What is Yahoo!? (Back to Top)

Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet communications, commerce and media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services to more than 274 million individuals each month worldwide. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, www.yahoo.com is the leading guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household and business user reach. Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and reaches the largest audience worldwide. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Yahoo! has offices in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia, Canada and the United States.

January 1994

March 1995

April 1996

Yahoo! Inc.
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
Phone: 408-349-3300
Fax: 408-349-3301

Yahoo! is an acronym for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.

• Consumer services

  Yahoo! continues to provide essential consumer services to increase the value of the overall online user experience on Yahoo!. These services include:
  

  • Internet content from over 2000 top-of-the-industry providers in areas such as news, travel, sports, games, and weather
  • Commerce services such as shopping, auctions, finance, and classifieds that enable merchants, enterprises and individuals to find their audience and complete transactions efficiently on a worldwide basis
  • Communications services such as Mail, Messenger, Photos, Greetings, Clubs, and Groups which make communicating on the Internet, from a PC or wireless device, easier than ever
  • Yahoo! Everywhere provides consumers with seamless mobile access to essential, personalized, local and timely information across a multitude of devices including wireless phones, two-way pagers and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs).

• Marketing services

  Yahoo! enables agencies and clients to find any audience, connect with anyone, and sell anything through programs such as Fusion Marketing, an integrated set of sales and marketing services uniting media, commerce, communication and Yahoo!'s own think tank, ValueLab.

• Business and Enterprise services

  Yahoo!'s Business and Enterprise Services effectively and easily integrate commerce, communications and media on a secure and scalable platform for businesses with such solutions as Corporate Yahoo!, Yahoo! Broadcast Services, Yahoo! Small Business.

• Premium services

  Yahoo! offers premium services in several areas of the network to provide increased value to our users' overall Internet experience, with such business services as such as Yahoo! Store, Business Express, and Yahoo! Yellow Pages as well as consumer services such as Yahoo! Auctions, Yahoo! Bill Pay, and extra mail storage.

How many languages is Yahoo! in? (Back to Top)

13, including English

Yahoo! has offices in Europe, the Asia Pacific, Latin America, Canada and the United States, and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif.

How much traffic does Yahoo! get each day? (Back to Top)

Traffic on the Yahoo! global network of properties increased to an average of 2.4 billion page views per day as of March 2004. (A page view is defined as one electronic page of information displayed in response to a user request.)

More than 274 million unique users worldwide used the Yahoo! global network of properties (March 2004).

Where is Yahoo! stock traded? (Back to Top)

Yahoo! is traded on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol YHOO.

An entire list of research analysts that follow Yahoo! can be found on the Yahoo! Research Analysts page of Yahoo!'s Investor Relations Web site at http://www.yahoo.com/info/investor/.

Yahoo! Investor Relations can be reached via email at investor_relations@yahoo.com, or by calling (408) 349-3300 and asking for the Investor Relations Department.

$13.00 per share

$33.00 per share

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Four times. Below is a schedule for all prior stock splits:

3 for 2	September 2, 1997
2 for 1	August 3, 1998
2 for 1	February 8, 1999
2 for 1	February 14, 2000
2 for 1	May 11, 2004

December 8, 1999

Yahoo! has acquired a total of twenty-two companies since its inception.

Company	Announcement Date
Net Controls	9/97
Four11	10/97
Classic Games	3/98
ViaWeb	6/98
WebCal	7/98
Yoyodyne	12/98
Sportacy	12/98
Hyperparallel	1/99
Log-Me-On	2/99
GeoCities	5/99
Encompass	5/99
Online Anywhere	6/99
Broadcast.com	7/99
MyQuest	11/99
Arthas.com	3/00
eGroups	8/00
Kimo	11/00
Sold.com	4/01
Launch Media	6/01
HotJobs	1/02
Inktomi	12/02
Overture	10/03
3721	1/04
Kelkoo	4/04

• Terry Semel, chairman and CEO, Yahoo!, Inc.

• Roy Bostock, chairman emeritus, BCom3 Group Inc
• Ron Burkle, founder and managing partner, The Yucaipa Companies
• Eric Hippeau, president and executive managing director, SOFTBANK International Ventures
• Arthur Kern, founder and chairman, American Media
• Robert Kotick, director, chairman of the board and chief executive officer, Activision, Inc
• Edward Kozel, managing partner, Open Range Ventures
• Gary L. Wilson, chairman, NWA Inc., parent of Northwest Airlines
• Jerry Yang, co-founder and Chief Yahoo, Yahoo!, Inc.

Quarterly earnings dates are posted on our Investor Relations site. You can reach the site at http://docs.yahoo.com/info/investor/