Yahoo! Mail
Yahoo! made a deal with the online communications company Four11 for co-branded white pages. Marvin Gavin, who worked at Four11 as the Director of International Business Development, said "We always had a bias about being acquired by Yahoo. They were more entrepreneurial than Microsoft. We had a great cultural fit – it made a lot of sense." In the end, Yahoo! acquired Four11 for $96 million. The purpose behind acquiring Four11 was the company's RocketMail webmail service, which launched in 1997. Yahoo! announced the acquisition on October 8, 1997, close to the time that Yahoo! Mail was launched. Yahoo! chose acquisition rather than internal platform development, because, as Healy said, "Hotmail was growing at thousands and thousands users per week. We did an analysis. For us to build, it would have taken four to six months, and by then, so many users would have taken an email account. The speed of the market was critical."
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.