Altaba (AABA) 10-Q 2014 Q1 Quarterly report

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Form 10-Q

x QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2014

or

¨ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from              to             

Commission File Number 000-28018

Yahoo! Inc.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware	77-0398689
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

701 First Avenue

Sunnyvale, California 94089

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (408) 349-3300

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    Yes  x    No  ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to submit and post such files).    Yes  x    No  ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Large accelerated filer	x	Accelerated filer	¨
Non-accelerated filer	¨  (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)	Smaller reporting company	¨

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).    Yes  ¨    No  x

Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the issuer’s classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date.

Class	Outstanding at April 30, 2014
Common Stock, $0.001 par value	1,006,808,134

YAHOO! INC.

Table of Contents

PART I	FINANCIAL INFORMATION	3
Item 1.	Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited)	3
	Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2013 and March 31, 2014 (unaudited)	3
	Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income for the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014 (unaudited)	4
	Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income for the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014 (unaudited)	5
	Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014 (unaudited)	6
	Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited)	7
Item 2.	Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations	29
Item 3.	Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk	44
Item 4.	Controls and Procedures	46
PART II	OTHER INFORMATION	47
Item 1.	Legal Proceedings	47
Item 1A.	Risk Factors	47
Item 2.	Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds	61
Item 3.	Defaults Upon Senior Securities	61
Item 4.	Mine Safety Disclosures	61
Item 5.	Other Information	61
Item 6.	Exhibits	61
	Signatures	62

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PART I —FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Item 1. Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited)

YAHOO! INC.

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets

	December 31, 2013			March 31, 2014
	(Unaudited, in thousands except par values)
ASSETS
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	$	2,077,590		$	1,198,016
Short-term marketable securities		1,330,304			1,741,494
Accounts receivable, net		979,559			879,992
Prepaid expenses and other current assets		638,404			662,372
Total current assets		5,025,857			4,481,874
Long-term marketable securities		1,589,500			1,631,819
Property and equipment, net		1,488,518			1,479,406
Goodwill		4,679,648			4,699,319
Intangible assets, net		417,808			393,355
Other long-term assets		177,281			178,319
Investments in equity interests		3,426,347			3,728,823
Total assets	$	16,804,959		$	16,592,915
LIABILITIES AND EQUITY
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable	$	138,031		$	156,782
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities		907,782			746,828
Deferred revenue		294,499			291,265
Total current liabilities		1,340,312			1,194,875
Convertible notes		1,110,585			1,125,251
Long-term deferred revenue		258,904			222,366
Capital lease and other long-term liabilities		116,605			108,847
Deferred and other long-term tax liabilities		847,956			978,372
Total liabilities		3,674,362			3,629,711
Commitments and contingencies (Note 12)		—			—
Yahoo! Inc. stockholders’ equity:
Common stock, $0.001 par value; 5,000,000 shares authorized; 1,019,812 shares issued and 1,014,338 shares outstanding as of December 31, 2013 and 1,028,144 shares issued and 1,010,730 shares outstanding as of March 31, 2014		1,015			1,023
Additional paid-in capital		8,688,304			8,811,720
Treasury stock at cost, 5,474 shares as of December 31, 2013 and 17,414 shares as of March 31, 2014		(200,228	)		(649,806	)
Retained earnings		4,267,429			4,579,007
Accumulated other comprehensive income		318,389			163,239
Total Yahoo! Inc. stockholders’ equity		13,074,909			12,905,183
Noncontrolling interests		55,688			58,021
Total equity		13,130,597			12,963,204
Total liabilities and equity	$	16,804,959		$	16,592,915

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

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YAHOO! INC.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income

	Three Months Ended
	March 31, 2013			March 31, 2014
	(Unaudited, in thousands except per share amounts)
Revenue	$	1,140,368		$	1,132,730
Operating expenses:
Cost of revenue — traffic acquisition costs		66,068			45,909
Cost of revenue — other		278,007			280,844
Sales and marketing		257,019			329,846
Product development		219,580			281,632
General and administrative		133,421			136,493
Amortization of intangibles		7,365			18,340
Restructuring (reversals) charges, net		(7,062	)		9,487
Total operating expenses		954,398			1,102,551
Income from operations		185,970			30,179
Other income (expense), net		17,072			(13,453	)
Income before income taxes and earnings in equity interests		203,042			16,726
Provision for income taxes		(29,736	)		(4,217	)
Earnings in equity interests		217,588			301,402
Net income		390,894			313,911
Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests		(609	)		(2,333	)
Net income attributable to Yahoo! Inc.	$	390,285		$	311,578
Net income attributable to Yahoo! Inc. common stockholders per share — basic	$	0.36		$	0.31
Net income attributable to Yahoo! Inc. common stockholders per share — diluted	$	0.35		$	0.29
Shares used in per share calculation — basic		1,094,170			1,009,890
Shares used in per share calculation — diluted		1,108,095			1,031,420
Stock-based compensation expense by function:
Cost of revenue — other	$	3,578		$	22,687
Sales and marketing		16,045			52,638
Product development		8,263			13,927
General and administrative		16,719			19,929

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

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YAHOO! INC.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income

	Three Months Ended
	March 31, 2013			March 31, 2014
	(Unaudited, in thousands)
Net income	$	390,894		$	313,911
Available-for-sale securities:
Unrealized gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities, net of taxes of $154 and $(898) for the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively		1,036			6,728
Reclassification adjustment for realized (gains) losses on available-for-sale securities included in net income, net of taxes of $24 and $8 for the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively		(37	)		(12	)
Net change in unrealized gains on available-for-sale securities, net of tax		999			6,716
Foreign currency translation adjustments (“CTA”):
Foreign CTA gains (losses), net of taxes of $162 and $236 for the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively		(281,505	)		(146,857	)
Net investment hedge CTA gains (losses), net of taxes of $(101,296) and $8,432 for the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively		168,714			(14,049	)
Net foreign CTA losses, net of tax		(112,791	)		(160,906	)
Cash flow hedges:
Unrealized gains (losses) on cash flow hedges, net of taxes of $0 and $304 for the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively		—			(506	)
Reclassification adjustment for realized (gains) losses on cash flow hedges included in net income, net of taxes of $0 and $273 for the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively		—			(454	)
Net change in unrealized losses on cash flow hedges, net of tax		—			(960	)
Other comprehensive loss		(111,792	)		(155,150	)
Comprehensive income		279,102			158,761
Less: comprehensive income attributable to noncontrolling interests		(609	)		(2,333	)
Comprehensive income attributable to Yahoo! Inc.	$	278,493		$	156,428

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

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YAHOO! INC.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

	Three Months Ended
	March 31, 2013			March 31, 2014
	(Unaudited, in thousands)
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
Net income	$	390,894		$	313,911
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation		143,864			123,185
Amortization of intangible assets		18,410			34,349
Accretion of convertible notes discount		—			14,666
Stock-based compensation expense, net		44,605			109,181
Restructuring charges		547			—
Loss from sales of investments, assets, and other, net		11,905			3,550
Earnings in equity interests		(217,588	)		(301,402	)
Dividend income related to Alibaba Group Preference Shares		(20,251	)		—
Tax benefits from stock-based awards		9,537			57,667
Excess tax benefits from stock-based awards		(12,807	)		(59,556	)
Deferred income taxes		(20,158	)		14,488
Dividends received from equity investees		12,000			—
Changes in assets and liabilities, net of effects of acquisitions:
Accounts receivable		57,853			98,404
Prepaid expenses and other		19,707			(9,211	)
Accounts payable		(71,135	)		19,492
Accrued expenses and other liabilities		(123,472	)		(240,175	)
Deferred revenue		(25,229	)		(39,488	)
Net cash provided by operating activities		218,682			139,061
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
Acquisition of property and equipment, net		(69,581	)		(84,655	)
Purchases of marketable securities		(1,481,293	)		(912,097	)
Proceeds from sales of marketable securities		424,347			168,926
Proceeds from maturities of marketable securities		183,100			281,662
Acquisitions, net of cash acquired		(10,147	)		(21,661	)
Purchases of intangible assets		(1,128	)		(1,190	)
Proceeds from settlement of derivative hedge contracts		4,100			2,801
Payments for settlement of derivative hedge contracts		—			(600	)
Equity investments		—			(10,399	)
Other investing activities, net		(278	)		(566	)
Net cash used in investing activities		(950,880	)		(577,779	)
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
Proceeds from issuance of common stock, net		61,108			78,977
Repurchases of common stock		(775,075	)		(449,578	)
Excess tax benefits from stock-based awards		12,807			59,556
Tax withholdings related to net share settlements of restricted stock units		(43,689	)		(125,403	)
Other financing activities, net		(1,405	)		(3,093	)
Net cash used in financing activities		(746,254	)		(439,541	)
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents		(14,693	)		(1,315	)
Net change in cash and cash equivalents		(1,493,145	)		(879,574	)
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period		2,667,778			2,077,590
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period	$	1,174,633		$	1,198,016

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

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YAHOO! INC.

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

(unaudited)

Note 1 THE COMPANY AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

The Company. Yahoo! Inc., together with its consolidated subsidiaries (“Yahoo” or the “Company”) is focused on making the world’s daily habits inspiring and entertaining. By creating highly personalized experiences for its users, the Company keeps people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the world. The Company creates value for advertisers with a streamlined, simplified advertising technology stack that leverages Yahoo’s data, reach and analytics to connect advertisers with their target audiences. For advertisers, the opportunity to be a part of users’ daily habits across products and platforms is a powerful tool to engage audiences and build brand loyalty.

Advertisers can build their businesses through advertising to targeted audiences on the Company’s online properties and services, or through a distribution network of third party entities (“Affiliates”) who integrate the Company’s advertising offerings into their Websites or other offerings. The Company manages and measures its business geographically, principally in the Americas, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) and Asia Pacific.

Basis of Presentation. The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Yahoo! Inc. and its majority-owned or otherwise controlled subsidiaries. All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated. Investments in entities in which the Company can exercise significant influence, but does not own a majority equity interest or otherwise control, are accounted for using the equity method and are included as investments in equity interests on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. The Company has included the results of operations of acquired companies from the date of the acquisition. Certain prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current period presentation.

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial statements reflect all adjustments, consisting of only normal recurring items, which, in the opinion of management, are necessary for a fair statement of the results of operations for the periods shown. The results of operations for such periods are not necessarily indicative of the results expected for the full year or for any future periods.

The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) in the United States (“U.S.”) requires management to make estimates, judgments, and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenue, and expenses and the related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. On an ongoing basis, the Company evaluates its estimates, including those related to revenue, the useful lives of long-lived assets including property and equipment and intangible assets, investment fair values, stock-based compensation, goodwill, income taxes, contingencies, and restructuring charges. The Company bases its estimates of the carrying value of certain assets and liabilities on historical experience and on various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, when these carrying values are not readily available from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

These condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and related notes included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP have been condensed or omitted. The condensed consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2013 was derived from the Company’s audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2013, but does not include all disclosures required by U.S. GAAP. However, the Company believes the disclosures are adequate to make the information presented not misleading.

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Note 2 INVESTMENTS AND FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS

The following tables summarize the investments in available-for-sale securities (in thousands):

	December 31, 2013
	Gross Amortized Costs		Gross Unrealized Gains		Gross Unrealized Losses			Estimated Fair Value
Government and agency securities	$	538,397	$	65	$	(101	)	$	538,361
Corporate debt securities, commercial paper, and bank certificates of deposit		2,380,134		2,525		(1,216	)		2,381,443
Corporate equity securities		230		153		—			383
Total investments in available-for-sale securities	$	2,918,761	$	2,743	$	(1,317	)	$	2,920,187

	March 31, 2014
	Gross Amortized Costs		Gross Unrealized Gains		Gross Unrealized Losses			Estimated Fair Value
Government and agency securities	$	566,470	$	335	$	(188	)	$	566,617
Corporate debt securities, commercial paper, and bank certificates of deposit		2,805,485		2,512		(1,301	)		2,806,696
Corporate equity securities		230		249		—			479
Total investments in available-for-sale securities	$	3,372,185	$	3,096	$	(1,489	)	$	3,373,792

	December 31, 2013		March 31, 2014
Reported as:
Short-term marketable securities	$	1,330,304	$	1,741,494
Long-term marketable securities		1,589,500		1,631,819
Other assets		383		479
Total	$	2,920,187	$	3,373,792

Short-term, highly liquid investments included in cash and cash equivalents on the condensed consolidated balance sheets are not included in the table above as the gross unrealized gains and losses were immaterial as of December 31, 2013 and March 31, 2014 as the carrying value approximates fair value because of the short maturity of those instruments. Realized gains and losses from sales of marketable securities were not material for both the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014.

The contractual maturities of available-for-sale marketable securities were as follows (in thousands):

	December 31, 2013		March 31, 2014
Due within one year	$	1,330,304	$	1,741,494
Due after one year through five years		1,589,500		1,631,819
Total available-for-sale marketable securities	$	2,919,804	$	3,373,313

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The following tables show all investments in an unrealized loss position for which an other-than-temporary impairment has not been recognized and the related gross unrealized losses and fair value, aggregated by investment category and length of time that individual securities have been in a continuous unrealized loss position (in thousands):

	December 31, 2013
	Less than 12 Months					12 Months or Longer					Total
	Fair Value		Unrealized Loss			Fair Value		Unrealized Loss			Fair Value		Unrealized Loss
Government and agency securities	$	263,514	$	(101	)	$	—	$	—		$	263,514	$	(101	)
Corporate debt securities, commercial paper, and bank certificates of deposit		696,950		(1,214	)		3,833		(2	)		700,783		(1,216	)
Total investments in available-for-sale securities	$	960,464	$	(1,315	)	$	3,833	$	(2	)	$	964,297	$	(1,317	)

	March 31, 2014
	Less than 12 Months					12 Months or Longer					Total
	Fair Value		Unrealized Loss			Fair Value		Unrealized Loss			Fair Value		Unrealized Loss
Government and agency securities	$	138,841	$	(181	)	$	18,762	$	(7	)	$	157,603	$	(188	)
Corporate debt securities, commercial paper, and bank certificates of deposit		852,227		(1,141	)		37,090		(160	)		889,317		(1,301	)
Total investments in available-for-sale securities	$	991,068	$	(1,322	)	$	55,852	$	(167	)	$	1,046,920	$	(1,489	)

The Company’s investment portfolio consists of liquid high-quality fixed income government, agency and corporate debt securities, money market funds, and time deposits with financial institutions. Investments in both fixed rate and floating rate interest earning instruments carry a degree of interest rate risk. Fixed rate securities may have their fair value adversely impacted due to a rise in interest rates, while floating rate securities may produce less income than expected if interest rates fall. Fixed income securities may have their fair value adversely impacted due to a deterioration of the credit quality of the issuer. The longer the term of the securities, the more susceptible they are to changes in market rates. Investments are reviewed periodically to identify possible other-than-temporary impairment. The Company has no current requirement or intent to sell the securities in an unrealized loss position. The Company expects to recover up to (or beyond) the initial cost of investment for securities held.

The following table sets forth the financial assets and liabilities, measured at fair value, by level within the fair value hierarchy as of December 31, 2013 (in thousands):

	Fair Value Measurements at Reporting Date Using
Assets	Level 1		Level 2			Total
Money market funds(1)	$	936,438	$	—		$	936,438
Available-for-sale securities:
Government and agency securities(1)		—		876,197			876,197
Commercial paper and bank certificates of deposit(1)		—		472,080			472,080
Corporate debt securities(1)		—		2,059,159			2,059,159
Time deposits(1)		—		84,443			84,443
Corporate equity securities(2)		370		—			370
Foreign currency derivative contracts(3)		—		214,041			214,041
Financial assets at fair value	$	936,808	$	3,705,920		$	4,642,728
Liabilities
Foreign currency derivative contracts(3)		—		(1,401	)		(1,401	)
Total financial assets and liabilities at fair value	$	936,808	$	3,704,519		$	4,641,327

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The following table sets forth the financial assets and liabilities, measured at fair value, by level within the fair value hierarchy as of March 31, 2014 (in thousands):

	Fair Value Measurements at Reporting Date Using
Assets	Level 1		Level 2			Total
Money market funds(1)	$	392,140	$	—		$	392,140
Available-for-sale securities:
Government and agency securities(1)		—		608,619			608,619
Commercial paper and bank certificates of deposit(1)		—		416,835			416,835
Corporate debt securities(1)		—		2,392,063			2,392,063
Time deposits(1)		—		96,711			96,711
Corporate equity securities(2)		479		—			479
Foreign currency derivative contracts(3)		—		187,775			187,775
Financial assets at fair value	$	392,619	$	3,702,003		$	4,094,622
Liabilities
Foreign currency derivative contracts(3)		—		(1,973	)		(1,973	)
Total financial assets and liabilities at fair value	$	392,619	$	3,700,030		$	4,092,649

⁽¹⁾  The money market funds, government and agency securities, commercial paper and bank certificates of deposit, corporate debt securities, and time deposits are classified as part of either cash and cash equivalents or investments in marketable securities in the condensed consolidated balance sheets.

⁽²⁾  The corporate equity securities are classified as part of other long-term assets in the condensed consolidated balance sheets.

⁽³⁾  Foreign currency derivative contracts are classified as part of either other current assets or other current liabilities in the condensed consolidated balance sheets. The notional amounts of the foreign currency derivative contracts were $1.8 billion, including contracts designated as net investment hedges of $1.3 billion, as of December 31, 2013, and $1.7 billion, including contracts designated as net investment hedges of $1.3 billion, as of March 31, 2014.

The amount of cash and cash equivalents as of December 31, 2013 and March 31, 2014 included $569 million and $665 million, respectively, in cash deposits.

The fair values of the Company’s Level 1 financial assets and liabilities are based on quoted market prices of the identical underlying security. The fair values of the Company’s Level 2 financial assets and liabilities are obtained using quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets; quoted prices for identical or similar assets in markets that are not active; and inputs other than quoted prices, e.g., interest rates and yield curves. The Company utilizes a pricing service to assist in obtaining fair value pricing for the majority of the investment portfolio.

Convertible Senior Notes

In 2013, the Company issued $1.4375 billion aggregate principal amount of 0.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2018 (the “Notes”). The Notes are carried at their original issuance value, net of unamortized debt discount, and are not marked to market each period. The approximate fair value of the Notes as of both December 31, 2013 and March 31, 2014 was $1.1 billion. The fair value of the Notes was estimated on the basis of quoted market prices observable in the market and is considered Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy. See Note 11—“Convertible Notes” for additional information related to the Notes.

Activity between Levels of the Fair Value Hierarchy.During the year ended December 31, 2013 and the three months ended March 31, 2014, the Company did not make any transfers between Level 1 and Level 2 assets or liabilities.

Note 3 CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENT DETAILS

Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income

The components of accumulated other comprehensive income were as follows (in thousands):

	December 31, 2013		March 31, 2014
Unrealized gains on available-for-sale securities, net of tax	$	15,101	$	23,229
Unrealized gains (losses) on cash flow hedges, net of tax		1,412		(960	)
Foreign currency translation, net of tax		301,876		140,970
Accumulated other comprehensive income	$	318,389	$	163,239

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Noncontrolling Interests

Noncontrolling interests were as follows (in thousands):

	December 31, 2013		March 31, 2014
Beginning noncontrolling interests	$	45,403	$	55,688
Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests		10,285		2,333
Ending noncontrolling interests	$	55,688	$	58,021

Other Income (Expense), Net

Other income, net was as follows (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended
	March 31, 2013			March 31, 2014
Interest, dividend and investment income	$	25,918		$	5,437
Interest expense		(2,273	)		(17,081	)
Other expense, net		(6,573	)		(1,809	)
Total other income (expense), net	$	17,072		$	(13,453	)

Interest, dividend and investment income consists of income earned from cash in bank accounts, investments made in marketable securities and money market funds, and dividend income on the Alibaba Group Preference Shares.

Interest expense is related to the Notes and capital lease obligations for buildings and data centers.

Other expense, net consists of gains and losses from sales or impairments of marketable securities and/or investments in privately-held companies, foreign exchange gains and losses due to re-measurement of monetary assets and liabilities denominated in non-functional currencies, and unrealized and realized foreign currency transaction gains and losses, including gains and losses related to balance sheet hedges.

Reclassifications Out of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income

Reclassifications out of accumulated other comprehensive income for the three months ended March 31, 2013 were as follows (in thousands):

	Amount Reclassified from Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income			Affected Line Item in the Statement of Income
Realized gains on available-for-sale securities, net of tax	$	(37	)	Other income, net
Total reclassifications for the period	$	(37	)

Reclassifications out of accumulated other comprehensive income for the three months ended March 31, 2014 were as follows (in thousands):

	Amount Reclassified from Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income			Affected Line Item in the Statement of Income
Realized gains on cash flow hedges, net of tax	$	(454	)	Revenue
Realized gains on available-for-sale securities, net of tax		(12	)	Other income, net
Total reclassifications for the period	$	(466	)

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Note 4 ACQUISITIONS

During the three months ended March 31, 2013, the Company acquired three companies, all of which were accounted for as business combinations. The total purchase price for these acquisitions was $10 million and consisted entirely of cash consideration, primarily allocated to goodwill. Goodwill represents the excess of the purchase price over the fair value of the net tangible and intangible assets acquired and is not deductible for tax purposes.

During the three months ended March 31, 2014, the Company acquired five companies, all of which were accounted for as business combinations. The total purchase price for these acquisitions was $23 million less cash acquired of $1 million, which resulted in a net cash outlay of $22 million. The purchase price for the assets and liabilities assumed was allocated based on their estimated fair values as follows: $9 million to amortizable intangibles; $1 million to cash acquired; $3 million to assumed liabilities; and the remainder of $16 million to goodwill.

The Company’s business combinations completed during the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014 did not have a material impact on the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements.

Note 5 GOODWILL

The Company’s goodwill balance was $4.7 billion as of both December 31, 2013 and March 31, 2014, of which $3.8 billion was recorded in the Americas segment, $0.6 billion in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) segment, and $0.3 billion in the Asia Pacific segment. The increase in the carrying amount of goodwill of $20 million reflected on the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheets during the three months ended March 31, 2014 was primarily due to foreign currency translation gains of $4 million and additions to goodwill of $16 million related to acquisitions made during the three months ended March 31, 2014.

Note 6 INTANGIBLE ASSETS, NET

The following table summarizes the Company’s intangible assets, net (in thousands):

	December 31, 2013		March 31, 2014
	Net		Gross Carrying Amount		Accumulated Amortization(*)			Net
Customer, affiliate, and advertiser related relationships	$	205,818	$	291,972	$	(100,984	)	$	190,988
Developed technology and patents		140,499		257,878		(123,699	)		134,179
Trade names, trademarks, and domain names		71,491		105,978		(37,790	)		68,188
Total intangible assets, net	$	417,808	$	655,828	$	(262,473	)	$	393,355

^(*)  Cumulative foreign currency translation adjustments, reflecting movement in the currencies of the underlying entities increased total intangible assets by approximately $19 million as of March 31, 2014.

For the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014, the Company recognized amortization expense for intangible assets of $18 million and $34 million, respectively, including $11 million and $16 million in cost of revenue—other for the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively. Based on the current amount of intangibles subject to amortization, the estimated amortization expense for the remainder of 2014 and each of the succeeding years is as follows: nine months ending December 31, 2014: $86 million; 2015: $93 million; 2016: $68 million; 2017: $60 million; 2018: $49 million; and cumulatively thereafter: $20 million.

Note 7 BASIC AND DILUTED NET INCOME ATTRIBUTABLE TO YAHOO! INC. COMMON STOCKHOLDERS PER SHARE

Basic and diluted net income attributable to Yahoo! Inc. common stockholders per share is computed using the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period, excluding net income attributable to participating securities (restricted stock units granted under the 1996 Directors’ Stock Plan (the “Directors’ Plan”)). Diluted net income per share is computed using the weighted average number of common shares and, if dilutive, potential common shares outstanding during the period. Potential common shares are calculated using the treasury stock method and consist of unvested restricted stock and shares underlying unvested restricted stock units, the incremental common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options, and shares to be purchased under the 1996 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “Employee Stock Purchase Plan”). The Company calculates potential tax windfalls and shortfalls by including the impact of pro forma deferred tax assets.

The Company takes into account the effect on consolidated net income per share of dilutive securities of entities in which the Company holds equity interests that are accounted for using the equity method.

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Potentially dilutive securities representing approximately 24 million and 2 million shares of common stock for the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively were excluded from the computation of diluted earnings per share for these periods because their effect would have been anti-dilutive.

The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted net income per share (in thousands, except per share amounts):

	Three Months Ended
	March 31, 2013			March 31, 2014
Basic:
Numerator:
Net income attributable to Yahoo! Inc.	$	390,285		$	311,578
Less: Net income allocated to participating securities		(11	)		(3	)
Net income attributable to Yahoo! Inc. common stockholders—basic	$	390,274		$	311,575
Denominator:
Weighted average common shares		1,094,170			1,009,890
Net income attributable to Yahoo! Inc. common stockholders per share—basic	$	0.36		$	0.31
Diluted:
Numerator:
Net income attributable to Yahoo! Inc.	$	390,285		$	311,578
Less: Net income allocated to participating securities		(11	)		(3	)
Less: Effect of dilutive securities issued by equity investees		(2,119	)		(12,365	)
Net income attributable to Yahoo! Inc. common stockholders—diluted	$	388,155		$	299,210
Denominator:
Denominator for basic calculation		1,094,170			1,009,890
Weighted average effect of Yahoo! Inc. dilutive securities:
Restricted stock units		11,427			15,670
Stock options and employee stock purchase plan		2,498			5,860
Denominator for diluted calculation		1,108,095			1,031,420
Net income attributable to Yahoo! Inc. common stockholders per share—diluted	$	0.35		$	0.29

Note 8 INVESTMENTS IN EQUITY INTERESTS

The following table summarizes the Company’s investments in equity interests (dollars in thousands):

	December 31, 2013		Percent Ownership			March 31, 2014		Percent Ownership
Alibaba Group	$	1,018,126		24	%	$	1,360,173		24	%
Yahoo Japan		2,399,590		35	%		2,346,867		36	%
Other		8,631		19	%		21,783		17	%
Total	$	3,426,347				$	3,728,823

Equity Investment in Alibaba Group. The investment in Alibaba Group Holding Limited (“Alibaba Group”) is being accounted for using the equity method, and the total investment, including net tangible assets, identifiable intangible assets, and goodwill, is classified as part of the investments in equity interests balance on the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheets. The Company’s accounting policy is to record its share of the results of Alibaba Group, and any related amortization expense and related tax impact, one quarter in arrears within earnings in equity interests in the condensed consolidated statements of income. As of March 31, 2014, the excess of carrying value of the Company’s investment in Alibaba Group and the Company’s proportionate share of the net assets of Alibaba Group is largely attributable to goodwill.

Initial Repurchase by Alibaba Group. On September 18, 2012 (the “Repurchase Closing Date”), Alibaba Group repurchased 523 million of the 1,047 million ordinary shares of Alibaba Group (the “Shares”) owned by the Company (the “Initial Repurchase”). The Initial Repurchase was made pursuant to the terms of the Share Repurchase and Preference Share Sale Agreement entered into by Yahoo! Inc., Alibaba Group and Yahoo! Hong Kong Holdings Limited, a Hong Kong corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of Yahoo! Inc. (“YHK”), on May 20, 2012 (as amended on September 11, 2012 and October 14, 2013, the “Repurchase Agreement”). Yahoo received $13.54 per Share, or approximately $7.1 billion in total consideration, for 523 million Shares sold to Alibaba Group. Approximately $6.3 billion of the consideration was received in cash and $800 million was received in Alibaba Group Preference Shares, which Alibaba Group redeemed on May 16, 2013. The Initial Repurchase resulted in a pre-tax gain of approximately $4.6 billion for the year ended December 31, 2012.

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The Repurchase Agreement provided that at the time Alibaba Group completes an initial public offering meeting certain specified criteria (a “Qualified IPO”), Yahoo and YHK would sell, at Alibaba Group’s election (either directly to Alibaba Group or in the Qualified IPO), up to 261.5 million of their remaining Shares. This amount was subsequently reduced to 208.0 million by an amendment to the Repurchase Agreement dated as of October 14, 2013. If Shares are sold back to Alibaba Group in the Qualified IPO, the purchase price per Share will be equal to the per share price in the Qualified IPO less specified fees and underwriter discounts.

