Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American public corporation with headquarters in Sunnyvale‚ California‚ (in Silicon Valley)‚ that provides services via the Internet worldwide. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal‚ search engine (Yahoo! Search)‚ Yahoo! Directory‚ Yahoo! Mail‚ Yahoo! News‚ advertising‚ online mapping (Yahoo! Maps)‚ video sharing (Yahoo! Video)‚ and social media websites and services. Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated
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Case Study –Yahoo! Inc. 1. Case Title Yahoo! Inc. 2. Brief History/Background of the Case Yahoo! Inc is an internet service provider that services both users and business globally. The company was found in 1944 by David Filo and Jerry Yang who were attending Stanford University(PHD Program). In 1995‚Yahoo!Inc was incorporated in Delaware and launched a highly successful initial public offering IPO in April 1996 with a total of 49 employees. Its stock rose to the high of $120 in
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organizational theory‚ design‚ and change by Gareth R. jones and Mary Mathew). Yahoo was operating in Dynamic environment because in 1994 Yahoo started with their human powered search engine‚ as it grew they started to identify some problems which later solved by recruiting the human volunteers. In 1994 hundreds of thousands of users started visiting there website and it was then became primary search portal for the users. Yahoo realized that there is huge potential in their search engine portal model
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Table of Contents Introduction History of the Microsoft Company History of the Yahoo Company Merger Conclusion Reference Introduction Voluntary amalgamation of two firms on approximately equal terms into one new legal entity called merger. Mergers are effected by exchange of the pre-merger stock (shares) for the stock of the new firm. Owners of each pre-merger firm continue as owners‚ and the resources of
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lacked due to low barrier to entry. 2. Services offered by yahoo are similarly to its competitors so product differentiation is difficult. 3. Yahoo faces the problem of low growth in various products which it offered. 4. Offering so many products that cause diversion in attention. Opportunities 1. Strong internet based platform. 2. Opportunity to increase in market share through merger or partnership with other companies like yahoo. 3. Global expansion especially in Asian countries to reduce
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Reaction Paper – Yahoo! C.E.O. Resigns Over Padded Resume On the 13th of May‚ 2012‚ the Yahoo! C.E.O‚ Scott Thompson decided to part ways with the company. His reason for resignation: he had had surgery for thyroid cancer several weeks earlier and was on medication which in turn could affect his performance as C.E.O. However‚ this event was the culmination of a tumultuous period at Yahoo! And if I were a decision maker in this case‚ aware of the recently opened can of worms‚ I would have definitely
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search engines are Yahoo and Google. Although Yahoo and Google both perform the same task‚ Google is a better search engine because it has a simple layout and provides links that are more relevant to the item that is being searched for. Google has a simple homepage that is about 90% white with a search bar in the center below its logo. Yahoo’s homepage has a variety of items on it such as moving images and attention-grabbing headlines. This argument may seem like it is in favor of Yahoo‚ but in reality
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Yahoo! Inc.‚ over its journey of almost 17 years has become the world’s largest online network integrated services provider with users exceeding 500 million in numbers worldwide (Yahoo FAQ‚ 2012). It has a presence in more than twenty markets and regions across the globe and is best known for its search engine and host of other services like finance‚ e-mail‚ advertising and social media. Yahoo! Inc. was started as a personal website directory by two doctorate candidates at
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on Yahoo Case study Yahoo was conceptualized almost accidentally in 1993 by Jerry Yang and David Filo - who were pursuing their electrical engineering degree from Stanford University - while posting a list of their favorite sites on the web‚ got officially founded in 1994 and incorporated in the year 1995. Initially named “Jerry’s guide to world wide web”‚ got later named Yahoo which was an acronym for “Yet another Hierarchal Officious Oracle”. The term “Hierarchal” described how the Yahoo database
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Google or Yahoo!? Nowadays people use search engine for almost everything for faster answers and it seems like there are a variety of programs that different people use. Which search engine do you use when you want to find out information about sports‚ music‚ education and other things? Many people argue about which search engines on the internet work the best‚ and there are two engines that seem to lead these debates. Google and Yahoo are two different but also similar search engines that have
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