Yahoo!

Yahoo was founded in 1994 by Stanford Ph.D. students David Filo and Jerry Yang. It has since evolved into a major internet brand with search, content verticals, and other web services.

Yahoo! Inc. (Yahoo!), incorporated in 1995, is a global Internet brand. To users, the Company provides owned and operated online properties and services (Yahoo! Properties, Offerings, or Owned and Operated sites). Yahoo! also extends its marketing platform and access to Internet users beyond Yahoo! Properties through its distribution network of third-party entities (referred to as Affiliates) who have integrated its advertising offerings into their Websites (referred to as Affiliate sites) or their other offerings. To advertisers and publishers, it provides a range of marketing solutions and tools that enable businesses to reach users who visit Yahoo! Properties and its Affiliate sites. To developers, the Company provides an array of Web services and application programming interfaces (APIs), technical resources, tools, and channels to market.

The Company’s offerings to users fall into five categories: Front Doors; Search; Communications and Communities; Media, and Connected Life. The majority of its offerings are available in more than 20 languages. Yahoo! generates revenues by providing marketing services to advertisers across a majority of Yahoo! Properties and Affiliate sites. Additionally, although many of its user services are free, Yahoo! does charge for a range of premium services that it offers.

Milestones

Yahoo! — Yahoo is serving 18 billion ads a day (11/16/10) ⁷³
Posted 11/16/10 at 3:45pm via techcrunch.com
Yahoo! acquired Dapper for $55M. (10/5/10)
Posted 10/7/10 at 5:24am via clickz.com
Yahoo! added Jon Aizen as Director, Product Marketing. (10/1/10)
Posted 11/24/10 at 2:52pm
Yahoo! added Raymie Stata as CTO, Senior Vice President. (6/3/10)
Posted 6/3/10 at 11:30am
Yahoo! acquired Koprol. (5/25/10)
Posted 5/25/10 at 7:29pm via paidcontent.org
Yahoo! acquired Associated Content for $90M. (5/18/10)
Posted 5/18/10 at 12:37pm via techcrunch.com
Yahoo! added Blake Irving as Chief Product Officer. (5/1/10)
Posted 4/29/10 at 10:15am
Yahoo! acquired Citizen Sports. (3/17/10)
Posted 3/18/10 at 1:53am via paidcontent.org
Yahoo! acquired Maktoob for $164M. (2/26/10)
Posted 8/25/09 at 8:58am via paidcontent.org
Yahoo! added Parth Shah as Software Developer. (1/25/10)
Posted 7/22/10 at 4:36pm
Yahoo! added Shashi Seth as SVP, Search Products. (1/15/10)
Posted 1/15/10 at 3:04pm
Yahoo! invested in GeekStatus. (1/7/10)
Posted 8/3/10 at 7:45am via shareholder.com
Yahoo! added Erik Collier as Senior Director, Product Management. (1/6/10)
Posted 1/5/10 at 2:51pm
Yahoo! added Derek Gathright as Engineer. (11/23/09)
Posted 12/16/09 at 3:01pm
Yahoo! added khaled salah as Partner Relations Manager. (11/1/09)
Posted 10/2/10 at 6:07pm
Yahoo! added Shadi Al-Said as Senior Engineering Manager. (10/29/09)
Posted 3/19/10 at 12:30pm