On the Repurchase Closing Date, the Company and Alibaba Group entered into an amendment of their existing Technology and Intellectual Property License Agreement (the “TIPLA”) pursuant to which Alibaba Group made an initial payment to the Company of $550 million in satisfaction of certain future royalty payments under the existing TIPLA. The Company will recognize this revenue over the remaining four-year term of the TIPLA. For both the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014, the Company recognized approximately $34 million in revenue related to the TIPLA.

Alibaba Group will continue making royalty payments until the earlier of the fourth anniversary of the effective date of the amendment and a Qualified IPO. Pursuant to the terms of the TIPLA, the Company also recognized royalty revenue of approximately $35 million and $34 million for the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively.

The following table presents Alibaba Group’s U.S. GAAP financial information, as derived from the Alibaba Group financial statements (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended
	December 31,    2012		December 31,   2013
Operating data:
Revenue	$	1,840,450	$	3,057,728
Gross profit(*)	$	1,377,871	$	2,377,427
Income from operations(*)	$	803,087	$	1,435,687
Net income	$	649,977	$	1,363,761
Net income attributable to Alibaba Group	$	642,173	$	1,348,932

	September 30,   2013		December 31,   2013
Balance sheet data:
Current assets	$	7,994,731	$	11,452,808
Long-term assets	$	5,959,835	$	6,106,707
Current liabilities	$	4,838,510	$	6,615,917
Long-term liabilities	$	5,319,113	$	5,325,255
Convertible preferred shares	$	1,688,889	$	1,699,494
Noncontrolling interests	$	92,127	$	165,983

(*) Certain prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current period presentation with no effect on previously reported net income or stockholders’ equity.

Equity Investment in Yahoo Japan. The investment in Yahoo Japan Corporation (“Yahoo Japan”) is being accounted for using the equity method and the total investment, including net tangible assets, identifiable intangible assets, and goodwill, is classified as part of the investments in equity interests balance on the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheets. The Company records its share of the results of Yahoo Japan, and any related amortization expense, one quarter in arrears within earnings in equity interests in the condensed consolidated statements of income.

The Company makes adjustments to the earnings in equity interests line in the condensed consolidated statements of income for any differences between U.S. GAAP and accounting principles generally accepted in Japan (“Japanese GAAP”), the standards by which Yahoo Japan’s financial statements are prepared.

The fair value of the Company’s ownership interest in the common stock of Yahoo Japan, based on the quoted stock price, was approximately $10 billion as of March 31, 2014.

In the first quarter of 2014, the Company sold data center assets and assigned a data center lease to Yahoo Japan for cash proceeds of $11 million and recorded a net gain of approximately $5 million.

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The following tables present summarized financial information derived from Yahoo Japan’s consolidated financial statements, which are prepared on the basis of Japanese GAAP. The Company has made adjustments to the Yahoo Japan financial information to address differences between Japanese GAAP and U.S. GAAP that materially impact the summarized financial information below. Due to these adjustments, the Yahoo Japan summarized financial information presented below is not materially different than such information presented on the basis of U.S. GAAP.

	Three Months Ended
	December 31,    2012		December 31,   2013
	(In thousands)
Operating data:
Revenue	$	1,195,869	$	1,031,656
Gross profit	$	981,062	$	843,926
Income from operations	$	614,492	$	489,442
Net income	$	343,414	$	307,112
Net income attributable to Yahoo Japan	$	340,550	$	304,345

	September 30,   2013		December 31,   2013
	(In thousands)
Balance sheet data:
Current assets	$	6,318,156	$	5,840,384
Long-term assets	$	1,728,912	$	1,702,207
Current liabilities	$	1,992,508	$	1,784,072
Long-term liabilities	$	56,762	$	53,186
Noncontrolling interests	$	74,754	$	72,484

Under technology and trademark license and other commercial arrangements with Yahoo Japan, the Company records revenue from Yahoo Japan based on a percentage of advertising revenue earned by Yahoo Japan. The Company recorded revenue from Yahoo Japan of approximately $70 million and $68 million for the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively. As of December 31, 2013 and March 31, 2014, the Company had net receivable balances from Yahoo Japan of approximately $42 million and $47 million, respectively.

Note 9 DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

The Company uses derivative financial instruments, primarily forward contracts, to mitigate risk associated with adverse movements in foreign currency exchange rates.

The Company records all derivatives in the condensed consolidated balance sheets at fair value with assets included in prepaid expenses and other current assets and liabilities included in accrued expenses and other current liabilities. The Company’s accounting treatment for these instruments is based on whether the instruments are designated as a hedging instrument or not designated as a hedging instrument. The effective portions of net investment hedges are recorded in other comprehensive income as a part of the cumulative translation adjustment. The effective portions of cash flow hedges are recorded in accumulated other comprehensive income until the hedged item is recognized in revenue on the condensed consolidated statements of income when the underlying hedged revenue is recognized. The ineffective portions of net investment hedges and cash flow hedges are recorded in other income, net on the Company’s condensed consolidated statements of income. For balance sheet hedges, changes in the fair value are recorded in other income, net on the Company’s condensed consolidated statements of income. For forecasted revenue hedges, changes in the fair value are recorded as a component of revenue in the Company’s condensed consolidated statements of income.

The Company generally enters into master netting arrangements, which are designed to reduce credit risk by permitting net settlement of transactions with the same counterparty. The Company presents its derivative assets and liabilities at their gross fair values on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. The Company is not required to pledge, and is not entitled to receive, cash collateral related to these derivative transactions.

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Designated as Hedging Instruments

Net Investment Hedges.The Company hedges, on an after-tax basis, a portion of its net investment in Yahoo Japan with forward contracts to reduce the risk that its investment in Yahoo Japan will be adversely affected by foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations. The total of the after-tax net investment hedge was less than the Yahoo Japan investment balance as of both December 31, 2013 and March 31, 2014. As such, the net investment hedge was considered to be effective. See Note 18—“Subsequent Events” for additional information.

Cash Flow Hedges. The Company entered into foreign currency forward contracts designated as cash flow hedges of varying maturities through July 31, 2014. The cash flow hedges were considered to be effective as of December 31, 2013 and March 31, 2014. The Company expects all of the forward contracts designated as cash flow hedges to be reclassified to revenue within fiscal year 2014, as it expects to recognize the hedged forecasted revenue related to these contracts by December 31, 2014.

Not Designated as Hedging Instruments

Balance Sheet Hedges.The Company hedges certain of its net recognized foreign currency assets and liabilities with foreign exchange forward contracts to reduce the risk that its earnings and cash flows will be adversely affected by changes in foreign currency exchange rates. These derivative instruments hedge assets and liabilities, including intercompany transactions, which are denominated in foreign currencies.

Forecasted Revenue Hedges. The Company hedges a portion of the forecasted revenue of certain international subsidiaries whose functional currencies are not the U.S dollar. This program attempts to reduce the risk that the Company’s revenue denominated in these currencies will be adversely affected by foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations.

