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March 2023 Yahoo! Japan GyaO video on-demand service was discontinued.
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.
April 6 2022 Yahoo Japan discontinues services in the European Economic Area and the UK due to regulatory challenges.
2021 After his CFPB advisory board experience, called for increased tech industry engagement with regulators.
September 1 2021 AOL became part of the new Yahoo! Inc.
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.
2020 Forbes ranked Acton as the 836th-richest person in the world, with a net worth of $2.5 billion.
December 15 2020 AOL's original chat system was completely shut down.
November 2020 The Huffington Post was sold to BuzzFeed in a stock deal.
2019 Forbes reported that Brian Acton and his wife had donated more than $1 billion to charitable causes over their lifetimes.
2019 Listed his San Francisco home for $7.25 million and moved from the city after living there since 2007.
November 2019 In an interview with journalist Steven Levy, Acton explained his public criticism of Facebook, citing mounting pressure against the company.
October 2019 Announced a specification for a new Lisp dialect called Bel, which was written in itself.
July 2019 Facebook agreed to pay $100 million to settle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for misleading investors about user data misuse during the period of 2015-2018.
March 2019 Yahoo! Japan GeoCities was discontinued.
March 31 2019 Yahoo! Search Custom Search was discontinued.
January 2019 Oath Inc. rebranded itself as Verizon Media.
2018 Stata became product and technology advisor for Aqfer and stepped down from the board of trustees of the Computer History Museum.
2018 AOL Toolbar, a Mozilla plug-in browser toolbar, was discontinued after being available since 2007.
2018 Made plans to leave Facebook following disagreements with executives about addressing Russian government disinformation during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and transitioned to a research professorship at Stanford University.
2018 Made plans to leave Facebook following disagreements with executives about addressing Russian government disinformation during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and transitioned to a research professorship at Stanford University.
2018 Made plans to leave Facebook following disagreements with executives about addressing Russian government disinformation during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and transitioned to a research professorship at Stanford University.
2018 Made plans to leave Facebook following disagreements with executives about addressing Russian government disinformation during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and transitioned to a research professorship at Stanford University.
2018 Made plans to leave Facebook following disagreements with executives about addressing Russian government disinformation during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and transitioned to a research professorship at Stanford University.
December 31 2018 By the end of the year, Acton's loan to Signal Technology Foundation increased to $105,000,400, with a repayment date set for February 28, 2068.
September 10 2018 AOL's parent company Oath consolidated BrightRoll, One by AOL, and Yahoo Gemini into a single advertising platform called Oath Ad Platforms (later renamed Yahoo! Ad Tech).
July 2018 Facebook notified users about the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting, which had occurred before Stamos's tenure but was known to the company since 2015.
April 2018 Oath Inc. sold Moviefone to MoviePass Parent Helios and Matheson Analytics.
March 2018 Reported departure from Facebook as chief security officer (CSO) following disagreements about addressing Russian disinformation during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
March 29 2018 Yahoo! Japan officially abolished the 'Yahoo! Category' directory-based search engine.
March 20 2018 Forbes reported Acton publicly supported the #DeleteFacebook movement, expressing criticism of Facebook.
February 2018 Acton invested $50 million into Signal as a loan to the newly formed Signal Technology Foundation.
2017 Sunlight Giving further increased its charitable grants to $23.6 million.
2017 Verizon Communications acquires Yahoo's core internet business for approximately $4.83 billion, but does not affect Yahoo Japan's operations.
2017 AOL Desktop Gold, a new paid version priced at $4.99 per month, was released. This version replaced the previous free version and maintained access to AOL's original chat rooms after the shutdown of AIM.
2017 Delivered a keynote address at Black Hat Briefings, advocating for broadening the definition of security and promoting diversity in the cybersecurity industry.
December 15 2017 AOL discontinued AIM, its long-running instant messaging service that had been sending billions of messages daily before its shutdown.
September 2017 Brian Acton left WhatsApp to start the Signal Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to providing private, encrypted communication.
September 2017 Left WhatsApp to pursue other ventures.
June 29 2017 Yahoo! Japan announced the planned abolishment of its long-standing directory-based search engine 'Yahoo! Category'.
February 24 2017 AOL officially shut down Lifestream, giving users one month to save their uploaded photos and videos before completely discontinuing user profile hosting services.
2016 Sunlight Giving increased its charitable grants to $19.2 million.
2016 Acton led a funding round for Trak N Tell, raising $3.5 million along with two other investors.
2016 Altiscale was acquired by SAP for more than $125 million. Stata became senior vice president of big data services for about a year following the acquisition.
2016 Max Levchin established the Levchin Prize, an annual award recognizing significant advancements in cryptography that have practical real-world applications.
2016 Concluded his service on Evernote's board of directors.
2016 Graham and his family established a permanent residence in England after living in the United States for 48 years.
July 2016 Scott Thompson departed from his role as CEO of ShopRunner after a four-year tenure.
July 2016 Verizon Communications announced its intent to purchase Yahoo's core internet business, later merging AOL and Yahoo into a new company called Oath Inc.

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