Yahoo.com Biography & Web Analysis

Yahoo!, Inc. is an American web program provider located in Sunnyvale, California, and owned by Verizon Media. The original Yahoo! company was established by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. Yahoo was one of the leaders on the early Internet era during the 1990s. 

Yahoo! developed rapidly all through the 1990s and enhanced into a web-based portal, followed by various prominent acquisitions. The company's stock cost skyrocketed during the dot-com bubble and closed at an unsurpassed high of US$118.75 in 2000; however, after the dot-com bubble burst, it arrived at a record-breaking low of US$8.11 in 2001. Yahoo! officially rejected an obtaining offer from the Microsoft Corporation in 2008. In early 2012, the biggest layoff in Yahoo's! history was completed and 2,000 14% of their workforce employee's lost their jobs. 

Then one of the biggest Internet companies, Yahoo gradually declined starting in the late 2000s, and in 2017 Verizon Communications acquired a large portion of Yahoo's Internet business for $4.48 billion, excluding its stakes in Alibaba Group and Yahoo! Japan, which were moved to Yahoo's replacement company Altaba. Despite its decline from unmistakable quality, Yahoo domain sites are still among the most popular, ranking 10th on the planet as indicated by the Alexa rankings as of October 2019.