Yahoo! Inc.
Type	Public (NASDAQ: YHOO)
Founded	Santa Clara, California (March 1, 1995)
Headquarters	701 First Avenue Sunnyvale, California, USA
Key people	Jerry Yang, Chairman, CEO, Chief Yahoo and Co-founder David Filo, Chief Yahoo and Co-founder Susan Decker, President
Industry	Internet, computer software
Products	(See list of Yahoo! products)
Revenue	▲$7.0 billion USD (2007)[1]
Operating income	▲ $730 million USD (2007)[2]
Employees	13,800 (April 22, 2008)
Website	www.yahoo.com

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American public corporation incorporated in Sunnyvale, California and a global Internet services company. It provides a range of products and services including a Web portal, a search engine, the Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, news, and posting. It was founded by Stanford University graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo in January of 1994 and incorporated on March 1, 1995. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California in Silicon Valley. Look up yahoo, Yahoo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Image File history File links Yahoo_Logo. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ... Location of Santa Clara within Santa Clara County, California. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... is the 60th day of the year (61st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Location in Santa Clara County and the state of California Coordinates: , Country State County Santa Clara Government  - Mayor Otto Lee Area  - Total 22. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Jerry Yang Chih-Yuan (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: ; born November 6, 1968) is a Taiwanese American entreprenuer, [2] co-founder with David Filo and CEO of Yahoo! Inc. ... A Chairman is the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body. ... Chief Executive redirects here. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... has been a director of Costco Corporation, and has served as Chief Financial Officer of Yahoo! Incorporated. ... For other uses, see President (disambiguation). ... Software redirects here. ... For the tax agency in Ireland of the same name, see Revenue Commissioners. ... USD redirects here. ... Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT), also known as operating income and operating profit, is a term used to describe a companys earnings. ... USD redirects here. ... This article is about work. ... A website (alternatively, web site or Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or more web servers, usually accessible via the Internet. ... NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Corporation (disambiguation). ... Location in Santa Clara County and the state of California Coordinates: , Country State County Santa Clara Government  - Mayor Otto Lee Area  - Total 22. ... For information regarding portals on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Portal. ... A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. ... The Yahoo! Directory is a web directory which rivals the Open Directory Project in size. ... Yahoo! Mail is a Web-based email (webmail) service from Yahoo!. It is the most used e-mail provider on the Internet, serving over 260 million users. ... Stanford redirects here. ... Jerry Yang Chih-Yuan (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: ; born November 6, 1968) is a Taiwanese American entreprenuer, [2] co-founder with David Filo and CEO of Yahoo! Inc. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... is the 60th day of the year (61st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Location in Santa Clara County and the state of California Coordinates: , Country State County Santa Clara Government  - Mayor Otto Lee Area  - Total 22. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... For the Nintendo 64 game, see Space Station Silicon Valley. ...

According to Web traffic analysis companies (including Compete.com, comScore,^[3] Alexa Internet,^[4] and Nielsen Ratings),^[5] Yahoo has been one of the most visited websites on the Internet, with more than 130 million unique users per month in the US alone. The global network of Yahoo! websites receives 3.4 billion page views per day on average as of October 2007, making it one of the most visited U.S. websites.^[4] comScore is an internet marketing research company that provides marketing data and services to many of the internets largest businesses [1]. comScore tracks all internet data on its surveyed computers, giving it a great deal of insight into online behavior. ... Alexa Internet, Inc. ... When TV viewers or entertainment professionals in the United States mention ratings they are often referring to Nielsen Ratings, a system developed by Nielsen Media Research to determine the audience size and composition of television programming. ... According to IFABC Global Web Standards, a unique user is An IP address plus a further identifier. ... 2007 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

On February 1, 2008, Microsoft made an unsolicited bid to purchase Yahoo shares at the price of $31 per share, a bid valuing $44.6 billion for all the shares.^[6] The offer was turned down by Yahoo's board of directors on February 11 because they thought Microsoft's offer was too low.^[7] is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... Chairman of the Board redirects here. ... is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ...

On April 9th, The Wall Street Journal reported that a strong possible merger could happen, but not with Microsoft, instead with Time Warner's AOL. Time Warner would hold 20% of the new company, whenwhile there is talk of a Microsoft-News Corp deal the would jointly acquire Yahoo.^[8] It would merge MSN, Yahoo and MySpace into a new corporation.^[9] April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years). ... The Wall Street Journal is an influential international daily newspaper published in New York City, New York with an average daily circulation of 1,800,607 (2002). ... Time Warner Inc. ... For other uses, see AOL (disambiguation). ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... News Corporation (NYSE: NWS) is a media conglomerate that operates world-wide. ... For other uses, see MSN (disambiguation). ... Yahoo! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... MySpace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. ...

History and growth

Early history (1994-1996)

Yahoo co-founders Jerry Yang (left) and David Filo (right)

In January 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo were Electrical Engineering graduate students at Stanford University. They started a list of web pages in a campus trailer in February 1994, as a way to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet. The lists were published as a web site named "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web", and grew large enough to require categories and subcategories organized in a hierarchy. Before long they were spending more time on their home-brewed lists of favorite links than on their doctoral dissertations. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 534 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 683 pixel, file size: 253 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Yahoo! ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 534 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 683 pixel, file size: 253 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Yahoo! ... Jerry Yang Chih-Yuan (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: ; born November 6, 1968) is a Taiwanese American entreprenuer, [2] co-founder with David Filo and CEO of Yahoo! Inc. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Jerry Yang Chih-Yuan (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: ; born November 6, 1968) is a Taiwanese American entreprenuer, [2] co-founder with David Filo and CEO of Yahoo! Inc. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Stanford redirects here. ...

In April 1994, "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!". Filo and Yang said they selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, which comes from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." Its URL was akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo.^[10] For other uses, see Gullivers Travels (disambiguation). ... Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745) was an Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for Tories), and poet, famous for works like Gullivers Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, The Drapiers Letters, The Battle of the Books, and... // Uniform Resource Locator (URL) formerly known as Universal Resource Locator, is a technical, Web-related term used in two distinct meanings: In popular usage and many technical documents, it is a synonym for Uniform Resource Identifier (URI); Strictly, the idea of a uniform syntax for global identifiers of network-retrievable...

By the end of 1994, Yahoo had already received one million hits. Yang and Filo realized their website had massive business potential, and on 1 March 1995, Yahoo was incorporated.^[11] On April 5, 1995, Sequoia Capital provided Yahoo with two rounds of venture capital.^[12] On 12 April 1996, Yahoo had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 million dollars, by selling 2.6 million shares at $13 each. is the 60th day of the year (61st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Incorporation (abbreviated Inc. ... Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Don Valentine in 1972. ... is the 102nd day of the year (103rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... IPO redirects here. ...

"Yahoo" had already been trademarked for barbecue sauce (and knives (by EBSCO Industries)). Therefore, in order to get the trademark, Yang and Filo added the exclamation mark to the name.^[13] EBSCO Industries is a privately-held, widely diversified corporation with headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama. ...

Growth (1997-1999)

Like many search engines and web directories, Yahoo diversified into a Web portal. In the late 1990s, Yahoo, MSN, Lycos, Excite and other Web portals were growing rapidly. Web portal providers rushed to acquire companies to expand their range of services, in the hope of increasing the time a user stays at the portal. A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. ... A web directory or link directory is a directory on the World Wide Web. ... For information regarding portals on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Portal. ... For other uses, see MSN (disambiguation). ... Lycos is an Internet search engine and web portal. ... Excite Excite is an Internet portal with an included search engine. ...

On 8 March 1997, Yahoo acquired online communications company Four11. Four11's webmail service, Rocketmail, became Yahoo Mail. Yahoo also acquired ClassicGames.com and turned it into Yahoo Games. Yahoo then acquired direct marketing company Yoyodyne Entertainment, Inc. on 12 October. On 8 March 1998, Yahoo launched Yahoo Pager,^[14] an instant messaging service that was renamed Yahoo Messenger a year later. On 28 January 1999, Yahoo acquired web hosting provider GeoCities. Another company Yahoo acquired was eGroups, which became Yahoo Groups after the acquisition on 28 June 2000. is the 67th day of the year (68th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... Rocketmail was one of the first major free webmail services and was a product of Four11. ... See also Hotmail Gmail External links Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Mail FAQ YPOPs: An application that provides POP3 access to Yahoo! Mail Categories: Domain name stubs | Email | Yahoo! | Websites ... Yahoo! Games is the games section of the Yahoo! website. ... is the 285th day of the year (286th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 67th day of the year (68th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... Categories: Computer stubs | Mac OS instant messengers | Windows instant messengers | Yahoo! ... is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events of 2008: (EMILY) Me Lesley and MIley are going to China! This article is about the year. ... Yahoo! GeoCities is a free webhosting service founded by David Bohnett and John Rezner in late 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet. ... eGroups. ... Yahoo! Groups Yahoo! Groups is an electronic mailing list service provided by Yahoo!. Over the years, Yahoo! bought several other mailing list providers, including the popular eGroups, and combined them with Yahoo! Clubs into one system. ... is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...

When acquiring companies, Yahoo often changed the relevant terms of service. For example, they claimed intellectual property rights for content on their servers, unlike the companies they acquired. As a result, many of the acquisitions were controversial and unpopular with users of the existing services.^[clarify] Terms of Service (often abbreviated as ToS) are rules by which one must agree to abide by in order to use a service. ... For the 2006 film, see Intellectual Property (film). ... In information technology, a server is an application or device that performs services for connected clients as part of a client-server architecture. ... Look up acquisition in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale

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Dot-com bubble (2000-2001)

On January 3, 2000, at the height of the Dot-com boom, Yahoo stocks closed at an all-time high of $475.00 a share. 16 days later, shares in Yahoo Japan became the first stocks in Japanese history to trade at over ¥100,000,000, reaching a price of ¥101.4 million ($962,140 at that time).^[15] is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Dot-com (also dotcom or redundantly dot. ... Yahoo! Japan Corporation ) (TYO: 4689) is the Japan affiliate of American internet company Yahoo!. The head office is in the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower in Minato, Tokyo. ...

On February 7, 2000, yahoo.com was brought to a halt for a few hours as it was the victim of a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS).^[16][17] On the next day, its shares rose about $16, or 4.5 percent as the failure was blamed on hackers rather than on an internal glitch, unlike a fault with eBay earlier that year. is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... A denial-of-service attack (also, DoS attack) is an attack on a computer system or network that causes a loss of service to users, typically the loss of network connectivity and services by consuming the bandwidth of the victim network or overloading the computational resources of the victim system. ... This article is about computer hacking. ... For other uses, see Glitch (disambiguation). ... This article is about the online auction center. ...

During the dot-com boom, the cable news station CNBC also reported that Yahoo and eBay were discussing a 50/50 merger.^[18] Although the merger never materialized the two companies decided to form a marketing/advertising alliance six years later in 2006.^[19] This article is about CNBC U.S., the business news channel in the U.S.. For other uses, see CNBC (disambiguation). ... This article is about the online auction center. ... The phrase mergers and acquisitions or M&A refers to the aspect of corporate finance strategy and management dealing with the merging and acquiring of different companies as well as assets. ...

On June 26, 2000, Yahoo and Google signed an agreement which retained Google as the default world-wide-web search engine for yahoo.com following a beta trial in 1999.^[20] is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... This article is about the corporation. ...

Post dot-com bubble (2002-2008)

Yahoo was one of the few surviving large Internet companies after the dot-com bubble burst. Nevertheless, on September 26, 2001, Yahoo stocks closed at a five-year low of $4.06 (split-adjusted). The dot-com bubble was a speculative bubble covering roughly 1995–2001 during which stock markets in Western nations saw their value increase rapidly from growth in the new Internet sector and related fields. ... is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ...

Yahoo formed partnerships with telecommunications and Internet providers to create content-rich broadband services to compete with AOL. On June 3, 2002, SBC and Yahoo launched a national co-branded dial service.^[21] In July 2003, BT Openworld announced an alliance with Yahoo.^[22] On August 23, 2005, Yahoo and Verizon launched an integrated DSL service.^[23] Telecommunication involves the transmission of signals over a distance for the purpose of communication. ... Broadband in telecommunications is a term that refers to a signaling method that includes or handles a relatively wide range of frequencies, which may be divided into channels or frequency bins. ... For other uses, see AOL (disambiguation). ... is the 154th day of the year (155th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... SBC Communications NYSE: SBC is an American telecommunications company based in San Antonio, Texas. ... Dial-up access is a form of Internet access via telephone line. ... 2003 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for July, 2003. ... BT Group plc (formerly British Telecommunications plc) which trades as BT (pronounced Bee tee) (also previously as British Telecom and is still commonly known as such amongst the general public) is the privatised UK state telecommunications operator. ... {| style=float:right; |- | |- | |} is the 235th day of the year (236th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section should include material from Bell Atlantic This article or section should include material from GTE Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) is a local exchange telephone company formed by the merger of Bell Atlantic, a former Bell Operating Company, and GTE, which was the largest independant local exchange... DSL may refer to: Damn Small Linux Dark and Shattered Lands, a MUD based loosely on Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance books. ...

In late 2002, Yahoo began to bolster its search services by acquiring other search engines. In December 2002, Yahoo acquired Inktomi. In February 2005, Yahoo acquired Konfabulator and rebranded it Yahoo Widgets,^[24] a desktop application and in July 2003, it acquired Overture Services, Inc. and its subsidiaries AltaVista and AlltheWeb. On February 18, 2004, Yahoo dropped Google-powered results and returned to using its own technology to provide search results. Inktomi was a Californian company that provided software for Internet Service Providers, which was founded in 1996 by UC Berkeley professor Eric Brewer and graduate student Paul Gauthier. ... Yahoo! Widgets is a free JavaScript runtime engine for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, previously called Konfabulator, but subsequently bought by computer services company Yahoo!. The runtime engine runs small applications referred to as Widgets, and hence is part of a class of software applications called widget engines. ... The name AltaVista refers both to an Internet search engine company and to that company’s search engine product. ... Screenshot of AlltheWeb AlltheWeb is a major search engine which debuted in mid-1999. ... is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the corporation. ...

In 2004, in response to Google's release of Gmail, Yahoo upgraded the storage of all free Yahoo Mail accounts from 4 MB to 1 GB, and all Yahoo Mail Plus accounts to 2 GB. On 9 July 2004, Yahoo acquired e-mail provider Oddpost to add an Ajax interface to Yahoo Mail.^[25] On 13 October 2005, Yahoo and Microsoft announced that Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger would become interoperable. In 2007, Yahoo took out the storage meters and made the storage limit unlimited. Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the corporation. ... For other uses, see Gmail (disambiguation). ... This article is about a unit of data. ... is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Oddpost is a pay-for webmail service that pioneered the use of JavaScript to mimic a desktop mail application, the first notable foray into using AJAX methodologies. ... AJAX redirects here. ... See also Hotmail Gmail External links Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Mail FAQ YPOPs: An application that provides POP3 access to Yahoo! Mail Categories: Domain name stubs | Email | Yahoo! | Websites ... is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Categories: Computer stubs | Mac OS instant messengers | Windows instant messengers | Yahoo! ... MSN Messenger is a freeware instant messaging client that was developed and distributed by Microsoft in 1999 to 2005 and in 2007 for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system (except Windows Vista), and aimed towards home users. ...

Yahoo continued acquiring companies to expand its range of services, particularly Web 2.0 services. Yahoo Launchcast became Yahoo Music on February 9, 2005. On March 20, 2005, Yahoo purchased photo sharing service Flickr.^[26] On March 29, 2005, the company launched its blogging and social networking service Yahoo 360°. In June 2005, Yahoo acquired blo.gs, a service based on RSS feed aggregation. Yahoo then bought online social event calendar Upcoming.org on October 4, 2005. Yahoo acquired social bookmark site del.icio.us on December 9, 2005 and then playlist sharing community webjay on January 9, 2006. On September 30, 2005, Tim OReilly wrote a piece summarizing his view of Web 2. ... A 1999 issue (#35) of the LAUNCH disk magazine, a precursor of LAUNCHcast. ... is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 79th day of the year (80th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Flickr is a photo sharing website and web services suite, and an online community platform, which is generally considered an early example of a Web 2. ... is the 88th day of the year (89th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... blo. ... On the Internet, Upcoming. ... is the 277th day of the year (278th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The website del. ... is the 343rd day of the year (344th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

On August 27, 2007, Yahoo released a new version of Yahoo Mail that makes it possible for users to send instant messages to the largest combined instant messaging (IM) community including users of Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live Messenger, to send free text messages to mobile phones in the U.S., Canada, India and the Philippines.^[27] is the 239th day of the year (240th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... For other uses of terms redirecting here, see US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation), and United States (disambiguation) Motto In God We Trust(since 1956) (From Many, One; Latin, traditional) Anthem The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City National language English (de facto)1 Demonym American...

On January 22, 2008, it was reported that Yahoo was planning to lay off hundreds of employees out of its work force of about 14,000. The company has suffered severely in its inability to effectively compete with industry search leader Google.^[28] is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the corporation. ...

On January 29, 2008, Yahoo announced that the company was laying off 1,000 employees. The cuts represent 7 percent of the company's workforce of 14,300. Employees are being invited to apply for an unknown number of new positions that are expected to open as the company expands areas that promise faster growth.^[29] is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ...

Possible acquisition by Microsoft

Microsoft and Yahoo pursued merger discussions in 2005, 2006, and 2007, that were all ultimately unsuccessful. At the time, analysts were skeptical about the wisdom of a business combination.^[30][31] On February 1, 2008, after its friendly takeover offer was rebuffed by Yahoo, Microsoft made an unsolicited takeover bid to buy Yahoo for US$44.6 billion dollars in cash and stock.^[32][6] Days later, Yahoo considered alternatives to the merger with Microsoft, including a merger with internet giant Google^[33] or a potential transaction with News Corp.^[34] However, on February 11, 2008, Yahoo decided to reject Microsoft's offer as "substantially undervaluing" Yahoo's brand, audience, investments, and growth prospects.^[7] As of February 22, two Detroit based pension companies have sued Yahoo! and their board of directors for breaching their duty to shareholders by opposing Microsoft's takeover bid and pursuing "value destructive" third-party deals.^[35] In early March, Google CEO Eric Schmidt went on record saying that he was concerned that a potential Microsoft-Yahoo merger might hurt the Internet by compromising its openness.^[36] The value of Microsoft's cash and stock offer declined with Microsoft's stock price, falling to $42.2 billion by April 4.^[37] On April 5, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent a letter to Yahoo's board of directors stating that if within three weeks they had not accepted the deal, Microsoft would approach shareholders directly in hopes of a electing a new board and moving forward with merger talks.^[38] In response, Yahoo! stated on April 7 that they were not against a merger, but that they wanted a better offer. In addition, they stated that Microsoft's "aggressive" approach was worsening their relationship and the chances of a "friendly" merger.^[39] Later the same day, Yahoo stated that the original $45 billion offer was not acceptable.^[39] Following this, there has been considerable discussion of having Time Warner's AOL and Yahoo merge, instead of the originally proposed Microsoft deal.^[40] Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... The phrase mergers and acquisitions or M&A refers to the aspect of corporate finance strategy and management dealing with the merging and acquiring of different companies as well as assets. ... is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ... A takeover in business refers to one company (the acquirer, or bidder) purchasing another (the target). ... This article is about the corporation. ... News Corporation (NYSE: NWS) is a media conglomerate that operates world-wide. ... Dr. Eric E. Schmidt is Chairman and CEO of Google Inc. ... is the 94th day of the year (95th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 95th day of the year (96th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Steven Anthony Ballmer (born March 24, 1956 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American businessman and has been the chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation since January 2000. ... April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ... Time Warner Inc. ... For other uses, see AOL (disambiguation). ...

Products and services

Main article: List of Yahoo-owned sites and services

Yahoo provides a wide array of internet services that cater to most online activities. It operates the web portal http://www.yahoo.com which provides contents including the latest news, Yahoo Finance gives users quick access to other Yahoo services like Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Maps, Yahoo! Groups and Yahoo! Messenger. The majority of the product offerings are available globally in more than 20 languages. Yahoo! Mail is a Web-based email (webmail) service from Yahoo!. It is the most used e-mail provider on the Internet, serving over 260 million users. ... Yahoo! Groups Yahoo! Groups is a service from Yahoo! that provides electronic mailing lists. ... “Y!M” redirects here. ...

Diversified services

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Yahoo offers diversified services; it provides vertical search services such as Yahoo! Image, Yahoo! Video, Yahoo! Local, Yahoo! News, and Yahoo! Shopping Search. As of August 2007, Yahoo is the second-most used search engine, after Google. As of December 11, 2007, Google and the Microsoft search engine "store personal information for 18 months" and Yahoo and AOL (Time Warner) "retain search requests for 13 months".^[41] August 2007 is the eighth month of that year. ... This article is about the corporation. ... is the 345th day of the year (346th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... This article is about the corporation. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... For other uses, see AOL (disambiguation). ... Time Warner Inc. ...

Communication

Yahoo provides internet communication services such as Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Mail is the largest e-mail service in the world with almost half the market share.^[42] In March, 2007, Yahoo announced that their email service will offer unlimited storage beginning May 2007.^[43] Yahoo! Mail is a Web-based email (webmail) service from Yahoo!. It is the most used e-mail provider on the Internet, serving over 260 million users. ... “Y!M” redirects here. ...

Yahoo! Mail premium service MailPlus provides additional functionality including POP/SMTP access to Yahoo! mail accounts, although such functionality is already provided for free by Yahoo! competitor Gmail. Some MailPlus subscribers have reported difficulties in successfully cancelling their Mailplus (automatically renewed and paid by credit card) subscriptions. Although other areas of the Mailplus web interface appear to function correctly, a blank page appears when users select "cancel service" from the list of options to manage the service. It is unknown whether this error has been an accidental oversight by Yahoo! programmers, or a deliberate attempt to retain Mailplus subscription cash flows as long as possible.

Yahoo also offers social networking services and user-generated content in products such as My Web, Yahoo! Personals, Yahoo! 360°, Flickr and Yahoo! Buzz. A Screenshot of Yahoo! Personals shows ads Yahoo! Personals is a dating service provided by Yahoo!. The site lets people post ads for free, and offers a premier service. ... Yahoo! 360° (a. ... Flickr is a photo sharing website and web services suite, and an online community platform, which is generally considered an early example of a Web 2. ...

Yahoo! Photos was shut down on 20 September 2007 in favor of Flickr. On 16 October 2007, Yahoo announced that they will no longer provide support or perform bug fixes on Yahoo 360° as they intend to abandon it in early 2008 in favor of a "universal profile" that will be similar to their Mash experimental system.^[44] is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...

Content

Yahoo partners with hundreds of premier content providers in products such as Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Music, Yahoo! Movies, Yahoo! News, and Yahoo! Games to provide media contents and news. Yahoo also provides a personalization service, My Yahoo, which enables users to collect their favorite Yahoo features, content feeds, and information into a single page. Yahoo! Sports was launched on December 8, 1997. ... This article or section should be merged with Yahoo! Yahoo! Finance provides stock exchange and other financial information. ... Yahoo! Music, provided by the Yahoo! network, is a provider of a variety of music services, including Internet radio, music videos, news, artist information, and original programming. ... This article or section should be merged with Yahoo! Yahoo! Movies provides information on current movie theater releases, including showtimes, critical reviews and general popular opinion. ... Yahoo! News is an Internet-based news aggregator provided by Yahoo!. It features Top Stories, U.S. National, World, Business, Entertainment, Science, Health, Weather, Most Popular, News Photos, Op/Ed, and Local news. ... Yahoo! Games is the games section of the Yahoo! website. ...

Yahoo has developed partnerships with different broadband providers such as AT&T (via BellSouth & SBC), Verizon Communications, Rogers Communications and British Telecom, offering a range of free and premium Yahoo content and services to subscribers. This article is about the current AT&T. For the 1885-2005 company, see American Telephone & Telegraph. ... BellSouth Corporation was an American telecommunications holding company based in Atlanta, Georgia. ... SBC Communications NYSE: SBC is an American telecommunications company based in San Antonio, Texas. ... Verizon Communications, Inc. ... Rogers Communications Inc. ... BT Group plc (which trades as just BT, and is commonly known by its former name, British Telecom) is the privatised former British state telecommunications operator. ...

On March 31, 2008 Yahoo launched web portal http://shine.yahoo.com/ another Yahoo! property dedicated to women between the ages of 25 and 54. Yahoo! called this demographic underserved by current Yahoo! properties. With Shine Yahoo! will expand its offerings in parenting, sex and love, healthy living, food, career, money, entertainment, fashion, beauty home life and astrology.

Mobile

Yahoo Mobile includes services for on-the-go messaging, such as email, instant messaging, and moblogging; information, such as search and alerts; and fun and games, including ringtones, mobile games, and Yahoo Photos for camera phones. Yahoo! Mobile is a mobile website operated by Yahoo! worldwide to promote its Yahoo! Go and mobile web products. ...

oneSearch

Yahoo introduced its Internet search system, called oneSearch, developed for mobile phones on March 20, 2007. The company's officials stated that in distinction from ordinary Web searches, Yahoo's new service presents a list of actual information, which may include: news headlines, images from Yahoo's Flickr photos site, business listings, local weather and links to other sites. Instead of showing only, for example, popular movies or some critical reviews, oneSearch lists local theaters that at the moment are playing a certain movie, user ratings and news headlines regarding the movie. A zip code or city name is required for Yahoo oneSearch to start delivering local search results. is the 79th day of the year (80th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...

The results of a Web search are listed on a single page and are prioritized into categories. The list of results is based on calculations that Yahoo computers make on certain information the user is seeking.^[45]

Yahoo has announced they also plan to adopt Novarra's mobile content transcoding service for the oneSearch platform.^[46]

Commerce

Yahoo offers commerce services such as Yahoo Shopping, Yahoo! Autos, Yahoo! Real Estate and Yahoo Travel, which enables users to gather relevant information and make commercial transactions and purchases online.

Small business

Yahoo provides services such as Yahoo! Domains, Yahoo! Web Hosting, Yahoo! Merchant Solutions, Yahoo! Business Email, and Yahoo! Store to small business owners and professionals allowing them to build their own online stores using Yahoo's tools.

Yahoo also offers HotJobs to help recruiters find the talent they seek.

Advertising

Yahoo! Search Marketing provides services such as Sponsored Search, Local Advertising, and Product/Travel/Directory Submit that let different businesses advertise their products and services on the Yahoo network. Yahoo! Publisher Network is an advertising tool for online publishers to place advertisements relevant to their content to monetize their websites.^[47] Yahoo! Search Marketing (formerly Overture Services, Inc. ... The Yahoo! Publisher Network is an advertising program by Yahoo! introduced in 2005 to compete with Google Incs AdSense service. ...

Yahoo launched its new Internet advertisement sales system on February 5, 2007 called Panama. It allows advertisers to bid for search terms based on their popularity to display their ads on search results pages. The system takes bids, ad quality, click-through rates and other factors into consideration in determining how ads are ranked on search results pages. Through Panama, Yahoo aims to provide more relevant search results to users, a better overall experience, as well as increase monetization -- to earn more from the ads it shows.^[48] // Advert redirects here. ... Click-through rate or CTR is a way of measuring the success of an online advertising campaign. ...

On 7 April 2008, Yahoo! announced Yahoo! AMP!, an online advertising management platform.^[49] The platform seeks to simplify advertising sales by unifying buyer and seller markets. The service is scheduled for release in quarter 3 of 2008. April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ...

Yahoo Next

Yahoo Next is an incubation ground for future Yahoo technologies currently in their beta testing phase. It contains forums for Yahoo users to give feedback to assist in the development of these future Yahoo technologies. A typical Internet forum discussion, with common elements such as quotes and spoiler brackets A page from a forum showcasing emoticons and Internet slang An Internet forum is a web application for holding discussions and posting user generated content. ...

Revenue model

About 88% of total revenues for the fiscal year 2006 came from marketing services. The largest segment of it comes from search advertising, where advertisers bid for search terms to display their ads on the search results, on average Yahoo makes 2.5 cents to 3 cents from each search. With the new search advertising system "Panama" Yahoo aims to increase revenue generated from search.^[50]

Other forms of advertising which bring in revenue for Yahoo include display and contextual advertising.

Working with comScore the The New York Times found that Yahoo! is able to collect far more data about Web users than its competitors from its Web sites and its advertising network. By one measure, on average Yahoo! had the potential in December 2007 to build a profile of 2,500 records per month about each of its visitors.^[51] comScore is an internet marketing research company that provides marketing data and services to many of the internets largest businesses [1]. comScore tracks all internet data on its surveyed computers, giving it a great deal of insight into online behavior. ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. ...

Financial data

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Yahoo International

It has been suggested that Yahoo!Xtra be merged into this article or section. (Discuss)

Yahoo is known across the world with its multi-lingual interface. The site is available in over 20 languages, including English. International Yahoo! sites include: Image File history File links Mergefrom. ... Yahoo!Xtra is a a new joint venture media company from Yahoo!7 and Telecom New Zealand. ...

•  Argentina Y! Argentina
• Y! Asia
•  Austria Y! Austria
•  Brazil Y! Brazil
•  Catalonia Y! Catalan
•  China Y! China
  • Yahoo! U.S. in Chinese
•  Denmark Y! Denmark
•  Finland Y! Finland
•  France Y! France²
•  Germany Y! Germany²
•  Greece Y! Greece
•  Hong Kong Y! Hong Kong
•  Indonesia Y! Indonesia
  • Formerly Y! Indonesia
•  Italy Y! Italy
•  Japan Y! Japan^1,2
•  South Korea Y! Korea²
•  Malaysia Y! Malaysia
  • Formerly Y! Malaysia
•  Mexico Y! Mexico
•  Netherlands Y! Netherlands
•  Norway Y! Norway
•  Philippines Y! Philippines
  • Formerly Y! Philippines
•  Quebec Y! Quebec (formerly Y! Canada en Français)
•  Russia Y! Russia (formerly Yahoo! U.S. in Russian)
•  Singapore Y! Singapore
•  Spain Y! Spain
•  Sweden Y! Sweden
•  Switzerland Y! Switzerland
•  Taiwan Y! Taiwan (Yahoo!Kimo)
•  Thailand Y! Thailand
  • Formerly Y! Thailand
•  Vietnam Y! Vietnam
•  Puerto Rico Y! Telemundo (Telemundo)
  • Y! U.S. in Espanol

Other English language sites include: Image File history File links Flag_of_Argentina. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Austria. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Brazil. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Catalonia. ... This article is about the Spanish Autonomous Community. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Peoples_Republic_of_China. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Denmark. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Finland. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Germany. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Greece. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Hong_Kong. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Indonesia. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Italy. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Japan. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_South_Korea. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Malaysia. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Mexico. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Netherlands. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Norway. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Philippines. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Quebec. ... This article is about the Canadian province. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Russia. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Singapore. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Spain. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Sweden. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Switzerland. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Thailand. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Vietnam. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Puerto_Rico. ... Telemundo is an American television network based in Hialeah, Florida. ...

•  Australia Y! Australia (Yahoo!7), formerly named "Y! Australia and New Zealand"
•  Canada Y! Canada
•  India Y! India
•  New Zealand Y! New Zealand (Yahoo!Xtra)
•  UK Y! UK & IE²

Each of the international sites are wholly-owned by Yahoo!, with the exception of Yahoo! Japan¹, in which it holds a 33% minority stake. Historically, Yahoo! entered into joint venture agreements with Softbank for the major European sites² (UK, France, Germany) and well as Korea and Japan. In November 2005, Yahoo! purchased the minority interests that Softbank owned in Europe and Korea. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Yahoo!7 is an Australian internet portal that is owned by a 50-50 partnership consisting of the Seven Network and Yahoo! Inc. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_India. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_New_Zealand. ... Yahoo!Xtra is a a new joint venture media company from Yahoo!7 and Telecom New Zealand. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ...

Criticism and controversy

Yahoo paid inclusion controversy

In March 2004, Yahoo launched a paid inclusion program whereby commercial websites are guaranteed listings on the Yahoo search engine after payment.^[53] This scheme is lucrative, but has proved unpopular both with website marketers (who are reluctant to pay), and the public (who are unhappy about the paid-for listings being indistinguishable from other search results).^[54] As of October 2006, Paid Inclusion doesn't guarantee any commercial listing, it only helps the paid inclusion customers, by crawling their site more often and by providing some statistics on the searches that led to the page and some additional smart links (provided by customers as feeds) below the actual url. 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December Deaths • 08 Abu Abbas • 20 Queen Juliana • 28 Peter Ustinov • 30 Alistair Cooke More March 2004 deaths Ongoing events EU Enlargement Exploration of Mars: Rovers Haiti Rebellion Israeli-Palestinian conflict Occupation of Iraq Same-sex marriage in... October 2006 is the tenth month of that year and has yet to occur. ...

Adware and Spyware

Yahoo has also been criticized for funding spyware and adware — advertising from Yahoo's clients often appears on-screen in pop-ups generated from adware that a user may have installed on their computer without realizing it by accepting online offers to download software to fix computer clocks or improve computer security, add browser enhancements, etc. The frequency of advertising pop-ups for spyware, generated from a partnership with advertising distributor Walnut Ventures, who had a direct partnership with Direct Revenue, could be increased or decreased based on Yahoo's immediate revenue needs, according to some former employees in Yahoo's sales department.^[55][56] A large number of toolbars, some added by spyware, overwhelm an Internet Explorer session. ... This article is about advertising-supported software. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Work in China

Yahoo, along with Google China, Microsoft, Cisco, AOL, Skype, Nortel and others, has cooperated with the Chinese government in implementing a system of internet censorship in mainland China. The Google China logo Google China (谷歌, pinyin: gǔ gē, lit. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... Cisco may refer to: Cisco Systems, a computer networking company Cisco IOS, an internet router operating system CISCO Security Private Limited, a security company in Singapore Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation, a statutory board in Singapore Abbreviation for San Francisco, California Cisco (wine) The Cisco Kid, a fictional character created... For other uses, see AOL (disambiguation). ... Skype (IPA: ) is a software program that allows users to make calls over the Internet to other Skype users free of charge and to landlines and cell phones for a fee. ... Northern Telecommunications Networks, commonly known as Nortel, is a telecommunications equipment manufacturer headquartered in Canada. ... The Communist Party of China (CPC) (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ), also known as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the ruling political party of the Peoples Republic of China and also the worlds largest political party. ... Internet censorship in the Peoples Republic of China is conducted under a wide variety of laws and administrative regulations. ...

