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Last update: Thursday 09th of February 2012
| Yahoo Inc. | |
| Type | Public (NASDAQ: YHOO) |
|---|---|
| Founded | |
| Headquarters | Sunnyvale, California, USA |
| Key people | Terry Semel, Chairman & CEO Jerry Yang (楊致遠), co-founder, Chief Yahoo! David Filo, co-founder, Chief Yahoo! Dan Rosensweig, COO Susan Decker, CFO & EVP |
| Industry | Internet services |
| Products | (See complete products listing.) |
| Revenue | |
| Net income | |
| Employees | 11,000 (2006) |
| Slogan | Do you Yahoo!? |
| Website | www.yahoo.com |
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American global Internet services company. It operates an Internet portal and provides a full range of products and services including a search engine, the Yahoo! Directory and Yahoo! Mail. It was founded by Stanford graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo in January of 1994 and incorporated on March 2, 1995. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
According to Web trends companies among others Alexa Internet and Netcraft, Yahoo! has been the most visited website on the Internet with more than 412 million unique users. The global network of Yahoo! websites received 3.4 billion page views per day on average as of October 2005, making it one of the most visited U.S. websites.
Gmail has got almost 2.8 GB,Yahoo has got a GB,Lycos offers unlimited size attachments....What can rediff mail do to hold its existence in the market??
A search engine can be a Web site’s best friend. A listing near the top of Yahoo or Google could bring more eyeballs to your site than e-mail, banner ads, print media, and even television ads. And the best part is, search engines don’t cost you a dime.
Ever wondered where the term "French Kiss" came from, or exactly what a "hollaback girl" is? These questions and more have been in answered in Yahoo's Top Ten Questions of 2006.
The creation of the Presidential Election 2008 "über site" at Yahoo represents the portal's desire to be the 'town hall for voters across America.'
Dont know if this is much of a story though







