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	▲$6.7 billion USD (2007)[1]
Operating income	▲ $730 million USD (2007)[2]
Employees	13,600 (October 18, 2007)
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.

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. 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]

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]

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]