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Yahoo's $2.36 trillion mistake: 1998: Google wanted to be acquired by Yahoo, so Google offered to Yahoo for $1 million, but Yahoo refused. 2002: Yahoo realized its mistake and offered to acquire Google for $3 billion, but Google demanded $5 billion, which Yahoo refused. 2008: Microsoft offered Yahoo $44.6 billion but Yahoo rejected the offer. 2016: Verizon acquired Yahoo for $4 billion. Today Google's market cap is $2.36 trillion, Microsoft's market cap is $3.11 trillion.
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In the early 2000s, Larry Page and Sergey Brin sought investment for Google, approaching Yahoo!, which offered a lowball $1 million for acquisition. Page and Brin rejected the offer. By 2004, Google went public and dominated search, while Yahoo! stru
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As of 2024, the top 20 companies by market valuation are: 1. **Microsoft**: $3.32 trillion 2. **Apple**: $3.23 trillion 3. **Alphabet (Google)**: $2.27 trillion 4. **Saudi Aramco**: $2.11 trillion 5. **Amazon**: $1.61 trillion 6. **Nvidia**: $1.48 t
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Yahoo - was founded in 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo two graduate students but he's the thing Yahoo was never meant to be a business these two graduates just listed their favourite website in a directory and published it in the internet. Because
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