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How does Yahoo make money?

Yahoo! Inc. (Yahoo!), together with its consolidated subsidiaries, is a global Internet brand. Together with its owned and operated online properties and services (Yahoo! Properties or Owned and Operated sites), the Company also provides its advertising offerings and access to Internet users beyond Yahoo! through its distribution network of third-party entities (Affiliates), who have integrated its advertising offerings into their Websites, referred to as Affiliate sites, or their other offerings. The Company generates revenues by providing marketing services to advertisers across a majority of Yahoo! Properties and Affiliate sites. The Company provides services in more than 30 languages and in more than 30 countries, regions, and territories, including localized versions of Yahoo!. Its offerings to users on Yahoo! Properties fall into six categories: Front Doors, Communities, Search, Communications, Audience, and Connected Life.

Yahoo Directors

• Jerry Yang   Chief Yahoo, Director 

• David Filo   Chief Yahoo 

• Aristotle N. Balogh   Executive Vice President - Products, Chief Technology Officer 

• Michael J. Callahan   Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary 

• Hilary A. Schneider   Executive Vice President, North America 

• Penny Baldwin   Senior Vice President - Global Integrated Marketing and Brand Management 

• Jeff Russakow   Senior Vice President - Customer Advocacy 

• Google Inc.

• MSFT Microsoft Corporation

• EBAY eBay Inc.

• TWX Time Warner Inc.  

• T AT&T Inc.

• BIDU Baidu, Inc.

• SOHU Sohu.com Inc.
• NWSA News Corporation

• HPQ Hewlett-Packard Company

• AAPL Apple Inc.

-Yahoo! holds a 40% stake in Alibaba, which manages a web portal in China using the Yahoo! brand name. Yahoo! in the USA does not have direct control over the operations of Alibaba, which operates as a completely independent company.

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