperson, politician; Rose Kennedy (1890–1995) philanthropist, socialite, family matriarch; Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (1915–1944) U.S. Navy pilot
Through her great-great-great-grandfather Sir Robert Sheffield, 4th Baronet, she is a fourth cousin of Pamela Harriman, first wife of Winston Churchill's son Randolph Churchill. This Sheffield ancestor was an MP for the same constituency as Thomas Corbett, also an ancestor. Cameron's family also own a large Yorkshire estate called Sutton Park.