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|foundation Santa Clara, founder [[Jerry Yang (entrepreneur)|Jerry Yang location_city 701 First Avenue[[Sunnyvale, California|Sunnyvale, location_country [[United States
|industry Internet, area_served [[Worldwide
|key_people Carol Bartz, CEORoy J. Bostock, ChairmanJerry Yang, Co-founderproducts (see [[list of Yahoo!-owned sites and services)
|revenue operating_income [[United States dollar|$ 4.13 billion (2008)"2009financials" />
|net_income assets [[United States dollar|$ 13.689 billion (2008)"2009financials" />
|equity $ 11.250 billion (2008)"2009financials" />
|slogan "Do you Yahoo?"
|homepage
}}
Yahoo! Inc. () 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 Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995.
On January 13, 2009, Yahoo! appointed Carol Bartz, former executive chairperson of Autodesk, as its new chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors.
According to Web traffic analysis companies (including Compete.com, comScore, Alexa Internet,"alexa"> Netcraft,"netcraft"> and Nielsen Ratings), the domain yahoo.com attracted at least 1.575 billion visitors annually by 2008. The global network of Yahoo! websites receives 3.4 billion page views per day on average . It is the second most visited website in the world in May 2009.http://blog.sfaranda.com/50-most-visited-websites-in-may-2009/
History and growth
Early history (1994–1999)
In January 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo were Electrical Engineering graduate students at Stanford University. In read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!