Yahoo! is focused on making the world's daily habits inspiring and entertaining. By creating highly personalized experiences for our users, we keep people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the world. In turn, we create value for advertisers by connecting them with the audiences that build their businesses.
Founded in 1994 by Stanford PhD candidates David Filo and Jerry Yang as a way for them to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet, Yahoo! has grown into a company that helps consumers find what they are looking for and discover wonders they didn’t expect. We keep consumers plugged into the topics and people they care about, helping them get more out of the digital world so that they can get more out of life.
Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., and has 11,500 employees in 25 countries, provinces, and territories.
User offerings
Yahoo! is positioning its products and services to be at the center of the world’s digital daily habits—everyday activities our users perform for all kinds of reasons: information, education, entertainment, amusement, discovery or even an improved quality of life. We are focused on building excellent products that not only enable these daily activities, but also make them more inspiring and entertaining. Our user offerings include:
Yahoo.com
Yahoo! is a starting point that brings together the most relevant content and functionality from across the Web, including original Yahoo! content. We offer a majority of these services free of charge to our users around the world. On our content properties, we generate revenue from display and search advertising, as well as fee-based services. Many of our properties are also available in mobile-optimized versions for display on mobile phones and tablet devices, or available as native applications for iOS, Android and Windows phones.
Communications
In addition to bringing together personalized content and information consumed by hundreds of millions of users, we also provide communications tools to connect the world. These include:
User-Generated Content
Our User-Generated Content products allow our users to create, share, and discover ideas, interests, and photography with the world.
Mobile and Emerging Products
With the rapid platform shift to mobile devices including phones and tablets, Yahoo! is focused on product excellence on both PCs and mobile devices. Many of our products are available across the mobile Web and as native mobile applications for iPhone, Android, and Windows 8. These offerings enable users to engage in their daily habits across devices, wherever they are and whenever they want. The monetization of these mobile 6offerings is driven primarily by display and search advertisements that users engage with during their mobile activities, an area where we are committed to innovation. In addition, we have invested in other early-stage emerging products, including:
