First Trade Date for Yahoo! Inc.
| Company Name | First Trade Date (yyyy-mm-dd) |
| Yahoo! Inc. | 1996-04-12 |
| Company Name | Symbol |
| Yahoo! Inc. | YHOO |
| History and Business of Company (this information may include date of incorporation) | |
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Yahoo! Inc., together with its consolidated subsidiaries, ("Yahoo!", "Our" or "We") is a leading provider of comprehensive Internet products and services to consumers and businesses through our worldwide network of online properties (the "Yahoo! network"). Yahoo! was developed and first made available in 1994 by our founders, David Filo and Jerry Yang, while they were graduate students at Stanford University. Yahoo! was incorporated in 1995 and is a Delaware corporation. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, we have offices in North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America and Australia. We manage our business geographically; our principal areas of measurement and decision-making are the United States and International. Our properties and services for consumers and businesses currently reside in four areas: Search and Marketplace; Information and Content; Communications and Consumer Services; and Affiliate Services. Our basic products and service offerings are available without charge to our users. We also offer a variety of fee-based premium services that provide our users access to value-added content or services. In addition, we sell marketing and advertising services to businesses across the majority of our properties and services. During 2003, we completed the acquisitions of Inktomi Corporation ("Inktomi") and Overture Services, Inc. ("Overture") in March and October, respectively. Inktomi is a provider of Web search and paid inclusion services on the Internet. Overture is a provider of commercial search services on the Internet, including pay-for-performance search services. Since inception, we have acquired several other companies including those that provided databases, software, technologies, content, and/or tools to develop and expand upon our network of properties and services. We generate multiple sources of revenue across these properties and services that are classified as: Marketing Services, Fees and Listings. The following table presents an overview of our financial reporting structure as well as our properties and services. Our properties and service offerings are generally available without charge to our users. We generate revenues from marketing and listing services, and also offer fee-based premium services that provide our users access to additional content or services. | |
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