Yahoo! Inc Case Study
Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO)
701 First Ave.
Sunnyvale, California
94089-1019
United States
(408) 731-3300
Fax: (408)731-3301
Business
Services: Internet search engine, audio and video streaming, store hosting and management, and Web site tools and services.
Variant Names
Four11 Corp. – Merger
Viaweb Inc. – Merger 1998/06/01
HYPERparallel Inc. – Merger 1998/12/01
Launch Media Inc. – Acquisition 2001/06/27
Broadcast.com Inc. – Merger 1999/07/31
GeoCities – Merger
DialPad Communications Inc. – Merger
HotJobs Software – Merger 2002/02/01
Musicmatch Inc. – Merger
Network Software Company Ltd. – Merger
SIC Codes
7375 – Information Retrieval Services
NAICS Codes
518111 – Internet Service Providers
Annual Sales
$7,709.00 M Operating revenue, Company Press Release
Employees
14,300, Company Press Release
Sales/Employees
$539,090.00
Year Founded
Fiscal Year
Dec 31, 2008
SMSA Code
4480 – Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
Features
Public Company, Headquarters Location
Ticker (Stock Exch)
YHOO (NASDAQ)
Principal Shareholders
FMR Corp. (12.5)
David Filo (7.9)
Jerry Yang (6.7)
Terry S. Semel (1.2)
History
Yahoo! Inc.
1994 April: David Filo and Jerry Yang, both Ph.D. candidates in electrical engineering at Stanford University, compile a list of their favorite Web sites and place it on a site entitled Jerrys Guide to the World Wide Web.
1994: The list grows, along with the number of site users. Filo and Yang begin spending more time on their list and convert it to a database that users can search through to locate specific Web sites. The pair change the site name to Yahoo!,