Unlike Google or Microsoft, which keep confidential records of its users outside mainland China, Yahoo stated that the company will not protect the privacy and confidentiality of its Chinese customers from the authorities.^[57] This article is about the corporation. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ...

Human rights advocates such as Human Rights Watch and media groups such as Reporters Without Borders state that it is "ironic that companies whose existence depends on freedom of information and expression have taken on the role of censor."^[58] Human Rights Watch Banner Human Rights Watch is a United States-based international non-government organization that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. ... Reporters Without Borders, or RWB (French: Reporters sans frontières, Spanish: Reporteros Sin Fronteras, or RSF) is a French origin international non-governmental organization that advocates freedom of the press, founded by its current general-secretary, Robert Menard. ...

Imprisonment of Chinese dissidents

Shi Tao

Main article: Shi Tao

In September 2005, Reporters Without Borders reported the following story. In April 2005, Shi Tao, a journalist working for a Chinese newspaper, was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Changsha Intermediate People's Court of Hunan Province, China (First trial case no. 29), for "providing state secrets to foreign entities". The "secrets" were a brief list of censorship orders he sent from a Yahoo Mail account to the Asia Democracy Forum before the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Incident.^[60] Shi Tao (born 25 July 1968) is a Chinese journalist who was imprisoned for releasing the text of internal Communist Party documents on the Internet. ... April 2005 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - → Hamas and Islamic Jihad have declared, in principle, their intention to join the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). ... Shi Tao (born 25 July 1968) is a Chinese journalist who was imprisoned for releasing the text of internal Communist Party documents on the Internet. ... Changsha (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chang-sha) is the capital city of Hunan, a province of Southcentral China, located on the lower reaches of Xiangjiang river, a branch of the Yangtze River. ... Not to be confused with the unrelated provinces of Hainan and Henan Hunan (湖南; pinyin: Húnán) is a province of China, located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of the Dongting Lake (hence the name Hunan, meaning south of the lake). Hunan is sometimes called... The Unknown Rebel - This famous photo, taken by Associated Press photographer Jeff Widener, depicts a lone protester whose actions halted the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour. ...

The verdict as published by the Chinese government stated the following. Shi Tao had sent the email through an anonymous Yahoo account. Yahoo Holdings (the Hong Kong subsidiary of Yahoo) told the Chinese government that the IP address used to send the email was registered by the Hunan newspaper that Shi Tao worked for. Police went straight to his offices and picked him up. Not to be confused with the unrelated provinces of Hainan, Henan, and Yunnan. ...

In February 2006, Yahoo General Counsel submitted a statement to the U.S. Congress in which Yahoo denied knowing the true nature of the case against Shi Tao.^[61] In April 2006, Yahoo Holdings (Hong Kong) was investigated by Hong Kong's Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data. Media:Example. ...

On 2 June 2006, the union representing journalists in the UK and Ireland (NUJ) called on its 40,000 members to boycott all Yahoo Inc. products and services to protest the Internet company's reported actions in China.^[62] is the 153rd day of the year (154th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) is a trade union for journalists in Britain and Ireland. ...

In July 2007, evidence surfaced detailing the warrant which the Chinese authorities sent to Yahoo officials, highlighting "State Secrets" as the charge against Shi Tao. The warrant requests "Email account registration information for huoyan1989@yahoo.com.cn, all login times, corresponding IP addresses, and relevant email content from February 22, 2004 to present."^[63][64][65] Analyst reports and human rights organizations have said that this evidence directly contradicts Yahoo's testimony before the U.S. Congress in February 2006.^[66] July 2007 is the seventh month of that year. ... is the 53rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Yahoo contends it must respect the laws of governments in jurisdictions where it is operating.

Li Zhi

Main article: Li Zhi (dissident)

Criticism of Yahoo intensified in February 2006 when Reporters Without Borders released Chinese court documents stating that Yahoo aided Chinese authorities in the case of dissident Li Zhi. In December 2003 Li Zhi was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment for "inciting subversion". Li Zhi was sentenced to eight years imprisonment in December 2003 in the Peoples Republic of China for trying to join the China Democratic Party, which is a banned organization in communist China, and for criticizing corruption (ironically suffering the same fate for the same crime as his name... For the Pearl Jam song, see Dissident (song). ... Subversion is an overturning or uprooting. ...

Sued in US court for outing Chinese dissident Wang Xiaoning

Main article: Wang Xiaoning

Wang Xiaoning is a Chinese dissident from Shenyang who was arrested by authorities of the People's Republic of China for publishing controversial material online. Wang Xiaoning (王小宁) is a Chinese dissident from Shenyang who was arrested by authorities of the Peoples Republic of China for publishing controversial material online. ... Wang Xiaoning (王小宁) is a Chinese dissident from Shenyang who was arrested by authorities of the Peoples Republic of China for publishing controversial material online. ... For the Pearl Jam song, see Dissident (song). ... This article is about a city. ...

