Also known as
  • Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle,
  • Yahoo
Yahoo! Inc. is a United States public corporation with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, (in Silicon Valley), and provides Internet services world-wide. They include a Web portal, a Web search engine, the Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, news, and posting. It was founded by Stanford University graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and incorporated on March 1, 1995.According to Web traffic analysis companies (including Compete.com, comScore, Alexa Internet, and Nielsen... full article at wikipedia

  Business

Date founded
  • Feb 1994
Headquarters
street address
city/town
state/province/region
postal code
country
  • 701 First Avenue
  • 94089
Revenue
currency
amount
valid date
  • 6,425,000,000.0
  • 6,425,700,000.0
  • Dec 31, 2006
Operating income
currency
amount
valid date
  • 1,000,000,000.0
  • 1,481,000,000.0
  • Dec 31, 2006
Market capitalization
currency
amount
valid date
  • 32,000,000,000.0
  • Dec 31, 2007
Net income
Major shareholders
Number of employees
number
date
  • 12,000
  • 2006
Ticker symbol
stock exchange
ticker symbol
  • YHOO
Slogan
  • Do You Yahoo!?
Previous names
Parent company
Spun off from
Acquired by
Companies acquired
company acquired
date
  • Sep 2007
  • Sep 2007
  • Oct 2007
  • 2000
  • 2002
  • 2005
  • 2004
  • Oct 2005
  • 2005
  • Dec 2002
Involved in merger
Product of merger
Business Locations