Notional amounts of the Company’s outstanding forward contracts as of December 31, 2013 and March 31, 2014 (in millions):

	December 31, 2013		March 31, 2014
Derivatives designated as hedging instruments:
Net investment hedges	$	1,341	$	1,341
Cash flow hedges	$	56	$	31
Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:
Balance sheet hedges	$	393	$	335
Forecasted revenue hedges	$	—	$	—

Foreign currency forward contracts activity for the three months ended March 31, 2013 (in millions):

	Beginning Fair Value			Settlement			Gain (Loss) Recorded in Other Income, Net		Gain (Loss) Recorded in Other Comprehensive Income			Ending Fair Value
Derivatives designated as hedging instruments:
Net investment hedges	$	3		$	—		$	—	$	270	(*)	$	273
Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:
Balance sheet hedges		(5	)		(4	)		4		—			(5	)

^(*)  This amount does not reflect the tax impact of $101 million recorded during the three months ended March 31, 2013. The $169 million after tax impact of the gain recorded within other comprehensive income was included in accumulated other comprehensive income on the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheets.

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Foreign currency forward contracts activity for the three months ended March 31, 2014 (in millions):

	Beginning Fair Value		Settlement			Gain (Loss) Recorded in Other Income, Net			Gain (Loss) Recorded in Other Comprehensive Income			Gain (Loss) Recorded in Revenue		Ending Fair Value
Derivatives designated as hedging instruments:
Net investment hedges	$	209	$	—		$	—		$	(22	)(1)	$	—	$	187
Cash flow hedges		4		(1	)		(1	)		(2	)(2)		1		1
Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:
Balance sheet hedges		—		(1	)		(1	)		—			—		(2	)
Forecasted revenue hedges		—		—			—			—			—		—

⁽¹⁾  This amount does not reflect the tax impact of $8 million recorded during the three months ended March 31, 2014. The $14 million after tax impact of the gain recorded within other comprehensive income was included in accumulated other comprehensive income on the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheets.

⁽²⁾  This amount does not reflect the tax impact of less than $1 million recorded during the three months ended March 31, 2014. The $1 million after tax impact of the loss was included in accumulated other comprehensive income on the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheets.

Foreign currency forward contracts balance sheet location and ending fair value (in millions):

	Balance Sheet Location	December 31, 2013			March 31, 2014
Derivatives designated as hedging instruments:
Net investment hedges	Asset	$	209		$	187
	Liability	$	—		$	—
Cash flow hedges	Asset	$	4		$	1
	Liability	$	—		$	—
Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:
Balance sheet hedges	Asset	$	1		$	—
	Liability	$	(1	)	$	(2	)
Forecasted revenue hedges	Asset	$	—		$	—
	Liability	$	—		$	—

Note 10 CREDIT AGREEMENT

The Company’s credit agreement (the “Credit Agreement”) with Citibank, N.A. terminates on October 9, 2014. The Credit Agreement, as amended, provides for a $750 million unsecured revolving credit facility, subject to increase of up to $250 million in accordance with its terms. As of March 31, 2014, the Company was in compliance with the financial covenants in the Credit Agreement and no amounts were outstanding.

Note 11 CONVERTIBLE NOTES

0.00% Convertible Senior Notes

As of March 31, 2014, the Company had $1.4 billion principal amount of Notes outstanding. The Notes are senior unsecured obligations of Yahoo, the Notes do not bear regular interest, and the principal amount of the Notes does not accrete. The Notes mature on December 1, 2018, unless previously purchased or converted in accordance with their terms prior to such date. The Company may not redeem Notes prior to maturity. However, holders of the Notes may convert them at certain times and upon the occurrence of certain events in the future, as outlined in the indenture governing the Notes (the “Indenture”). Holders of the Notes who convert in connection with a “make-whole fundamental change,” as defined in the Indenture, may require Yahoo to purchase for cash all or any portion of their Notes at a purchase price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid special interest as defined in the Indenture, if any. The Notes are convertible, subject to certain conditions, into shares of Yahoo common stock at an

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initial conversion rate of 18.7161 shares per $1,000 principal amount of Notes (which is equivalent to an initial conversion price of approximately $53.43 per share), subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of certain events. Upon conversion of the Notes, holders will receive cash, shares of Yahoo’s common stock or a combination thereof, at Yahoo’s election. The Company’s intent is to settle the principal amount of the Notes in cash upon conversion. If the conversion value exceeds the principal amount, the Company would deliver shares of its common stock in respect to the remainder of its conversion obligation in excess of the aggregate principal amount (conversion spread). As of March 31, 2014, none of the conditions allowing holders of the Notes to convert had been met.

The Notes consist of the following (in thousands):

	December 31,   2013			March 31,     2014
Liability component:
Principal	$	1,437,500		$	1,437,500
Less: note discount		(326,915	)		(312,249	)
Net carrying amount	$	1,110,585		$	1,125,251
Equity component(*)	$	305,569		$	305,569

^(*) Recorded on the condensed consolidated balance sheets within additional paid-in capital.

The following table sets forth total interest expense recognized related to the Notes (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended March  31, 2013		Three Months Ended March  31, 2014
Accretion of convertible note discount	$	—	$	14,666

The fair value of the Notes, which was determined based on inputs that are observable in the market (Level 2), and the carrying value of debt instruments (carrying value excludes the equity component of the Notes classified in equity) was as follows (in thousands):

	December 31, 2013				March 31, 2014
	Fair Value		Carrying Value		Fair Value		Carrying Value
Convertible senior notes	$	1,111,473	$	1,110,585	$	1,127,393	$	1,125,251

Note 12 COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

Lease Commitments. The Company leases office space and data centers under operating and capital lease agreements with original lease periods of up to 12 years which expire between 2014 and 2025.

A summary of gross and net lease commitments as of March 31, 2014 was as follows (in millions):

	Gross Operating Lease Commitments		Sublease Income			Net Operating Lease Commitments
Nine months ending December 31, 2014	$	105	$	(9	)	$	96
Years ending December 31,
2015		113		(9	)		104
2016		76		(2	)		74
2017		62		—			62
2018		39		—			39
2019		27		—			27
Due after 5 years		97		—			97
Total gross and net lease commitments	$	519	$	(20	)	$	499

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	Capital Lease Commitment
Nine months ending December 31, 2014	$	11
Years ending December 31,
2015		12
2016		9
2017		9
2018		9
2019		4
Due after 5 years		—
Gross lease commitment	$	54
Less: interest		(13	)
Net lease commitment included in capital lease and other long-term liabilities	$	41

Affiliate Commitments.The Company is obligated to make payments, which represent traffic acquisition costs (“TAC”), to its Affiliates. As of March 31, 2014, these commitments totaled $216 million, of which $10 million will be payable in the remainder of 2014, $205 million will be payable in 2015, and $1 million will be payable in 2016.

Intellectual Property Rights. The Company is committed to make certain payments under various intellectual property arrangements of up to $23 million through 2023.

Other Commitments.In the ordinary course of business, the Company may provide indemnifications of varying scope and terms to customers, vendors, lessors, joint ventures and business partners, purchasers of assets or subsidiaries and other parties with respect to certain matters, including, but not limited to, losses arising out of the Company’s breach of agreements or representations and warranties made by the Company, services to be provided by the Company, intellectual property infringement claims made by third parties or, with respect to the sale, lease, or assignment of assets or a subsidiary, matters related to the Company’s conduct of the business and tax matters prior to the sale. In addition, the Company has entered into indemnification agreements with its directors and certain of its officers that will require the Company, among other things, to indemnify them against certain liabilities that may arise by reason of their status or service as directors or officers. The Company has also agreed to indemnify certain former officers, directors, and employees of acquired companies in connection with the acquisition of such companies. The Company maintains director and officer insurance, which may cover certain liabilities arising from its obligation to indemnify its directors and officers, and former directors and officers of acquired companies, in certain circumstances. It is not possible to determine the aggregate maximum potential loss under these indemnification agreements due to the limited history of prior indemnification claims and the unique facts and circumstances involved in each particular agreement. Such indemnification agreements might not be subject to maximum loss clauses. Historically, the Company has not incurred material costs as a result of obligations under these agreements and it has not accrued any liabilities related to such indemnification obligations in the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements.

