Top 5 Internet Companies To Invest In 2015

Top 5 Internet Companies To Invest In 2015: Yahoo! Inc.(YHOO)

Yahoo! Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a digital media company that delivers personalized digital content and experiences through various devices worldwide. It offers online properties and services to users; and a range of marketing services to businesses. The company?s communications and communities offerings include Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, Flickr, and Connected TV, which provide a range of communication and social services to users and small businesses enabling users to organize into groups and share knowledge, common interests, and photos. Its search products comprise Yahoo! Search and Yahoo! Local, available free to users to navigate the Internet and discover content. The company?s marketplaces offerings and services include Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Travel, Yahoo! Real Estate, Yahoo! Autos, and Yahoo! Small Business, which allow users to research specific topics, products, services, or areas of interest by review i ng and exchanging information, obtaining contact details, or considering offers from providers of goods, services, or parties with similar interests. Its media offerings comprise Yahoo! Homepage, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! Finance, My Yahoo!, Yahoo! Toolbar, Yahoo! Entertainment & Lifestyles, Yahoo! Contributor Network, and Yahoo! Pulse, which are designed to engage users with online content and services on the Web. The company also offers marketing services, such as display and search advertising, listing-based services, and commerce-based transactions to advertisers. In addition, it provides software and platform offerings for third-party developers, advertisers, and publishers, such as Yahoo! Developer Network, Yahoo! Open Strategy, Yahoo! Application Platform, Yahoo! Updates, Yahoo! Query Language, and Yahoo! Search BOSS. The company has strategic alliances with Nokia and ABC News, Inc. Yahoo! Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Sunnyval! e, Californi a.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Tim Beyers]

  Video could soon play a bigger part on Yahoo!'s (NASDAQ: YHOO  ) local news and event coverage, Fool contributor Tim Beyers says in the following video.

• [By Eric Volkman]

  In the latest in a lengthening string of acquisitions, Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO  ) has bought another niche Internet company. The Internet conglomerate has absorbed Xobni, an email indexing service, according to posts both on Yahoo!'s Tumblr and Xobni's home page. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed, although The Wall Street Journal's AllThingsD quoted a range of $30 million-$40 million, citing sources "close to the company" that it did not name.

• [By WALLSTCHEATSHEET]

  Yahoo is an Internet bellwether that provides a multitude of services to consumers and companies worldwide. The company announced its second acquisition of the week, scooping up the team behind DreamWorks Animations Ptch app. The stock has been moving higher in recent quarters and is now trading near all time highs. Over the last four quarters, earnings and revenues have been mixed, which have produced conflicting feelings among investors about earnings announcements. Relative to its peers and sector, Yahoo has been a year-to-date performance leader. Look for Yahoo to OUTPERFORM.

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