Yahoo! Inc. (2017–present)

Yahoo! Inc.
Formerly
  • Oath Inc.
    (2017–2019)
  • Verizon Media
    (2019–2021)
Company typeJoint venture
Industry
Predecessors
Founded
  • June 13, 2017 (2017-06-13) (as Oath)
  • January 8, 2019 (2019-01-08) (as Verizon Media)
  • September 1, 2021 (2021-09-01) (as Yahoo!)
HeadquartersNew York City, New York, U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Jim Lanzone (CEO)
Brands
Services
Revenue $7.4 billion (2020)
Owners
Number of employees
10,350 (2019)
SubsidiariesFlurry
ASN
Websiteyahooinc.com
Footnotes / references

Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational technology company that focuses on media and online business. It is the second and current incarnation of the company, after Verizon Communications merged the original Yahoo! Inc. and Altaba with AOL in 2017. The resulting subsidiary entity was briefly called Oath Inc. In December 2018, Verizon announced it would write-down the combined value of its purchases of AOL and Yahoo! by $4.6 billion, roughly half; the company was renamed Verizon Media the following month in January 2019.

On May 3, 2021, Verizon announced that 90 percent of the division would be acquired by American private equity firm Apollo Global Management for roughly $5 billion, and would simply be known as Yahoo!; Verizon would retain a ten percent stake in the new group. The acquisition was completed on September 1, 2021.