Yahoo News

Yahoo! News is a news website that started out as an internet-based news aggregator. In August 1996, a Yahoo! software engineer named Brad Clawsie launched the site. Articles were first published by news organizations such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Fox News, Al Jazeera, ABC News, USA Today, CNN, and BBC News. Yahoo! News launched the first "most-emailed" page on the web in 2001. It was well-received as a novel idea, broadening people's understanding of the impact of online news sources on news consumption. Yahoo permitted comments on news articles until December 19, 2006, when they were disabled. On March 2, 2010, comments were re-enabled.

As part of its plans to become a major media organization, Yahoo had expanded its focus to include original content by 2011. Veteran journalists (including Walter Shapiro and Virginia Heffernan) were hired, and for the first time in February 2012, the website had a correspondent in the White House press corps. At this point, an Amazon-owned marketing data collection company (Amazon Alexa) claims Yahoo! News is one of the world's top news sites.

Founded: 1996

Headquarters: New York City, New York, US

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Website: https://news.yahoo.com/