2006-07-03 02:40:38 · 16 answers · asked by LikeTotallyDude 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Other - Business & Finance
David Filo and Jerry Yang
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American computer services company with a mission to "be the most essential global Internet service for consumers and businesses". It operates an Internet portal, the Yahoo! Directory and a host of other services including the popular Yahoo! Mail. It was founded by Stanford graduate students David Filo and Jerry Yang in January of 1994 and incorporated on March 2, 1995. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
According to Web trends companies Alexa Internet and Netcraft, Yahoo! is the most visited website on the Internet today with more than 400 million unique users. The global network of Yahoo! websites received 3.4 billion page views per day on average as of October 2005.
2006-07-03 02:44:20 · answer #1 · answered by ♠šCep†ΩЯque♠ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the shareholders do. as in, those who own stock in Yahoo. this changes every day as this is a publicly listed company and the shares trade on market but if you're really interested i could let u know who the biggest shareholders are & what percentage of the company they own... (dont have access to bloomberg right now, but wouldnt be very difficult to look up)
2006-07-03 09:57:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mr. Yahoo
2006-07-03 09:42:27 · answer #3 · answered by MJ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The stockholders.
P.S. I'll bet chance006, the only other person to be able to answer, has a position (that is, owns stock) w/ Yahoo!. Hey, chance006, I took a bath on Google, last quarter.
2006-07-03 09:43:44 · answer #4 · answered by silvercomet 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
King Yah of the Hoos who lives in a binary palace deep within the world wide web...
2006-07-03 09:43:52 · answer #5 · answered by wanderklutz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jerry Yang is the main shareholder and the rest is with public and FII's and other financial institutions.
2006-07-03 10:14:10 · answer #6 · answered by eklavyam 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the owner's name must be yahoo because normally the founder uses his/her own name.
2006-07-03 09:43:16 · answer #7 · answered by PunkGreen1829 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Funky people!!
But not someone called YAHOO thats just idiotic!!
Say no to jesus!!!
2006-07-03 09:43:34 · answer #8 · answered by Ben 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The shareholders.
2006-07-03 09:42:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo-di means jewish in arabic , I wonder if it is related???
2006-07-03 09:46:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