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Interesting Business Facts: Yahoo’s Meaning, Happy Birthday Song, Founder Of FedEx, and Siri

This section of the site is called “Interesting Business Facts”. 

And it’s purpose is just that – to present business facts that you probably haven’t heard of before.

Here are 4 business facts for today:

yahoo acronym

  • Yahoo” is an acronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.”
  • Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song ‘Happy Birthday’. They make over $1 million in royalties every year from the commercial use of the song.
  • The founder of FedEx once saved the company by taking its last $5,000 and turning it into $32,000 by gambling in Las Vegas.
  • Everything you say to Siri is sent to Apple, analyzed, and stored

Sources: BusinessInsider.com & CollingwoodSearch.co.uk

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