Yahoo

·         On July 13, 2008 Yahoo rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft Corporation and billionaire investor Carl Icahn for a restructuring of the global Internet giant,  (Yahoo was given only 24 hours to consider the offer)

·         Yahoo had received the joint proposal from Microsoft and Icahn, an arrangement that would include the acquisition of the Internet major’s search business by Microsoft and the rest of the company by Icahn.

·         The statement from Yahoo repeated the offer to sell the entire company to Microsoft for at least $33 (£16.5) a share and suggested that a takeover of the entire company would be much simpler than the proposed restructuring.

·         Microsoft offered $31 a share for Yahoo in February.

·         Roy Bostock is chairman of Yahoo

Mission IAS’2009

Yahoo!

·         Yahoo! was founded in 1994 by Stanford Ph.D. students David Filo and Jerry Yang.

·         It began as a hobby and has evolved into a global brand that has changed the way people communicate with each other, conduct transactions and access, share, and create information.

·         The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices around the globe.

Rediif

·         Ajit Balakrishnan is Founder and CEO, rediff.com

·         Rediff.com India, is a popular news, information, entertainment, and shopping portal.

·         It was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Mumbai, with offices in New Delhi and New York.

·         Rediff.com also offers the Indian American community one of the oldest and largest Indian weekly newspaper, India Abroad, which it acquired in 2001.

Hotmail

·         Hotmail, founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith in 1995, was commercially launched on July 4, 1996, Independence Day in the United States, symbolically representing freedom from ISPs.

googol

·         Edward Kasner (1878–1955), (City College of New York 1897; Columbia University M.A., 1897; Columbia University Ph.D., 1900), who studied under Cassius Jackson Keyser, was a prominent Jewish American mathematician who was appointed Tutor on Mathematics in the Columbia University Mathematics Department. Kasner was the first Jew appointed to a faculty position in the sciences at Columbia University.

·         Kasner's Ph.D. dissertation was titled The Invariant Theory of the Inversion Group.Kasner is perhaps best remembered today for introducing the term "googol". In or about 1920, in order to pique the interest of children, Kasner sought a name for a very large number: one followed by a hundred zeros. On a walk in the New Jersey Palisades with his nephews, Milton (1911–1981) and Edwin Sirotta, Kasner asked for their ideas. Nine-year-old Milton suggested "googol".

·         In 1940, with James R. Newman, Kasner co-wrote a non-technical book surveying the field of mathematics, called Mathematics and the Imagination (ISBN 0-486-41703-4). It was in this book that the term "googol" was first introduced: