Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc.

Type	Public (NASDAQ: YHOO)
Industry	Internet, Computer software
Founded	Santa Clara, California (March 1, 1995)
Founder(s)	Jerry Yang David Filo
Headquarters	701 First Ave. Sunnyvale, California, United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Carol Bartz (CEO) Roy J. Bostock (Chairman) Jerry Yang (Co-founder) David Filo (Co-founder)
Products	See list of Yahoo products.
Revenue	$6.460 billion (2009)
Operating income	$3.589 billion (2009)
Profit	$597.99 million (2009)
Total assets	$14.936 billion (2009)
Total equity	$12.493 billion (2009)
Employees	13,600 (Q4 2010)
Subsidiaries	List of acquisitions by Yahoo!
Website	Yahoo.com

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American public corporation with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, (in Silicon Valley), that provides services via the Internet worldwide. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine (Yahoo! Search), Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, advertising, online mapping (Yahoo! Maps), video sharing (Yahoo! Video), and social media websites and services.
Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995. On January 13, 2009, Yahoo! appointed Carol Bartz, former executive chairperson of Autodesk, as its new chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors.