Yahoo Logo — Yahoo! Inc. is a global media company based in the United States , whose mission is “to be the service most essential global Internet for consumers and businesses.” It has a portal of Internet , a web directory and a range of services, including the popular Yahoo! email. It was founded in January of 1994 by two graduate students at Stanford University, Jerry Yang and David Filo . Yahoo! was incorporated as a company on 2 Marchof 1995 and began trading on the stock exchange on 12 April of 1996 . The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA. On February 1 of 2008 , Microsoft made an unsolicited bid to buy Yahoo for 44,600 million U.S. $ , offer after the company rejected it, arguing that detracts from the amount the firm.
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On July 29, 2009, it was announced that in 10 years, Microsoft will have full access to the Yahoo search engine for use in future projects Microsoft search engine for Bing . Yahoo! initially was called “Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web” (Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web), but soon changed its name to Yahoo! There are several versions about the origin of the name Yahoo!: version circulating in the real corporate Yahoo! Sunnyvale , California is that it comes from the name of a character from the book Gulliver’s Travels of Jonathan Swift , the Yahoos . The story goes that the house of David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo!, the father of this David and Jerry called “a couple of Yahoos” for his restless nature and they decide to use the name for its portal Yahoo!. In the book of Swift, a Yahoo is a wild creature, dirty and unpleasant habits, resembling human beings too. Other versions say that Yahoo! is just an acronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle” . More