Yahoo!
Yahoo! (/ˈjɑːhuː/, styled yahoo! in its logo)[4][5] is an American Web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon Communications.
This article is about the web portal. For the company, see Yahoo! Inc. (2017–present). For the now-unaffiliated Japanese company, see Yahoo! Japan. For other uses, see Yahoo (disambiguation).Type of business
Web portal and online services
January 1994
Worldwide
- Apollo Global Management (90%)
- Verizon Communications (10%)
$7.4 billion (2020)[1]
8,600 (2017)[2]
- Yahoo! Inc. (1995–2017, 2021–present)
- Verizon Communications (2017–2021)
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It provides a web portal, search engine Yahoo Search, and related services, including My Yahoo!, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports and its advertising platform, Yahoo! Native.
Yahoo was established by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s.[6] However, its use declined in the late 2000s as some of its services were discontinued, and it lost market share to Facebook and Google.[7][8]
Products and services
For a list of all current and defunct services offered by Yahoo, see List of Yahoo!-owned sites and services.
