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Yahoo! Inc. provides Internet services to users, advertisers, publishers, and developers worldwide. It offers online properties and services to users; and marketing solutions and tools to advertisers and publishers.

The company’s front door offerings include Yahoo! Front Page, My Yahoo!, and Yahoo! Toolbar; search products comprise Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! Yellow Pages, Yahoo! Maps, Yahoo! Local, Yahoo! Shopping, Kelkoo, Yahoo! Travel, Yahoo! Personals, and Yahoo! Answers that allow user to navigate the Internet and search for information from their computer or mobile device; and communications and communities product line includes Yahoo! Mail, Zimbra Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! 360 degrees, and Flickr.

It provides information products, such as Yahoo! News that aggregates news stories; Yahoo! Finance that offers financial resources; Yahoo! Sports; and Rivals.com, providing online college and high school sports and recruiting information. Its entertainment products comprise Yahoo! Music, Yahoo! Movies and Yahoo! TV, Yahoo! Games, Yahoo! Video, and omg!.

The company also offers Yahoo! Autos that enable users to research, price, and compare cars online; Yahoo! Real Estate for real estate information; Yahoo! Food, an online food destination; Yahoo! Tech that offers information on consumer electronics; Yahoo! Kids, an entertainment and educational Internet guide; and Yahoo! Health, a healthcare destination.

In addition, it provides Yahoo! Mobile, Yahoo! Digital Home, and Yahoo! Desktop to access its content and communities across Internet-enabled devices. Further, the company offers Yahoo! Broadband; Yahoo! Hot Jobs, an online recruitment solution; and Yahoo! Small Business online services. It has strategic partnerships with AT&T, Inc.; Verizon Communications, Inc.; BT Telecommunications PLC; Rogers Cable, Inc.; and Newspaper Consortium. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

What they Do

Yahoo! powers and delights our communities of users, advertisers, and publishers - all of them united in creating indispensable experiences, and fueled by trust.

How they Make a Difference

Yahoo! is also committed to empowering its users and employees through programs, products, and services that inspire people to make a positive impact on their communities. Yahoo! for Good connects people with causes through their products and services, as well as through partnerships with nonprofits such as Global Green, Network for Good, and Donors Choose. Yahoo! also channels the generosity of its employees through the Yahoo! Employee Foundation, a grassroots philanthropic organization that brings together the talents, time, and financial resources of Yahoo! employees. The foundation has given millions of dollars in grants to organizations around the world.

Yahoo! India

Set up in 2000, Yahoo! India is a subsidiary of Yahoo! Inc providing Internet services, technological tools and marketing solutions for businesses both in India and internationally. It offers an array of products and services such as Search, Communications services like mail, messenger, calendar, chat, greetings, clubs, and photos, and various commercial services, such as shopping, auctions, finance, and travel, as well as content and media programming services such as sports, cricket, music, movies, news, jobs, greetings, matrimony and games through partnerships with various content providers.

Yahoo! Research & Development

The Yahoo R&D center’s core activity includes developing innovative technologies and global product platforms for Yahoo Inc. The R&D center focuses on Product Engineering, Technology Research, Market Innovation and Engineering Services.

The Product Engineering Group builds global platforms and applications for high quality software systems. The group works in partnership with businesses to meet evolving market challenges and co-ordinate with engineering teams worldwide. The Technology Research Group builds high-value technologies that improve or change user behavior. The Market Innovation Group aims at establishing value propositions for technologies in user and business analysis.

The Global Solutions Delivery (Y! GSD) group’s activities can be broadly classified into Engineering Services and Business Services. Engineering Services consists of providing a broad and comprehensive range of application, infrastructure and infrastructure services to Yahoo Inc.

These include custom application development and deployment, sustenance and service engineering, monitoring and supporting mission critical infrastructure and applications, quality and performance engineering.

Business Services are in the nature of content management, collation and editing, categorization, etc. which are focused on enhancing End User Experience.
These are done in partnership with various groups in Yahoo Inc, spread across multiple geographies.

Mission it to connect people to their passions, their communities, and the world's knowledge. Mission is influenced by a set of core values - the standards that guide interactions with fellow Yahoos, the principles that direct how they service their customers, the ideals that drive what they do and how they do it.

Founded:   Santa Clara, California (March 1, 1995)
Founders:   Jerry Yang David Filo
Headquarters: 701 First Ave. Sunnyvale, California, <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States
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Contact:
Yahoo India Pvt Ltd
7th Floor, Bagmane Tridib,
Block A, Bagmane Tech Park,
C.V. Raman Nagar,
Bangalore - 560 093

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