Yahoo!

Guide Note:

Incorporated and founded in Sunnyvale, California, Yahoo! is an internet service company providing such products as: news, e-mail, a directory, and a web portal. Yahoo was founded by current CEO, Jerry Yang and David Filo while the two were studying as graduate students at Stanford University. Prior to the advent of competing search engine Google, Yahoo! was the Web's most popular search engine. The company remains a central portal for e-mail and news. On February 1, 2008, Microsoft made an offer to purchase Yahoo! for $44.6 billion. However, this offer was declined by the company because the board felt that the offer was too low.

Early On

The idea of the company was born when Yang started a web page with a listing of his favorite links. By the end of 1994, the website was renamed to "Yahoo!" based on the Jonathan Swift story, Gulliver's Travels. That same year, the company received 1 million unique visitors. A year later, on March 1, 1995, Yahoo! went public.

Yahoo from 2000-2008

At the height of the late 1990s, early 2000 tech bubble, Yahoo was trading in excess of $400 a share. It was also the only company to reach ¥100,000,000 in Japan at the time. In September 2001, Yahoo! stock had plummeted to an all-time low of approximately $4.00 a share. Since then the company has responded to heavy competition with Google by diversifying its product base, cutting internal costs, and making strategic partnerships (i.e. Verizon in 2005).

Fast Facts

Ticker: YHOO (NASDAQ)
Incorporated in 1995
Headquartered: Sunnyvale, California
CEO: Jerry Yang
Sequoia Capital funded
Founders: Jerry Yang and David Filo
Rejected purchase offer by Microsoft for $44.6 billion
In 2000 used Google as default search engine

Also try: Yahoo! Layoffs | Microsoft Yahoo | News Corp Yahoo

The Mahalo Top 7

Official Site: Yahoo! | Careers | Corporate Information | Contact | Press Room | Investor Relations
Yahoo! Mail
Everything Yahoo!
Wikipedia: Yahoo!
Blog Post: "Essential Yahoo! Shortcuts" (September 13, 2006)
Silicon Alley Insider: The Yahoo Body Count: Who's Gone So Far (February 18, 2008)
Yahoo! Search Blog

Yahoo! Acquisition News

Microsoft.com: Microsoft Withdraws Proposal to Acquire Yahoo! (May 3, 2008)
CNN Money: Report: News Corp, Yahoo discuss joining forces (February 13, 2008)
Computerworld UK: Official: Yahoo rejects Microsoft bid (February 11, 2008)
PaidContent.org: Yahoo Considering Combo With AOL? (February 10, 2008)
TechCrunch: Decision Time For Yahoo (February 6, 2008)
Techworld.com: Ballmer Dismisses Anti-Competitive Accusations (February 4, 2008)
Reuters: Yahoo deal could pry ad market from Google's grip (February 2, 2008)
SFGate.com: Microsoft makes unsolicited $44.6 billion bid to buy Yahoo (February 1, 2008)
San Jose Mercury News: Microsoft makes unexpected 44.6B offer for Yahoo (February 1, 2008)
Bloomberg.com: Microsoft Offers to Buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion (February 1, 2008)

Yahoo! Financial Info

Yahoo! Finance: Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO)
Google Finance: Yahoo!
The New York Times: Yahoo! Inc.
Funding Universe: Yahoo!
Hoovers.com: Yahoo!
Blogging Stocks: Yahoo!

Yahoo! Recent News

Topix.net: Yahoo! News
Yahoo! News
Google News: Yahoo!
CNET: Yahoo showing signs of life, albeit too late | Coop's Corner : A Blog from Charlie Cooper (March 16, 2008)
ReadWriteWeb: Yahoo! Launches Live Video Service and We Cover it...Live...Sort of (February 7, 2008)
The New York Times: Yahoo Acquires Ad Technology Company (February 13, 2008)
TechCrunch: In The Middle of The Storm, Yahoo! Acquires Israeli FoxyTunes (February 4, 2008)
CNET News: Yahoo axes music service, strikes deal with Rhapsody (February 4, 2008)
TechCrunch: News Corp. Scrambles To Bid For Yahoo (February 2, 2008)
CNN.com: Microsoft Bids $45 Billion for Yahoo (February 1, 2008)
- "Microsoft hopes to close the deal by the end of the year. Ballmer [Microsoft's chief executive] said that Microsoft has been in "off and on" talks with Yahoo for 18 months"
TechCrunch: Yahoo To Announce Large Video Acquisition—Maven Networks For $150 Million (January 31, 2008)
The New York Times: Yahoo Will Cut 1,000 Jobs (January 30, 2008)
TechCrunch: Yahoo May Offer DRM Free Music For Free (January 23, 2008)
The New York Times: "Hundreds of Layoffs Expected at Yahoo" (January 22, 2008)
The New York Times: Trying to Fine-Tune Yahoo (January 14, 2008)
- "Mr. Yang displayed a prototype version of Yahoo’s popular e-mail software that had been transformed into a powerful communications hub. It could, for example, tap into social networks to give higher priority to messages coming from senders with close ties to their recipients. And it could use other developers’ programs to help organize a dinner for a group of people."
ZDNet.com: Jerry Yang offers sneak peak of Yahoo’s future (January 8, 2007)
Webware: Yahoo Kickstarts a Social Service Aimed at College Grads (November 4, 2007)
PC Magazine: "Semel Out as Yahoo! CEO" (June 18, 2007)
ABC News: "Microhoo? Purchase of Yahoo by Microsoft Could Challenge Google's Dominance" (May 4, 2007)
CNET News: "In Ad Wars, Yahoo Aims for Right Touch" (April 30, 2007)
Wired: "How Yahoo Blew It" (February 2007)

Yahoo! Sites and Services

Shopping

Entertainment

Services

Downloads

Affiliates and Acquistions

Yahoo! Blogs and Message Boards

Yahoo! Search Blog | Yahoo! Widgets Blog | Yahoo! Buzz Log
Slashdot: Yahoo!
Technorati: Yahoo!
Tech Crunch: Yahoo Embraces The Semantic Web - Expect The Internet To Organize Itself In A Hurry (March 13, 2008)
Webware: Ballmer: Yahoo brand will live (February 7, 2008)
Download Squad: Yahoo! now offering "unlimited" web hosting (February 6, 2008)
Engadget: Yahoo! Music Unlimited shuttered -- customers feel the Rhapsody (February 4, 2008)
Webware: Yang e-mail reaches out to Yahoo employees (February 4, 2008)
Boing Boing: "Yahoo! Aided China in Torture..." (April 19, 2007)
Micro Persuasion: "Essential Yahoo! Shortcuts" (September 13, 2006)

Yahoo! Books

Yahoo! Hacks by Paul Bausch
Starting a Yahoo! Business For Dummies by Rob Snell
Yahoo! for Dummies by Brad Hill
Inside Yahoo! Reinvention and the Road Ahead by Karen Angel

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