Yahoo! Inc Case Study
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Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO)
701 First Ave.
Sunnyvale, California
94089-1019
United States
Tel: (408) 731-3300
Fax: (408)731-3301
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Business Services: Internet search engine, audio and video streaming, store hosting and management, and Web site tools and services.
Variant Names Four11 Corp. - Merger
Viaweb Inc. - Merger 1998/06/01
HYPERparallel Inc. - Merger 1998/12/01
Launch Media Inc. - Acquisition 2001/06/27
Broadcast.com Inc. - Merger 1999/07/31
GeoCities - Merger
DialPad Communications Inc. - Merger
HotJobs Software - Merger 2002/02/01
Musicmatch Inc. - Merger
Network Software Company Ltd. - Merger
SIC Codes 7375 - Information Retrieval Services
NAICS Codes 518111 - Internet Service Providers
Annual Sales $7,709.00 M Operating revenue, Company Press Release
Employees 14,300, Company Press Release
Sales/Employees $539,090.00
Year Founded 1994
Fiscal Year Dec 31, 2008
SMSA Code 4480 - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
Features Public Company, Headquarters Location
Ticker (Stock Exch) YHOO (NASDAQ)
Principal Shareholders FMR Corp. (12.5)
David Filo (7.9)
Jerry Yang (6.7)
Terry S. Semel (1.2)
URL http://www.yahoo.com
History
Yahoo! Inc.
1994 April: David Filo and Jerry Yang, both Ph.D. candidates in electrical engineering at Stanford University, compile a list of their favorite Web sites and place it on a site entitled Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web.
1994: The list grows, along with the number of site users. Filo and Yang begin spending more time on their list and convert it to a database that users can search through to locate specific Web sites. The pair change the site name to Yahoo!,
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