In 2000 and 2001, Wang, who was an engineer by profession, posted electronic journals in a Yahoo group calling for democratic reform and an end to single-party rule. He was arrested in September 2002 after Yahoo assisted Chinese authorities by providing information. In September 2003, Wang was convicted of charges of "incitement to subvert state power" and sentenced to ten years in prison.^[68] Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... This article is about the year. ... 2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for September, 2002. ... 2003 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for September, 2003. ...

On April 18, 2007, Xiaoning's wife Yu Ling sued Yahoo under human rights laws in federal court in San Francisco, California, United States.^[69] Wang Xiaoning is named as a plaintiff in the Yahoo suit, which was filed with help from the World Organization for Human Rights USA. "Yahoo is guilty of 'an act of corporate irresponsibility,' said Morton Sklar, executive director of the group. 'Yahoo had reason to know that if they provided China with identification information that those individuals would be arrested."^[70] is the 108th day of the year (109th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... A plaintiff, also known as a claimant or complainer, is the party who initiates a lawsuit (also known as an action) before a court. ...

Yahoo's decision to assist China's authoritarian government came as part of a policy of reconciling its services with the Chinese government's policies. This came after China blocked Yahoo services for a time. As reported in The Washington Post and many media sources: The Washington Post is the largest newspaper in Washington, D.C.. It is also one of the citys oldest papers, having been founded in 1877. ...

The suit says that in 2001, Wang was using a Yahoo e-mail account to post anonymous writings to an Internet mailing list. The suit alleges that Yahoo, under pressure from the Chinese government, blocked that account. Wang set up a new account via Yahoo and began sending material again; the suit alleges that Yahoo gave the government information that allowed it to identify and arrest Wang in September 2002. The suit says prosecutors in the Chinese courts cited Yahoo's cooperation.^[70]

Human rights organizations groups are basing their case on a 217-year-old U.S. law to punish corporations for human rights violations abroad, an effort the Bush administration has opposed: This article is about the year. ... 2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for September, 2002. ...

In recent years, activists working with overseas plaintiffs have sued roughly two dozen businesses under the Alien Tort Claims Act, which the activists say grants jurisdiction to American courts over acts abroad that violate international norms. Written by the Founding Fathers in 1789 for a different purpose, the law was rarely invoked until the 1980s.^[70]

On August 28, 2007, the World Organization for Human Rights sued Yahoo for allegedly passing information (email and IP address) with the Chinese government that caused the arrests of writers and dissidents. The suit was filed in San Francisco for journalists, Shi Tao, and Wang Xiaoning. Yahoo stated that it supported privacy and free expression for it worked with other technology companies to solve human rights concerns.^[71] The Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. Sec. ... “Founders” redirects here. ... is the 240th day of the year (241st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... E-mail, or email, is short for electronic mail and is a method of composing, sending, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. ... An IP address (Internet Protocol address) is a unique address that certain electronic devices currently use in order to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet Protocol standard (IP)—in simpler terms, a computer address. ... This article is on the politics of Mainland China. ... The Chicago Police Department arrests a man An arrest is the action of police or other authority, or even in some circumstances a private civilian, to apprehend and take under guard a person who is suspected of committing a crime. ... A dissident is a person who actively opposes the established order. ... Look up Suit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... A journalist is a person who practices journalism. ... Shi Tao (born 25 July 1968) is a Chinese journalist who was imprisoned for releasing the text of internal Communist Party documents on the Internet. ... Wang Xiaoning (王小宁) is a Chinese dissident from Shenyang who was arrested by authorities of the Peoples Republic of China for publishing controversial material online. ... Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to control the flow of information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively. ... Freedom of speech is the liberty to freely say what one pleases, as well as the related liberty to hear what others have stated. ... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ...

On November 6, 2007, the US congressional panel criticised Yahoo for not giving full details to the House Foreign Affairs Committee the previous year, stating it had been "at best inexcusably negligent" and at worst "deceptive".^[72] The U.S. House Committee on International Relations (also known as the House International Relations Committee, the House Foreign Relations Committee or the House Foreign Affairs Committee), is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives which is in charge of bills and investigations related to the foreign...

Chatrooms and message boards

As a result of media scrutiny relating to Internet child predators and a lack of significant ad revenues, Yahoo's "user created" chatrooms were closed down in June 2005.^[73] Yahoo News' message board section was closed on December 19, 2006 due to the trolling phenomenon.^[74] is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial and usually irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, with the intention of baiting other users into an emotional response[1] or to generally disrupt normal on-topic...

Image search

On May 25, 2006, Yahoo's image search was criticized for bringing up sexually explicit images even when SafeSearch was on. This was discovered by a teacher who was intending to use the service with a class to search for "www". Yahoo's response to this was, "Yahoo is aware of this issue and is working to resolve it as quickly as possible".^[75] is the 145th day of the year (146th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Shark finning controversy

Yahoo is a 40% owner of Alibaba, which facilitates the sale of shark-derived products.^[76] After investing in Alibaba, Yahoo executives were asked about this issue, and responded: "We know the sale of shark products is both legal in Asia and a centuries-old tradition. This issue is largely a cultural-practices one."^[77] However, the "cultural" claim (which is pushed by the trade)^[78] has been contested.^[79] Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... For other uses, see Shark (disambiguation). ...

See also

• List of search engines
• List of acquisitions by Yahoo!
• Timeline of events for Yahoo!
• YMSG - Yahoo Messenger Protocol

This is a list of search engines. ... This is a listing of corporate acquisitions made by Yahoo!, since 1997. ... Timeline of major events for Yahoo!. January 1994: Jerry Yang and David Filo create Jerrys Guide to the World Wide Web while studying at Stanford University. ... YMSG is the underlying network protocol used by the Yahoo! Messenger instant messaging client, for Yahoo!. Yahoo! Instant Messager supports many features beyond just messaging, including off-line messaging, file transfer, chat, conferencing, voice chat, webcams and avatars. ...

Notes and references

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