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.

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” .

Yahoo! first appeared on the PC Yang, “Akebono,” while the software and database machine Philo, “Konishiki”, names that come from sumo wrestlers, which sport Filo and Yang they are fanatics. Yahoo! made its public appearance in the stock market in New York on the NASDAQ on April 12, 1996, selling 2.6 10 of shares at 13 U.S. dollarseach.

As the popularity of Yahoo! increased, the range of services grew. Yahoo! This made “the only place where someone has to go to find whatever you find, communicate with anyone or buy anything.” Among the services currently offered are Yahoo! Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Games, Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Auctions, etc.. Yahoo! has begun to make strategic contracts with telecommunications companies and local search worldwide, such as British Telecom in the UK, Rogers Communications in Canada, Interactive Ideas (Yahoo! Useful Pages) in Mexico and SBC Communications in Canada. Its aim is to meet its global competitors, Google , AOL , Terra , MSN and others.

In order to increase his lead in the search area of web pages (the main complaint) Yahoo! has made acquisitions such as Inktomi in December 2002 and Overture in July 2003 (together with its subsidiaries AltaVista, AllTheWeb) and carried out in Mexico an alliance with a company called Interactive Ideas to launch a printed telephone directory under the name Yahoo! Pages Useful, breaking molds and complementing its local search strategy in the physical world, enabling you to compete with Google and new search function MSN .

Yahoo! servers currently use the operating system FreeBSD . Yahoo announced that first quarter profit fell 78% over the same period of 2008 to 117.6 in October 6 USD, due to the steep decline in its advertising business. The U.S. Internet company said it intends to lay off more than 5% of its workforce, or 700 employees, to reduce costs.

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