Yahoo! Inc., a technology company, provides search, content, and communication tools on the Web and on mobile devices worldwide. It operates Yahoo.com that offers Yahoo! Search, which provides users with a free search capability; Yahoo! News that provides news via text, photos, and video; and Yahoo! Sports, which offers fantasy sports, editorial reporting, real-time scores, statistics and breaking news, and global sports events and premium college sports coverage. The company’s Yahoo.com also provides Yahoo! Finance that offers a set of financial data, information, and tools for users to make financial decisions; Yahoo! Entertainment and Lifestyles, which is a collection of properties focused on trends and information in culture, women’s issues, and media; Yahoo! Video that provides news, finance, sports, entertainment, and lifestyle video content; and Yahoo! Toolbar, a Web browser add-on. It also provides communications tools, including Yahoo! Mail that provides users with e-mail, instant messaging, and mobile text messaging, as well as integrated contacts and calendar functionality; and Yahoo! Messenger, an instant messaging service. In addition, the company offers mobile and emerging products, including IntoNow from Yahoo! for watching TV; and Yahoo! Connected TV, a software platform that provides interactive television, as well as provides user-generated content products, such as Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, and Flickr that allow users to create, share, and discover ideas, interests, and photography. Further, it offers a range of marketing services, such as display advertising, search advertising, listing-based services, and commerce-based transactions to advertisers; and APIs, such as Yahoo! Developer Network, Cocktails, Yahoo! Query Language, Yahoo! User Interface, Search BOSS, and Yahoo! Flickr API for third-party developers, advertisers, agencies, publishers, and designers. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

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