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Yahoo! Inc. is a global Internet communications, commerce, and media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services to more than 120 million users each month worldwide. As the first online navigational guide to the World Wide Web, www.yahoo.com is the leading guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household, and business user reach, and is one of the most recognized brands associated with the Internet. The company also provides online business services designed to enhance Yahoo!'s clients' Web services, including audio and video streaming, store hosting and management, and Web site tools and services. The company's global Web network includes 21 World properties. Yahoo! has offices in Europe, the Asia Pacific, Latin America, Canada and the United States, and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Yahoo! was developed and first made available in 1994 by the Company's founders, David Filo and Jerry Yang, while they were graduate students at Stanford University. The Company was incorporated in California on March 5, 1995, and commenced operations on that date. On May 18, 1999 the Company reincorporated in Delaware. In August 1995, the company commenced selling advertisements on its Web pages and recognized i
Yahoo! is at an important crossroads, as it is faced by projections for its earnings per share for 2001 that will be below last year's levels, marking the first year-over-year drop in its history. Yahoo! may be a good company to buy and hold as a long term investment, but as for the short-term it still faces possible downside. As good as Yahoo!'s prospects are for the future, with all of its new sources of revenue as well as with the new pay services it is implementing, Yahoo! still faces near term uncertainty for shareholders. With all of the market turmoil over the possibility of recession and economic downturn, Yahoo!'s current instability leaves it with room for a greater decrease in share price. I do however believe that over the long term Yahoo! has a strong outlook and will perform well for its shareholders. Although compelling at these levels, I would not buy shares in Yahoo! for the short term, as in the next 6 months I don't see any improvement in Yahoo!'s finances. ! During the last 12 months, the stock market has seen a huge downfall in the share prices of almost every computer and internet related company, as investors have begun to realize that sky-high valuations were not justified by the companies' prospects. This has forced many previously high flying companies down to the ground, if not under. As the "dot-com shakeout" has taken place, Yahoo! has found that its advertising business has come under fire, as many companies are not spending nearly as much on advertising and are beginning to focus on corporate earnings. (Currently, advertising accounts for 90 percent of the portal's income.) In turn, Yahoo!'s profits have been hurt, and it is also seeking for ways to improve its bottom line. Yahoo! reported fourth quarter earnings that met Wall Street's expectations, but the company offered a dism
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