As of March 31, 2014, the Company did not have any relationships with unconsolidated entities or financial partnerships, such as entities often referred to as structured finance or special purpose entities, which would have been established for the purpose of facilitating off-balance sheet arrangements or other contractually narrow or limited purposes. Accordingly, the Company is not exposed to any financing, liquidity, market, or credit risk that could arise if the Company had engaged in such relationships. In addition, the Company identified no variable interests currently held in entities for which it is the primary beneficiary.

See Note 17 — “Search Agreement with Microsoft Corporation” for a description of the Company’s Search and Advertising Services and Sales Agreement (the “Search Agreement”) and License Agreement with Microsoft Corporation (“Microsoft”).

Legal Contingencies

Intellectual Property and General Matters. From time to time, third parties assert patent infringement claims against the Company. Currently, the Company is engaged in lawsuits regarding patent issues and has been notified of other potential patent disputes. In addition, from time to time, the Company is subject to other legal proceedings and claims in the ordinary course of business, including claims of alleged infringement of trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and other intellectual property rights, claims related to employment matters, and a variety of other claims, including claims alleging defamation, invasion of privacy, or similar claims arising in connection with the Company’s e-mail, message boards, photo and video sites, auction sites, shopping services, and other communications and community features.

Stockholder and Securities Matters. Since May 31, 2011, several related stockholder derivative suits were filed in the Santa Clara County Superior Court (“California Derivative Litigation”) and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (“Federal Derivative Litigation”) purportedly on behalf of the Company against certain officers and directors of the Company and

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third parties. The California Derivative Litigation was filed by plaintiffs Cinotto, Lassoff, Zucker, and Koo, and consolidated under the captionIn re Yahoo! Inc. Derivative Shareholder Litigation on June 24, 2011 and September 12, 2011. The Federal Derivative Litigation was filed by plaintiffs Salzman, Tawila, and Iron Workers Mid-South Pension Fund and consolidated under the captionIn re Yahoo! Inc. Shareholder Derivative Litigation on October 3, 2011. The plaintiffs allege breaches of fiduciary duties, corporate waste, mismanagement, abuse of control, unjust enrichment, misappropriation of corporate assets, or contribution and seek damages, equitable relief, disgorgement and corporate governance changes in connection with Alibaba Group’s restructuring of its subsidiary Alipay.com Co., Ltd. (“Alipay”) and related disclosures. On June 7, 2012, the courts approved stipulations staying the California Derivative Litigation pending resolution of the Federal Derivative Litigation, and deferring the Federal Derivative Litigation pending a ruling on the motion to dismiss filed by the defendants in the related stockholder class actions, which are discussed below. On December 16, 2013, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted the Company’s motion to stay the Federal Derivative Litigation pending resolution of the appeal filed by the plaintiffs in the related stockholder class actions.

Since June 6, 2011, two purported stockholder class actions were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the Company and certain officers and directors of the Company by plaintiffs Bonato and the Twin Cities Pipe Trades Pension Trust. In October 2011, the District Court consolidated the two actions under the captionIn re Yahoo! Inc. Securities Litigationand appointed the Pension Trust Fund for Operating Engineers as lead plaintiff. In a consolidated amended complaint filed December 15, 2011, the lead plaintiff purports to represent a class of investors who purchased the Company’s common stock between April 19, 2011 and July 29, 2011, and alleges that during that class period, defendants issued statements that were materially false or misleading because they did not disclose information relating to Alibaba Group’s restructuring of Alipay. The complaint purports to assert claims for relief for violation of Section 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and for violation of Rule 10b-5 thereunder, and seeks unspecified damages, injunctive and equitable relief, fees, and costs. On August 10, 2012, the court granted defendants’ motion to dismiss the consolidated amended complaint. Plaintiffs have appealed.

On July 30, 2013, a stockholder derivative action captionedZucker v. Loeb, et al. was filed in the Supreme Court of New York for the County of New York against current and former members of the Company’s board of directors (the “Board”), Third Point LLC, and entities related to Third Point LLC. The complaint filed by the plaintiff asserts claims for alleged breach of fiduciary duty, waste, and unjust enrichment in connection with the Company’s repurchase of 40 million shares of Company common stock beneficially owned by Third Point LLC. The complaint seeks a judgment declaring that the defendants breached their fiduciary duties, an award of restitution, and corporate governance changes. The Company has filed a motion to dismiss the action.

On March 14, 2014, a shareholder derivative action captioned Hughes Trust v. de Castro, et al. was filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery purportedly on behalf of Yahoo against current and former members of the Board and our former chief operating officer, Henrique de Castro. The plaintiff alleges that the directors who approved Mr. de Castro’s employment agreement in 2012 wasted corporate assets and breached their fiduciary duties by failing to adequately inform themselves about how much compensation Mr. de Castro would be entitled to receive. The plaintiff further alleges that the directors failed to provide adequate disclosure regarding Mr. de Castro’s compensation. The plaintiff asserts a claim against Mr. de Castro for unjust enrichment. Plaintiff seeks unspecified damages and restitution in favor of Yahoo, an order directing Yahoo to reform its corporate governance and internal procedures, and attorneys’ fees and costs. The Company intends to file a motion to dismiss the action.

Mexico Matter. On November 16, 2011, plaintiffs Worldwide Directories, S.A. de C.V. (“WWD”), and Ideas Interactivas, S.A. de C.V. (“Ideas”) filed an action in the 49th Civil Court of Mexico against the Company, Yahoo! de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. (“Yahoo! Mexico”), Yahoo International Subsidiary Holdings, Inc., and Yahoo Hispanic Americas LLC. The complaint alleged claims of breach of contract, breach of promise, and lost profits in connection with various commercial contracts entered into among the parties between 2002 and 2004, relating to a business listings service, and alleged total damages of approximately $2.75 billion. On December 7, 2011, Yahoo! Mexico filed a counterclaim against WWD for payments of approximately $2.6 million owed to Yahoo! Mexico for services rendered. On April 10, 2012, plaintiffs withdrew their claim filed against Yahoo International Subsidiary Holdings, Inc. and Yahoo Hispanic Americas LLC.

On November 28, 2012, the 49th Civil Court of Mexico entered a non-final judgment against the Company and Yahoo! Mexico in the amount of USD $2.75 billion and a non-final judgment in favor of Yahoo! Mexico on its counterclaim against WWD in the amount of $2.6 million. The judgment against the Company and Yahoo! Mexico purported to leave open for determination in future proceedings certain other alleged damages that were not quantified in the judgment. The judgment was issued by a law clerk to the trial court judge who presided over the entire case during the trial court proceedings but stepped down from his position shortly before the judgment was entered.

