History of Yahoo!
On March 8, 1997, Yahoo! acquired online communications company Four11. Four11's webmail service, Rocketmail, became Yahoo! Mail. Yahoo! also acquired ClassicGames.com and turned it into Yahoo! Games. Yahoo! then acquired direct marketing company Yoyodyne Entertainment, Inc. on October 12, 1998. In January 1999, Yahoo! acquired web hosting provider GeoCities. Another company Yahoo! took over was eGroups, which became Yahoo! Groups in June 2000. On March 8, 1998, Yahoo! launched Yahoo! Pager, an instant messaging service that was renamed Yahoo! Messenger a year later.
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.