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Yahoo!

Yahoo Inc.
Yahoo! logo.svg
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Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA
Type of site
Public
Traded as NASDAQYHOO
NASDAQ-100 Component
S&P 500 Component
Founded January 1994; 23 years ago (1994-01) (as Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide Web)
March 2, 1995; 22 years ago (1995-03-02)
(as Yahoo!)
Headquarters Sunnyvale, California, U.S.
Area served Worldwide
Founder(s)
Key people David Filo (Chief Yahoo)
Maynard Webb (Chairman)
Marissa Mayer (CEO)
Industry Internet
Computer software
Products Yahoo! News
Yahoo! Mail
Yahoo! Finance
Yahoo! Sports
Yahoo! Search
Yahoo! Messenger
Yahoo! Answers
Tumblr
Flickr
See Yahoo products
Revenue Increase $5.16 billion (2016)
Operating income Increase $-645 million (2016)
Net income Increase $-214 million (2016)
Total assets Increase $48.08 billion (2016)
Total equity Increase $31.04 billion (2016)
Employees 8,500 (2016)
Subsidiaries Yahoo subsidiaries
Website yahoo.com
Alexa rank Increase5 (Global, March 2017)

Yahoo Inc. (also known simply as Yahoo!) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early internet era in the 1990s.Marissa Mayer, a former Google executive, Google Employee number 20, and Google's first female Engineer, serves as CEO and President of Yahoo.

It is globally known for its Web portal, search engine Yahoo! Search, and related services, including Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping, video sharing, fantasy sports, and its social media website. It is one of the most popular sites in the United States. According to third-party web analytics providers, Alexa and SimilarWeb, Yahoo! is the highest-read news and media website, with over 7 billion views per month, being the sixth most visited website globally, As of 28 December 2016. According to news sources, roughly 700 million people visit Yahoo websites every month. Yahoo itself claims it attracts "more than half a billion consumers every month in more than 30 languages".


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