Type: Public (NASDAQ: YHOO)
Founded: Santa Clara, California (March 1, 1995)
Founders: Jerry Yang, David Filo
Headquarters: 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, California, United States
Area served: Worldwide
Key people: Carol Bartz, CEO, Roy J. Bostock, Chairman, Jerry Yang, Co-founder, David Filo, Co-founder
Industry: Internet, computer software
Revenue: ▼ $ 7.208 billion (2008)[1]
Operating income: ▼ $ 4.13 billion (2008)[1]
Net income: ▼ $ 4.242 billion (2008)[1]
Total assets: ▲ $ 13.689 billion (2008)[1]
Total equity: ▲ $ 11.250 billion (2008)[1]
Employees: 13,500 (Q1 2009)[2]
Website: Yahoo.com
Yahoo! Inc. NASDAQ: YHOO is a computer services company with a mission to "be the most essential global Internet service for consumers and businesses". It operates an Internet portal, the Yahoo! Directory and a host of other services including the popular Yahoo! Mail. It was founded by Stanford graduate students David Filo and Jerry Yang in January 1994 and incorporated on March 2, 1995. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
On January 13, 2009, Yahoo! appointed Carol Bartz, former executive chairperson of Autodesk, as its new chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors.
According to Web traffic analysis companies (including Compete.com, comScore, Alexa Internet, Netcraft, and Nielsen Ratings), the domain yahoo.com attracted at least 1.575 billion visitors annually by 2008. The global network of Yahoo! websites receives 3.4 billion page views per day on average as of October 2007. It is the second most visited website in the world in May 2009.
Links
- Yahoo website
- Yahoo addresses
- Yahoo calendar
- Yahoo mail
- Yahoo notepad
- Yodel anecdotal corporate blog
- Corporate milestones
- The History of Yahoo! - How It All Started …
- Earliest known Yahoo! website from 1996
- Jerry and Dave's Excellent Venture 'video about the beginnings of Yahoo
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