Yahoo! Mail is an email service launched on October 8, 1997, by the American company Yahoo, Inc. It offers four different email plans: three for personal use and another for businesses. As of January 2020, Yahoo! Mail has 225 million users.

When was Yahoo email invented?

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.

Is Yahoo a dead company?

After Yahoo first launched in 1994, users flocked to the web portal for their online news, email and search needs. ... A string of poor business choices has ultimately led to the company's demise, and recently Verizon agreed to purchase Yahoo's core business for $4.83 billion.