The company is the Internet's leading global consumer and business services company. Some of Yahoo's communication services are Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Chat, and Yahoo! Photos. Some of the commerce services are Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Finance. The company reaches over 232 million users worldwide. Traffic averages 1.9 billion page views per day. Companies that Yahoo acquired are Hotjobs, eGroups, Classic Games, MyQuest, Launch Media, Geocities, Corporate Yahoo!, and Broadcast.com. Corporate Yahoo! is an information site that allows companies to communicate and interact with their employees. Broadcast services is a provider of audio and vedio streaming solutions for corporate and consumer communications.
Yahoo went public in April of 1996. The comapny is traded on the Nasdaq under YHOO. On the day of the IPO Yahoo opened at $13.00 per share and closed at $33.00 per share. It had 49 employees at the time.