Yahoo! Inc. is an Western computer services company with the mission to "be the most essential global Internet service for consumers and businesses". It operates an Internet portal, a web directory and a persons of more services including a popular Yahoo! Mail. It was founded by Stanford graduate students David Filo and Jerry Yang in January 1994 and incorporated on March 2, 1995. A company is headquartered inside Sunnyvale, California.

Based on data from Alexa Internet and Netcraft, both of which are then Web trends corporations, Yahoo! is the virtually all visited site using your internet browser now. A spherical network of Yahoo websites received Three billion web page views by the day as of October 2004.

History

Yahoo! began retired when "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" however yet standard the recently moniker with the serve of the lexicon. A title Yahoo is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo & Yang insist it selected the title because it liked a general definition of a yahoo, as within ''Gulliver's Travels'' by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." Yahoo itself first resided on Yang's student workstation, "Akebono," while the software was lodged on Filo's computer, "Konishiki"—both named after legendary sumo wrestlers. A "yet another" phrasing goes back at least to the Unix utility yacc, whose name is an acronym for "yet another compiler compiler".

Yahoo experienced its initial public offering on April 12, 1996, selling 2.6 million shares at $13 both.

When Yahoo's popularity has increased, then has the range of features it offers, making it a sort of of these-prevent shop for all the popular activities of the Internet. These okay, include: Yahoo! Mail, a Web-based e-mail service, an instant messaging client, a very popular mailing list service (Yahoo! Groups), online gaming and chat, various news and information portals, online shopping and auction facilities. Several one come depending at least within a portiin on antecedently independent services, which Yahoo has acquired - like a popular GeoCities free Web-hosting service, Rocketmail, and various competing mailing list providers such as eGroups. Several one require-overs were controversial & unpopular by owning users of a existent services, when Yahoo typically changed the relevant terms of service. An case of this would exist as their claiming intellectual property rights for a content on their servers, which the original corporations got non done.

At a pinnacle of the Internet boom in the year 2000, the cable news station CNBC reported that Yahoo! Inc. & eBay were in discussions to initiate the 50/50 merger [http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,34967,00.html].

Yahoo has partnerships using telecommunications and Internet providers - such as BT in the UK, Rogers in Canada and SBC ,Verizon [http://www22.verizon.com/forhomedsl/channels/dsl/services/default.asp?view=yahoo]and BellSouth in the US - to create content-rich broadband services to rival those offered by AOL. the company offers a branded credit card, Yahoo! Visa, across the partnership by having First USA.

Beginning around late 2002, Yahoo quietly began to bolster its look for services by getting competing technologies. Inside December 2002, it acquired Inktomi, and within July 2003, it acquired Overture Services, Inc., and through it, search sites AltaVista and AlltheWeb. In February 18, 2004, Yahoo dropped Google-powered resolutions & returned to utilizing its have technology to provide research results.

When of 2005 Yahoo!'s news message boards have gained something of the cult ensuing. Tied to each story occurs as discussion board, eventually seldom come a posts pertinent to the story. Typically, a posts come deliberately outrageous, attempting to provoke angry reactions which, successively, lead to extra offensive posts then in. There are no news article, yet inviolable, is spared.

Controversy

Inside April 2005, Shi Tao, the journalist working for the Chinese newspaper, was sentenced to Decade years within prison per Changsa Intermediate People's Court of Hunan Province, China (First test out break there are no Xxix), for "providing state secrets to foreign entities". He experienced passed details of the censorship the correct sequence to the Asia Democracy Forum and a web site [http://www.wmd.org/democracynews/may1102sup.html Democracy News]. A pressure class action [http://www.rsf.org/ Reporters Without Borders] (RSF) investigated a example, specifically a ease by using which Mr Tao got been caught. He got sent a message across an anon. Yahoo! account. However law experienced never again straight to his agents & picked him higher. RSF in the future found the translation of the [http://www.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/Verdict_Shi_Tao.pdf verdict] which stated that Mr Tao's account data, phone number & location were "furnished by Yahoo! Holdings".

