Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is a computer services company with a mission to "be the most essential global Internet service for consumers and businesses". It operates an Internet portal, the Yahoo! Directory and a host of other services including the popular Yahoo! Mail. It was founded by Stanford graduate students David Filo and Jerry Yang in January 1994 and incorporated on March 2, 1995. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

According to Alexa Internet and Netcraft, both of which are Web trends companies, Yahoo! is the most visited website on the Internet today. The global network of Yahoo! websites received 3.4 billion page views per day on average as of October 2005.

In June 2005 Yahoo! acquired blo.gs, a service based on RSS feed aggregation, primarily from weblogs (hence the name), which produces a simple list (and also an RSS feed thereof) of freshly updated Weblogs, ordered according to recentness of update. blo.gs was the first Internet company hosted on a domain hack Yahoo! acquired, del.icio.us being the second.

As Yahoo!'s popularity has increased, so has the range of features it offers, making it a kind of one-stop shop for all the popular activities of the Internet. These now include: Yahoo! Mail, a Web-based e-mail service, an instant messaging client, a very popular mailing list service (Yahoo! Groups), online gaming and chat, various news and information portals, online shopping and auction facilities.

Many of these are based at least in part on previously independent services, which Yahoo! has acquired - such as the popular GeoCities free Web-hosting service, Rocketmail, and various competing mailing list providers such as eGroups.

Many of these take-overs were controversial and unpopular with users of the existing services, as Yahoo! often changed the relevant terms of service. An example of this would be their claiming intellectual property rights for the content on their servers, which the original companies had not done.

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Report: Carl Icahn will lead mutiny against Yahoo board (AP via Yahoo! News)

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn reportedly plans to try overthrowing Yahoo's entire board to clear the way for Microsoft to renew its attempt to buy Yahoo.

Icahn to launch proxy battle for Yahoo: report (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn plans to launch a proxy battle this week to gain power on Yahoo's board, aiming to push it back into takeover talks with Microsoft, the Wall Street Journal reported late Wednesday.

Report: Investor to lead fight against Yahoo board (AP via Yahoo! News)

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn reportedly has decided to lead a mutiny against Yahoo Inc.'s board in an attempt to pressure the directors into reviving negotiations to sell Yahoo to Microsoft Corp.

Icahn Said to Plan Yahoo Proxy Fight (New York Times)

Carl Icahn has decided to move ahead with plans for a proxy fight at Yahoo and will propose a dissident slate of directors, people with knowledge of the plans said.

Yahoo not out of Microsoft's shadows (CNN Money)

Disgruntled Yahoo investors have until Thursday to decide if they want to shake up the company's board of directors.

Icahn reportedly moves to oust Yahoo's board (USA Today)

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn on Wednesday hatched plans to shove aside Yahoo's board, according to Bloomberg News.

Icahn to Seek Control of Yahoo's Board, Person Says (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)

May 14 (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire investor Carl Icahn plans to nominate his own slate of directors at Yahoo! Inc. 's next annual meeting after buying a stake in the Internet company, a person familiar with the plans said.