Yahoo Company Profile:
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Yahoo is an
American technology company that offers web portal, search engine, mail, news, finance and video sharing services. Yahoo was founded in
January 1994. Yahoo's
Headquarters are located at
701 First Avenue,
Sunnyvale, California,
USA 94089. It has raised $283.5M in 2 rounds. The latest round was in
1996. Yahoo's primary investor is
Sequoia Capital. Some of Yahoo's latest acquisitions include Ikyu
Corporation, Polyvore,
Inc. and MEDIA GROUP ONE
Digital GmbH. Yahoo's
President &
CEO,
Marissa Mayer, currently has an approval rating of 73%
. 45% of the Owler community believes the stock will go
Neutral. Yahoo has 12,
500 employees and reported $4.7B in revenue [trailing four quarters]. Yahoo's primary competitors are
Facebook,
Google,
AOL,
Apple, Yelp, Abaqus, Docplexus, Valin,
Vanity Global and
Panera Bread.
Visit the Yahoo website to learn more.
Yahoo, Inc. (
NASDAQ:
YHOO) is an American multinational technology company that provides search engine, content management, and social media services. Yahoo is known around the world for its web portal and search engine Yahoo, and its affiliated services, such as
Yahoo Directory,
Yahoo Mail,
Yahoo News,
Yahoo Finance,
Yahoo Groups,
Yahoo Answers,
Yahoo Travel,
Yahoo Shopping, Yahoo Autos,
Yahoo Real Estate, advertising, online mapping, video sharing, fantasy sports, a social media website, and in
Asia,
Yahoo Auctions. Yahoo also provides services for small businesses with
Yahoo DomainKeys,
Yahoo Web Hosting, Yahoo
Merchant Solutions, Yahoo
Business Email and
Yahoo Store.
Yahoo Mobile also offers services for email, instant messaging, mobile blogging, information services, services, and alerts. With this, Yahoo partnered with big-name broadband providers, such as
AT&T;,
Verizon Communications,
Rogers Communications and
British Telecom, to offer a range of free and premium Yahoo content and services to their customers. These branches make Yahoo one of the most popular websites in the
United States. Yahoo offers a multi-lingual
interface that makes Yahoo's resources available in over 30 languages. Yahoo has been working to improve their accessibility to disabled communities through the Yahoo Accessibility Lab.
Jerry Yang and
David Filo founded Yahoo in
1994 in Sunnyvale, California (CA). Yahoo is now headquartered at 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, California (CA). Yahoo grew at its fastest pace through the
1990s. Yahoo was the most popular starting
point for web users in
1998. Yahoo reached its stock-market all-time high in year
2000. Sequoia Capital is the only venture fund that invested in Yahoo. Yahoo completed an
IPO in 1996 for $280.5M under the ticker YHOO. Yahoo consists of 116 companies for a total of $18.2B. Some of Yahoo's major acquisitions include MEDIA GROUP ONE Digital GmbH, Cooliris, Inc., and Brightroll, Inc. Yahoo purchased Tumblr in
2013, as the blogging site was becoming one of the most thriving social-networking and communication hubs. Yahoo has come under scrutiny for the array of acquisitions it has made. Critics have said that Yahoo lacks a strategy in its choice of acquisitions
and that many of the companies it has chosen to acquire do not make sense for Yahoo's business. Additionally, Yahoo has come under pressure from activist investor
Jeffrey Smith of
Starboard Capital for its acquisition strategy; the activist fund is pressuring Yahoo to merge with AOL and says that Yahoo is now more of a content company than a search site. Yahoo is also famous for its early investment in
Chinese e-commerce site
Alibaba. When Alibaba completed its IPO in late 2014 Yahoo, along with SoftBank, held the largest stake in the company.
At the beginning of
2015, Yahoo's stock in Alibaba was worth $39B, which made Yahoo's shares in Alibaba more valuable than Yahoo itself. In late 2015 Yahoo is expected to spin off its shares of Alibaba into a holding company that will exist for the sole purpose of returning that value to Yahoo's shareholders without enduring crushing taxes. Yahoo's current President and CEO is Marissa Mayer, a former Google executive. Marissa Mayer is frequently recognized as one of the leading women in tech. Former executives at Yahoo include
Ross Levinsohn,
Scott Thompson,
Tim Morse,
Carol Bartz, Jerry Yang,
Terry Semel, and
Timothy Koogle. Yahoo employs 125,
000 people. Yahoo had an estimated $4.4B in revenue in 2013. Yahoo competes primarily with Facebook, Google, and
Microsoft.
- published: 15 Mar 2016
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