Yahoo! Labs

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Yahoo! Labs served as Yahoo!'s research arm.

Yahoo! Labs includes approximately 200 research scientists and engineers. Yahoo! Labs applies its scientific findings in powering products for Yahoo!'s users and enhancing value for its partners and advertisers.

The mission statement of Yahoo! Labs is "To power Yahoo!'s most critical products with innovative science."

Yahoo! Labs:

Covers the spectrum from use-inspired foundational research to applied science

Anticipates and invent technology-based opportunities

Creates technology that is used by hundreds of millions of customers every day

Provides scientific insights on Yahoo!'s key growth areas: mobile, video, native advertising, and social

Explores fundamental computational, social, and economic phenomena

Works extremely closely with Yahoo! software development organizations

Includes leaders in the international scientific research community

Works closely with the world’s leading universities

Yahoo! Labs is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA; it has three additional locations worldwide: New York, New York; London, England; and Haifa, Israel. Yahoo Labs Barcelona was closed in early 2015.

On February 17, 2016, Yahoo! announced that Yahoo! Labs is shutting down and replaced with Yahoo! Research.

Scientists