Yahoo is Associated With and Known as:
Yahoo or Yahoo Inc is one of the biggest names of the internet world. It is known for digital media which provides several internet products such as web portal, search engine Yahoo Search, including Yahoo Directory, Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Groups, Yahoo Answers, advertising, online mapping, video sharing, fantasy sports etc. The website project was started out by Jerry Yang and David Filo as Jerry's guide to the World Wide Web in January 1994, but it was changed to name Yahoo in March 1994. The American based company Yahoo has opened its representative offices which are situated in 25 countries in all across the globe. As of December, 2013 it has a strength of approximately 11,500 people. Every month over 700 million visitors visits the Yahoo's portal, which is showing its strength and services in the globe. Moreover in order to improve its performance in internet world and to tighten its grip on various services its acquired many American based companies which are Oddpost, Net Controls, Kelkoo, Four11, Musicmatch Jukebox, Encompass, TeRespondo, Online Anywhere, Whereonearth, Arthas.com, AdInterax, VivaSmart, Inktomi Corporation, WUF Networks, Upcoming.org, SearchFox, BuzzTracker, Maven Networks, Associated Content, Social recommendation and many more. The company launched its Mobile application which comes pre installed on many of Smart phones. The application operates on various mobile operating systems which are iOS, Android and windows mobile. Apart from this, the company adds new features that customers can be easily operated and take the benefit of its new products Very easily. With its popularity in internet world and Due to this it is considered one of the most advanced and technical sound companies of modern era. Yahoo has changed not only people's thinking towards technology but also develops the way in order to save both time and money. It's innovative ideas about the technology lead people to adapt in its world for better output.
Administration
Yahoo is headquartered in Sunnyvle, California, USA and operates on worldwide level. It acts as the parent company for many establishments such as Flurry, Yahoo Search Marketing, Right Media, BlueLithium, Yahoo Research, and Ludicorp. Yahoo is operated through a Board of Directors composed of the designations like Vice President, CEO, and Adviser.
History
Yahoo was first appeared in 1994 as "Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide Web", a project of Jerry Yang and David Filo. Later on it became Yahoo.com, which is believed to be the short form of "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". At its infancy, Yahoo started to provide a directory of other websites. Over the coming years saw it rising as the top search engine in the world in 1990s. In 1997, Yahoo introduced its e-mail service known as Yahoo Mail, which is one of the largest electronic mail service providers in the world. By 2004, it developed its own search engine. The company expanded to various other Internet services through the acquisition of many websites and first of them was Net Controls in 1997 followed by Four 11, Classic Games, and so on.