Important events

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1995: Ziff Davis Inc. launches a magazine Yahoo! Internet Life, initially as ZD Internet Life. A magazine was intended to accompany & complement a website. January 19 2000: At the height of the Dot-com tech bubble, shares within Yahoo Japan became the number one equities in Japanese history to trade at across ¥100,000,000, reaching a price of 101.Four million yen ($962,140 at that instance). [http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/print.php/289851] February 7 2000: Yahoo.com wwhen brought to the prevent for two or three hours as it was the victim of a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/635444.stm] [http://news.com.com/2100-1023-236621.html?legacy=cnet]. On the next day, its shares rose all about $16, or even Tetrad.Five percent when a failure was blamed in hackers rather than on an internal bug, unlike what happened to eBay earlier. June 3, 2002: SBC and Yahoo! Launch National Co-Branded Dial Service -- [http://www.sbc.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=20046 Press Release] December 2002: Yahoo! Inc. starts acquisition of Inktomi Web search engine July, 2003: BT Openworld announces an alliance with Yahoo! -- [http://www.groupbt.com/News/Articles/ShowArticle.cfm?ArticleID=fa2aec1b-0336-4b33-8d7e-85900c10ea33 Press Release] July 2003, Acquires Overture Services, Inc. January 19 2004: Yahoo! Inc. announces a formation of [http://research.yahoo.com Yahoo! Research laboratory], the locate organization focusing on the invention of fresh technologies & solutions for Yahoo. Yahoo's Head & Principal Man of science, Dr. Gary William Flake, leads the freshly organization. Dr. Flake has since left a company & nowadays works at Micrsoft. February 19 2004: Yahoo dropped Google-powered outcomes, giving to its have results when an extended instance. March 2004: Yahoo launches its own search engine technology. March 1 2004: Yahoo announces (as cited in the Future York Days article enrolled in the "References" part) that it might practice paid inclusion for its search service. All the same, it besides announced it would prove my point to trust primarily in the loose web crawl for most of its research engine content. March 25 2004: Yahoo acquires the European shopping search engine Kelkoo. December 15 2004: Yahoo launches beta version of its video seek engine. February 9 2005 Yahoo!Launch is changed to Yahoo!Music, which still will bring free streaming music. February 15 2005 Yahoo establishes its European Headquarters in Dublin, Ireland with the creation of 400 fresh jobs. [http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Yahoo_chooses_Dublin_as_location_of_new_European_Headquarters] February 28 2005 Yahoo! launches the [http://developer.yahoo.net/ developer network] returning an API to virtually all of its research verticals. March 2 2005 Yahoo! completes X years of corporate being. Gives out loose ice cream coupons at Baskin Robbins to its users to celebrate its "birthday." March 20, 2005 Yahoo! acquires exposure sharing service Flickr [http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2005/03/yahoo_actually_.html] April 7, 2005 Wikimedia Foundation announces Yahoo! support [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_announces_Yahoo_support] May 26, 2005 Yahoo! announces its newly PhotoMail service June 14, 2005 Yahoo! acquires VoIP provider DialPad Communications. July 15, 2005 Yahoo! announces Yahoo! The food and drug administration Lab - Berkeley (YRLB) July 25, 2005 Yahoo! acquires widget engine Konfabulator August 11, 2005 Yahoo! acquires 40% of Alibaba.com for $1 billion US, and Alibaba will take over operation of Yahoo! China. [http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,68497,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_5] August 23, 2005: Verizon and Yahoo! Launch Integrated DSL Service -- [http://newscenter.verizon.com/proactive/newsroom/release.vtml?id=92803 Press Release] September 7, 2005. Yahoo the diapers tools to People's Republic of China which then jails reporter Shi Tao, age 37, for 10 years. Yahoo! states that it were as a result Chinese law. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4221538.stm] October 4, 2005 Yahoo purchases online social event calender Upcoming.org. [http://www.waxy.org/archive/2005/10/04/yahoo_an.shtml]

Yahoo! Research Labs

Yahoo! has Ternion laboratory: Berkeley, CA in association with a School of Info Management & Systems at a University of California, Berkeley. Pasadena, CA. Sunnyvale, CA.