Yahoo!

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This article is about the corporation. For the search engine, see Yahoo! Search. For other uses, see
Yahoo (disambiguation).
Yahoo Inc.

Type

Public
NASDAQ: YHOO
Traded as
NASDAQ-100 Component
S&P 500 Component
January 1994 (as Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide Web)
Founded
March 1995
(as Yahoo!)
Headquarters Sunnyvale, California, U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Founder(s)
Jerry Yang, David Filo
Chairman
Maynard Webb
CEO
Marissa Mayer
David Filo
Key people
(Chief Yahoo)[1]
Media
Internet
Industry
Computer software
Web search engine
Yahoo News
Yahoo Mail
Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Sports
Yahoo Search
Products
Yahoo Messenger
Yahoo! Answers
Tumblr
Flickr
See Yahoo products
Revenue
US$4.61 billion (2014)[2]
Operating income US$143 million (2014)[3]
Net income
US$7.52 billion (2014)[4]

Total assets
US$61.9 billion (2014)[5]
Total equity
US$38.74 billion (2014)[6]
Employees
11,000 (2015)[7]
Subsidiaries
Yahoo subsidiaries
Website
www
Alexa rank
5 (January 2016)[8]
Yahoo Inc. (styled as Yahoo!) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in
Sunnyvale, California. 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.[9] According to third-party web
analytics providers, Alexa and SimilarWeb, Yahoo! is the highest-read news and media website, with
over 7 billion readers per month, being the fourth most visited website globally, as of June 2015.[8][10]
[11] According to news sources, roughly 700 million people visit Yahoo websites every month.[12][13]
Yahoo itself claims it attracts "more than half a billion consumers every month in more than 30
languages."[14]
Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1,
1995. Marissa Mayer, a former Google executive, serves as CEO and President of the company.[15]
In January 2015, the company announced it planned to spin-off its stake in Alibaba Group in a
separately listed company. In December 2015 it reversed this decision, opting instead to spin-off its
internet business as a separate company.[16]