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Yahoo! Inc.
Type
Public (NASDAQ: YHOO)
Founded

Santa Clara, California
(March 1, 1995)
Headquarters
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, California, USA
Key people
Jerry Yang, CEO, Chief Yahoo! and Co-founder
David Filo, Chief Yahoo! and Co-founder
Susan Decker, President
Industry
Internet, computer software
Products
(See list of Yahoo! products)
Revenue
$6.7 billion USD (2007)[1]
Operating income
$730 million USD (2007)[2]
Employees
13,600 (October 18, 2007)
Slogan
"Do you Yahoo!?"
Website
www.yahoo.com
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American public corporation and global Internet services company. It provides a range of products and services including a web portal, a 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 of 1994 and incorporated on March 2, 1995. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
According to Web traffic analysis companies (including Comscore, Alexa Internet and Netcraft), Yahoo! has been one of the most visited websites on the Internet,[3] with more than 130 million unique users per month.[4] The global network of Yahoo! websites receives 3.4 billion page views per day on average as of October 2007, making it one of the most visited U.S. websites.[5]
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