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Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American public corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, (in Silicon Valley), that provides Internet services worldwide. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine (Yahoo! Search), Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, advertising, online mapping (Yahoo! Maps), video sharing (Yahoo! Video), and social media websites and services. Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David ... more
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Founders

David Filo

David Filo (born 20 April 1966 in Wisconsin) is an American businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang. Until the company decided to switch to...

Jerry Yang

Jerry Yang (simplified Chinese: 杨致远; traditional Chinese: 楊致遠; pinyin: Yáng Zhìyuǎn; born November 6, 1968) is a Chinese American entrepreneur and the co...

Address

Yahoo! Headquarters

701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale California 94089
United States of America

Revenue:

Currency Amount Valid Date
  • 6,425,700,000
  • Dec 31, 2006

Operating income:

Currency Amount Valid Date
  • 1,481,000,000
  • Dec 31, 2006

Market capitalization:

Currency Amount Valid Date
  • 32,000,000,000
  • Dec 31, 2007

Board members:

Member Title From To
  • 2008
  • 2001
  • 2008
  • Oct 2000
  • 1996
  • 2005
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Number of employees:

number date
  • 12,000
  • 2006

Ticker symbol:

Stock exchange Ticker symbol
  • YHOO

Slogan:

  • Do You Yahoo!?

Subsidiary companies:

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Companies acquired:

Company acquired Date
  • Sep 2007
  • Sep 2007
  • Oct 2007
  • 2000
  • 2002
  • 2005
  • 2004
  • Oct 2005
  • 2005
  • Dec 2002
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Venture Investors:

Investor Investment Round

Employees and other personnel:

Person Title From To
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • Jun 2007
  • 1995
  • Apr 1999
  • Jun 2001
  • Jan 1996
  • Apr 1999
  • Nov 2004
  • 2001
  • Jun 18, 2007
  • 2005
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Website category:

Website status:

Website launched:

  • Jan 1994

Sub Web Properties:

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Websites Owned:

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Software:

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Appears in ranked lists:

List Rank Year
  • 345
  • 2009
  • 353
  • 2008
  • 412
  • 2006
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News-reports:

Event Url Title Date
  • Wreckage of plane found in Indonesian mountains
  • Jan 3, 2007
  • Ethiopian jets bomb airports in Somalia
  • Jan 1, 2007
  • All 45 on Pakistani plane killed in crash
  • Jul 10, 2006
  • Protesters rally outside Iranian embassy in London
  • Jun 14, 2009
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