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| 2024 |
Flickr
Flickr reported sharing 10 billion photos and accepting 25 million new photos per day.
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| 2024 | Donated $250,000 to a committee supporting Daniel Lurie's candidacy for mayor of San Francisco. |
| 2024 | Became a leading donor to the United Democracy Project, a Super PAC affiliated with AIPAC. |
| 2024 | Donated $5 million to a Super PAC supporting Nikki Haley's presidential campaign. |
| December 2024 |
My Yahoo
My Yahoo! was discontinued, causing significant user protest and marking the end of the long-running personalized web portal service.
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| July 2024 | McHale clarifies in a GQ interview that production delays were due to his own schedule, and suggests a tentative shooting period in 2025. |
| April 2024 | Alison Brie reveals the script is completed and that she has read it. |
| April 2 2024 | Joel McHale confirms Chevy Chase will not participate in the Community movie. |
| April 1 2024 | Community moved to Peacock streaming platform. |
| April 1 2024 | The series moved exclusively to Peacock streaming platform. |
| March 2024 |
Webring
Webringo.com went down and became non-operational.
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| March 31 2024 | Community left Netflix platform. |
| February 2024 | Released her memoir 'Burn Book: A Tech Love Story' through Simon & Schuster. |
| February 2024 | Donald Glover confirms the movie script is complete and describes the plot as a college reunion featuring Abed as a big director. |
| 2023 | Hosted the official companion podcast for the fourth season of HBO's TV series Succession. |
| December 2023 | The California lawsuit against Activision Blizzard was settled, with the company agreeing to pay $54 million to address pay and promotion inequality. The settlement stated no evidence of wrongdoing by Kotick or the company's executives. |
| December 29 2023 | Retired from Activision Blizzard following the company's acquisition by Microsoft. |
| November 2023 | Koum acquired Château de la Garoupe in Cap d'Antibes on the French Riviera for approximately 65 million euros, a property previously owned by Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky. |
| June 2023 | McHale states filming will be set to begin in summer 2024 due to Hollywood labor disputes. |
| May 2023 |
Flickr
Flickr announced the development of the Print Shop feature, allowing photographers to sell prints via a storefront with approved sellers.
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| March 2023 | Yahoo! Japan GyaO video on-demand service was discontinued. |
| January 2023 | Joel McHale reveals on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that filming was originally planned to begin in June 2023. |
| 2022 |
GeoCities
NeoCities Neighborhoods, a remake of GeoCities, was created on Neocities, featuring the original 1996 version's interface.
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| 2022 | Donated $2 million to AIPAC during the Democratic Party primaries. |
| 2022 | Donated $600,000 to the Maccabee Task Force, $6 million to Friends of Ir David, and $175,000 to Central Fund of Israel. |
| 2022 | Donated $1 million to Fordham University and $41 million to Stanford University. |
| 2022 | Donated $17 million to the European Jewish Association and $10.6 million to the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS to support relief efforts during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. |
| 2022 | Levchin was interviewed on the NPR podcast 'How I Built This', discussing his early life and business experiences, including his pivotal role at PayPal. |
| November 2022 | Kotick oversaw the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, which broke franchise sales records by crossing $1 billion in ten days. |
| September 2022 | Peacock streaming service orders the Community film after a bidding war, with Harmon and Andrew Guest announced as writers. |
| September 26 2022 | Premiered the first episode of her podcast 'On with Kara Swisher' |
| August 2022 | Harmon states the movie is 'definitely going to happen' and could be expected in 'between one and eight years'. |
| June 2022 | Swisher announced her departure from The New York Times to pursue a new project at New York magazine. |
| June 2022 | Activision's Board filed findings with the SEC after an independent review, expressing confidence in Kotick's leadership despite workplace allegations. |
| April 6 2022 | Yahoo Japan discontinues services in the European Economic Area and the UK due to regulatory challenges. |
| March 17 2022 |
Flickr
Flickr revealed it had not deleted photos exceeding storage limits and announced a new policy restricting free users to 50 'non-public' images and limiting 'moderate' or 'restricted' content sharing to Pro users.
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| January 2022 | Microsoft announced its intent to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion, marking the largest video game company acquisition at the time. |
| 2021 |
Flickr
Despite declining popularity relative to social media and cloud storage platforms, Flickr remained among the top 500 most popular websites globally.
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| 2021 | Elected as a member of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences, recognizing her significant contributions to journalism and technology reporting. |
| 2021 | Signed a two-book memoir deal with Simon & Schuster. |
| 2021 | Hosted the official companion podcast for the third season of HBO's TV series Succession. |
| 2021 | Named to the Fast Company Queer 50 list for the second consecutive year, further cementing her status as a notable LGBTQ+ leader. |
| 2021 | Dan Harmon begins work on the Community movie script and confirms that logistical issues are mostly resolved. |
| 2021 | After his CFPB advisory board experience, called for increased tech industry engagement with regulators. |
| October 2021 | Kotick requested the Activision Blizzard board to reduce his salary to the lowest amount allowed by California law, refusing bonuses and equity amid company lawsuits. |
| September 2021 |
Yahoo
Jim Lanzone was appointed as the CEO of Yahoo.
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| September 1 2021 | AOL became part of the new Yahoo! Inc. |
| July 2021 | California Department of Fair Employment and Housing filed a lawsuit against Activision Blizzard for workplace misconduct and discrimination. |
| May 3 2021 | Verizon announced the sale of Yahoo and AOL to private equity firm Apollo Global Management for $5 billion. |
| January 2021 | Alex Stamos co-founded Krebs Stamos Group, a cybersecurity consultancy, with former CISA director Chris Krebs. The new firm's first client was SolarWinds, a company that had recently experienced significant cybersecurity challenges. |
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