Yahoo!
Yahoo grew rapidly throughout the 1990s. Yahoo went public in April 1996 and its stock price rose by 600 percent within two years. Like many search engines and web directories, Yahoo added a web portal, putting it in competition with services like Excite, Lycos and America Online. By 1998, Yahoo was the most popular starting point for web users, and the human-edited Yahoo Directory the most popular search engine, receiving 95 million page views per day which was triple the number compared to rival Excite. It also made many high-profile acquisitions. Yahoo began offering free e-mail from October 1997 after the acquisition of RocketMail, which was then renamed to Yahoo! Mail. In 1998, Yahoo! decided to replace AltaVista as the crawler-based search engine underlying the Directory with Inktomi. Yahoo's two biggest acquisitions were made in 1999 - that of Geocities for $3.6 billion, and Broadcast.com for $5.7 billion.
New York Evening Mail
The paper was founded as the "New York Evening Mail" in 1867 and published under that name through 1877. It then went through some minor name changes, becoming the "New York Mail" for about a year (November 1877 – November 1878), and then "The Mail" (through late 1879). It then became the "Evening Mail" from 1879 through December 1881, when owner Cyrus West Field acquired the "New York Evening Express" (which had been founded by James and Erastus Brooks as a Whig paper in June 1836), and created "The Mail and Express". It retained the "Mail and Express" moniker until 1904, when it eventually became the "Evening Mail" once again. In 1915 the newspaper was acquired by Edward Rumely with financing from a source in Germany. Rumely felt that most American newspapers were taking a pro British side threatening neutrality.