Interview Date: 7th February 2011

About Yahoo

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American internet corporation founded in Santa Clara, Californiaand headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. 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 mediawebsites and services. It is one of the largest websites in theUnited States.^[2]

Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995. On January 13, 2009, Yahoo! appointed Carol Bartz, former executive chairperson of Autodesk, as its new chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors.^[3]