Short answers, pulled from the story.
Jerry Yang and David Filo founded Yahoo and registered the domain on the 18th of January 1995. They initially named their project Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide Web in January 1994 before renaming it Yahoo! by March 1994.
Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the term Yahoo to describe an unsophisticated, rural Southerner based on slang used by college students in Louisiana during the late 1980s. The founders later insisted that the backronym Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle was a secondary justification created to explain the database structure to investors.
Yahoo declined to buy Google in 1998 when the founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin approached them to sell their search engine for $1 million. In 2002 Yahoo's then-CEO Terry Semel entered negotiations to purchase Google for a price of $5 billion but the final offer of $3 billion was rejected by Google's leadership.
On the 3rd of October 2017 the company stated that all 3 billion of its user accounts were affected by the August 2013 theft. The breach affected over 1 billion user accounts and included specific details such as names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and encrypted passwords.
Verizon completed the acquisition of Yahoo on the 13th of June 2017 after lowering its purchase price by $350 million to $4.83 billion. Marissa Mayer resigned on the 21st of February 2017 when the company reached an agreement to share liabilities regarding the data breaches.
Investment funds managed by Apollo Global Management acquired 90% of Yahoo in September 2021 while Verizon retained 10%. CEO Jim Lanzone initiated a strategy focused on a potential turnaround emphasizing the integration of artificial intelligence across Yahoo's products.