Yahoo! Inc. is a
computer software
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and
web search engine
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company founded on March 1, 1995. The company is a
public corporation and its headquarters is located in
Sunnyvale, California
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Sunnyvale lies along the historic El Camino Real (California), El Camino Real and U.S. Route 101 in California, Highway 1 ...
. It was founded by
Stanford University
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graduate students
Jerry Yang
Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang (; born Yang Chih-Yuan; November 6, 1968) is a Taiwanese-born American billionaire computer programmer, internet entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc. and founding partne ...
and
David Filo
David Robert Filo (born April 20, 1966) is an American billionaire businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with classmate Jerry Yang. His Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side software used to dynamica ...
in 1994.
According to web
traffic analysis
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companies, Yahoo has been one of the most visited websites on the Internet, with more than 130 million
unique user
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s per month in the United States alone.
Yahoo's first acquisition was the purchase of
Net Controls, a
web search engine
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company, in September 1997 for US$1.4 million. As of April 2008, the company's largest acquisition is the purchase of
Broadcast.com, an
Internet radio
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company, for $5.7 billion, making Broadcast.com co-founder
Mark Cuban
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a billionaire. Most of the companies acquired by Yahoo are based in the United States; 78 of the companies are from the United States, and 15 are based in a foreign country. As of July 2015, the first incarnation of Yahoo had acquired 114 companies, with
Polyvore
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being the latest.
In 2017, the first incarnation Yahoo! Inc. was purchased by
Verizon Communications
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and merged with
AOL
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The service traces its history to an online ...
. In May 2021, Verizon sold a majority stake in the combined company, then called Verizon Media, to
Apollo Global Management
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, who restored the Yahoo! name.
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Acquisitions (1998 - 2017)
Acquisitions (2021 - present)
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List of largest mergers and acquisitions
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Lists of corporate acquisitions and mergers
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By industry
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Yahoo
Yahoo (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web portal that provides the search engine Yahoo Search and related services including My Yahoo, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, y!entertainment, yahoo!life, an ...
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