Yahoo
Yahoo! Inc. is an American internet services company with the mission of being "the most essential global internet service for consumers and businesses." It operates an internet portal, a web directory, and other services, including Yahoo! Mail. It was founded by Jerry Yang, a Stanford University graduate, in January 1994 and incorporated on March 2, 1995. The company's headquarters are in Sunnyvale, California. In the "Ad Planner Top 1000 Sites," which tracks the most accessed websites in the world through Google's search engine, released in June 2010, Yahoo! appears in 2nd place, with 490 million visits and a global reach of 32% recorded in April, behind only the social networking site Facebook. Services offered by the company include Yahoo! Messenger, an instant messaging service, and Yahoo! Groups, a service for creating mailing lists by subject of interest, online chat and games, various news and information portals, online shopping, and auctions. Many of these are based on independent services that Yahoo! acquired, such as EGroups, the popular GeoCities for web hosting, and Rocketmail. Many of these acquisitions displeased some users who had been using these services before Yahoo! acquired them, as the company frequently changed the terms of service. One notable example of this was the acquisition of the webring service in 2000. On February 1, 2008, Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion, but Yahoo! officially rejected the offer, stating that it undervalued the company.



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