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Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational Internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It is globally known for its Web portal, search engine Yahoo Search, and related services, including Yahoo Directory, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Groups, Yahoo Answers,advertising, online mapping, video sharing, fantasy sports and its social media website. According to news sources, roughly 700 million people visit Yahoo websites every month. Yahoo itself claims it attracts "more than half a billion consumers every month in more than 30 languages.

Communication

Yahoo provides Internet communication services such as Yahoo Messenger and Yahoo Mail. As of May 2007, its e-mail service would offer unlimited storage. Yahoo provided social networking services and user-generated content, including products such as My Web, Yahoo Personals, Yahoo 360°, Delicious, Flickr, and Yahoo Buzz. Yahoo closedYahoo Buzz, MyBlogLog, and numerous other products on April 21, 2011. Yahoo provided social networking services and user-generated content, including products such as My Web, Yahoo Personals, Yahoo 360°, Delicious, Flickr, and Yahoo Buzz. Yahoo closedYahoo Buzz, MyBlogLog, and numerous other products on April 21, 2011.

Mobile Services

Yahoo Mobile offers services for email, instant messaging, and mobile blogging, as well as information services, searches and alerts. Services for the camera phone include entertainment and ring tones. As of 2012 Yahoo used Novarra's mobile content transcoding service for OneSearch. On October 8, 2010, Yahoo announced plans to bring video chat to mobile phones via Yahoo Messenger.

Privacy

In September 2013 The Indian Express reported that Yahoo! received 29 thousand requests for information about users from governments in the first six months of 2013. Over 12 thousands of the requests came from the United States In October 2013, The Washington Post reported that the U.S. National Security Agency intercepted communications between Yahoo's data centers, as part of a program namedMUSCULAR.

Logos and themes

The first logo appeared when the company was founded in 1995—it was red with three icons on each side. On September 19, 2013, Yahoo! launched a new version of the "My Yahoo" personalized homepage. The redesign allows users to tailor a homepage with widgets that access features such as email accounts, calendars, Flickr and other Yahoo content, and Internet content. Users can also select "theme packs" that represent artists such as Polly Apfelbaum and Alec Monopoly, and bands such as Empire of the Sun.[130] Mayer then explained at a conference in late September 2013 that the logo change was the result of feedback from both external parties and employees. Yahoo International Yahoo offers a multi-lingual interface. The site is available in over 20 languages. The official directory for all of the Yahoo International sites is world.yahoo.com. The company's international sites are wholly owned by Yahoo, with the exception of its Japan and China sites. Yahoo officially entered the MENA region when it acquired Maktoob, a pan-regional, Arabic-language hosting and social services online portal, on August 25, 2009.[121] Since the service is pan-regional, Yahoo officially became Yahoo Maktoob in the region On December 31, 2012, Yahoo Korea shut down all its services and left the country, with its previous domain saying in Korean, "Starting from December 31, 2012, Yahoo! Korea has ended. You can go to the original Yahoo! for more Yahoo's information. On September 2, 2013, Yahoo China shut down and is being redirected to taobao.com.

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