Yahoo!, in full Yahoo! Inc., global Internet services provider based in Sunnyvale, California. It was founded in 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, graduate students at Stanford University in California. Yahoo! provides users with online utilities, information, and access to other Web sites.Yahoo To Buy OvertureYahoo is to acquire Overture by the end of 2003, in a move that has repercussions throughout the search landscape.Yahoo has announced an agreement to buy Overture, in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $1.6 billion. The purchase is expected to close by the end of the year.The planned acquisition is the latest in a
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