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Encyclopedia > David Filo
David Filo

Yahoo! co-founder David Filo
Born: 1966
Wisconsin, US
Occupation: Co-founder and Chief Yahoo!, Yahoo! Inc.
Salary: $40,000,000
Net worth: $2.9 billion USD (2006)
Website: http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/management.cfm

David Filo (born 1966 in Wisconsin) is the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Yahoo! Inc. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Official language(s) None Capital Madison Largest city Milwaukee Area  Ranked 23rd  - Total 65,498 sq mi (169,790 km²)  - Width 260 miles (420 km)  - Length 310 miles (500 km)  - % water 17  - Latitude 42°30N to 47°3N  - Longitude 86°49W to 92°54W Population  Ranked... United States may refer to: Places: United States of America SS United States, the fastest ocean liner ever built. ... For the computer game previously called Entrepreneur, see The Corporate Machine. ... Yahoo! Inc. ... Image File history File links Green_Arrow_Up. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Official language(s) None Capital Madison Largest city Milwaukee Area  Ranked 23rd  - Total 65,498 sq mi (169,790 km²)  - Width 260 miles (420 km)  - Length 310 miles (500 km)  - % water 17  - Latitude 42°30N to 47°3N  - Longitude 86°49W to 92°54W Population  Ranked... Yahoo! Inc. ... Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang (Traditional Chinese: 楊致遠; pinyin: Yáng ZhìyuÇŽn; born November 6, 1968) is the Taiwanese American co-founder of Yahoo! Inc. ...


David Filo, at age 6, moved to Moss Bluff, Louisiana, a suburb of Lake Charles, Louisiana. He graduated from Sam Houston High School and then earned a BS in Computer Engineering from Tulane University (through the Dean's Honor Scholarship) and a MS from Stanford University. Moss Bluff is a census-designated place (CDP) in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States. ... This article is about the City of Lake Charles, La. ... Computer engineering (also called electronic and computer engineering) is a discipline that combines elements of both electrical engineering and computer science. ... Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana. ... Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana. ... Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles northwest of San José in Stanford, California. ...


Until the company recently decided to switch to PHP (A programming language for creating dynamic websites), his Filo Server Program, written in C, would provide Filo Server Pages that brokered requests from the Yahoo! home page. PHP (PHP:Hypertext Preprocessor) is a reflective programming language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages. ... Wikibooks has a book on the topic of C Programming The C programming language (often, just C) is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative computer programming language developed in the early 1970s by Dennis Ritchie for use on the Unix operating system. ...


According to Forbes, in 2006, Filo is worth an estimated $2.9 billion, ranking him the 240th richest person in the world. As a philanthropist, in 2005 he donated $30 million to his alma mater, Tulane University, for use in the now defunct School of Engineering. Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana. ...


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