List of mergers and acquisitions by Yahoo

Inc. is a computer software and web search engine company founded on March 1, 1995.

[1] The company is a public corporation and its headquarters is located in Sunnyvale, California.

[2] It was founded by Stanford University graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo in 1994.

[3] According to web traffic analysis companies, Yahoo has been one of the most visited websites on the Internet, with more than 130 million unique users per month in the United States alone.

[4][5][6] Yahoo's first acquisition was the purchase of Net Controls, a web search engine company, in September 1997 for US$1.4 million.