On December 12, 2012 and December 13, 2012, respectively, Yahoo! Mexico and the Company appealed the judgment to a three-magistrate panel of the Superior Court of Justice for the Federal District (the “Superior Court”). On May 15, 2013, the Superior Court reversed the judgment, overturned all monetary awards against the Company and reduced the monetary award against Yahoo! Mexico to $172,500. The Superior Court affirmed the award of $2.6 million in favor of Yahoo! Mexico on its counterclaim.

Plaintiffs have appealed the Superior Court’s decision to the Mexican Federal Civil Collegiate Court for the First Circuit (“Civil Collegiate Court”). The Company has appealed the Superior Court’s decision not to award it statutory costs in the underlying

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proceeding. Yahoo! Mexico has appealed the Superior Court’s award of $172,500, the Superior Court’s decision not to award it additional moneys beyond the $2.6 million award on its counterclaims, and the Superior Court’s decision not to award it statutory costs. In the pending appeals, review is limited to whether the Superior Court’s decision is unconstitutional, unlawful, or both.

The Company believes the plaintiffs’ claims are without legal or factual merit. First, the plaintiffs’ claims are based on agreements that were either terminated by agreement with releases or had expired or terminated in accordance with their terms, a non-binding letter of intent pursuant to which no definitive agreements were ever entered into by the parties, and correspondence that did not constitute agreements. Second, the loss of profits of the type claimed by plaintiffs are not awardable under Mexico law because they were not a direct and immediate consequence of a breach of contract. Of the $2.75 billion in total damages alleged by plaintiffs, more than $2.4 billion were for loss of profits. Third, the plaintiffs’ alleged damages and loss of profits were further precluded by the agreements at issue through, among other things, contractual and legal limitations of liability. Fourth, the plaintiffs’ pleadings in the complaint, as well as documentary evidence filed by the plaintiffs in support of their allegations, were generally deficient to support or establish plaintiffs’ claims. Fifth, the decision failed to consider substantially all of the defenses asserted by the Company and Yahoo! Mexico. Finally, the Company believes that the law clerk who entered the judgment lacked the requisite authority to issue the judgment.

The Company has not recorded an accrual for the judgment, which was reversed, as explained above. The Company cannot assure the ultimate outcome of the pending or further appeals.

The Company has determined, based on current knowledge, that the amount or range of reasonably possible losses, including reasonably possible losses in excess of amounts already accrued, is not reasonably estimable with respect to certain matters described above. The Company has also determined, based on current knowledge, that the aggregate amount or range of losses that are estimable with respect to the Company’s legal proceedings, including the matters described above other than the Mexico matter, would not have a material adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows. Amounts accrued as of December 31, 2013 and March 31, 2014 were not material. The ultimate outcome of legal proceedings involves judgments, estimates and inherent uncertainties, and cannot be predicted with certainty. In the event of a determination adverse to Yahoo, its subsidiaries, directors, or officers in these matters, the Company may incur substantial monetary liability, and be required to change its business practices. Either of these events could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial position, results of operations, or cash flows. The Company may also incur substantial legal fees, which are expensed as incurred, in defending against these claims.

Note 13 STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY AND EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

Employee Stock Purchase Plan.As of March 31, 2014, there was $1 million of unamortized stock-based compensation expense related to the Company’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan, which will be recognized over a weighted average period of 0.1 years.

Stock Options. The Company’s 1995 Stock Plan, the Directors’ Plan, and stock-based awards assumed through acquisitions (including stock-based commitments related to continued service of acquired employees, such as the holdback by Yahoo of shares of Yahoo common stock issued to Tumblr’s founder in connection with the Company’s acquisition of Tumblr in June 2013) are collectively referred to as the “Plans.” Stock option activity under the Company’s Plans for the three months ended March 31, 2014 is summarized as follows (in thousands, except per share amounts):

	Shares			Weighted Average Exercise Price Per Share
Outstanding at December 31, 2013		20,968		$	20.43
Options granted		10		$	35.90
Options assumed in acquisitions		—		$	—
Options exercised(*)		(2,478	)	$	38.43
Options expired		(651	)	$	20.01
Options cancelled/forfeited		(1,967	)	$	18.67
Outstanding at March 31, 2014		15,882		$	17.87

^(*)  The Company issued new shares to satisfy stock option exercises.

As of March 31, 2014, there was $36 million of unamortized stock-based compensation expense related to unvested stock options, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 1.0 year.

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The fair value of option grants is determined using the Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following weighted average assumptions:

	Stock Options						Purchase Plan(*)
	Three Months Ended						Three Months Ended
	March 31, 2013			March 31, 2014			March 31, 2013			March 31, 2014
Expected dividend yield		0.0	%		0.0	%		0.0	%		0.0	%
Risk-free interest rate		0.6	%		1.5	%		0.1	%		0.1	%
Expected volatility		30.9	%		36.2	%		29.5	%		38.7	%
Expected life (in years)		4.00			4.00			0.24			0.24

^(*)  Assumptions for the Employee Stock Purchase Plan relate to the annual average of the enrollment periods. Enrollment is permitted in February, May, August, and November of each year.

Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Units. Restricted stock and restricted stock unit activity under the Plans for the three months ended March 31, 2014 is summarized as follows (in thousands, except per share amounts):

	Shares			Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value Per Share
Awarded and unvested at December 31, 2013(*)		49,584		$	24.20
Granted(*)		7,332		$	38.72
Assumed in acquisitions		277		$	40.85
Vested		(8,512	)	$	18.83
Forfeited		(2,144	)	$	20.63
Awarded and unvested at March 31, 2014(*)		46,537		$	27.73

^(*)  Includes the maximum number of shares issuable under the Company’s performance-based restricted stock unit awards (including future-year tranches for which goals have not been set).

As of March 31, 2014, there was $750 million of unamortized stock-based compensation expense related to unvested restricted stock awards and restricted stock units, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 2.8 years.

During the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014, 5.6 million shares and 8.5 million shares, respectively, that were subject to previously granted restricted stock awards and restricted stock units vested. These vested restricted stock awards and restricted stock units were net share settled. During the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014, the Company withheld 2.1 million shares and 3.3 million shares, respectively, based upon the Company’s closing stock price on the vesting date to settle the employees’ minimum statutory obligation for the applicable income and other employment taxes. The Company then remitted cash to the appropriate taxing authorities.

Total payments for the employees’ tax obligations to the relevant taxing authorities were $44 million and $125 million, respectively, for the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014 and are reflected as a financing activity within the condensed consolidated statements of cash flows. The payments were used for tax withholdings related to the net share settlements of restricted stock units and tax withholding related to the reacquisition of shares of restricted stock. The payments had the effect of share repurchases by the Company as they reduced the number of shares that would have otherwise been issued on the vesting date and were recorded as a reduction of additional paid-in capital.

Performance-Based Executive Incentive Equity Awards.

Performance Options.The financial performance stock options awarded by the Company in November 2012 to Ms. Mayer and Mr. Goldman include multiple performance periods. The number of stock options that ultimately vest for each performance period will range from 0 percent to 100 percent of the target amount for such period stated in each executive’s award agreement based on the Company’s performance relative to goals. The financial performance goals are established at the beginning of each performance period and the portion (or “tranche”) of the award related to each performance period is treated as a separate grant for accounting purposes. In February 2014, the Compensation and Leadership Development Committee of the Board (the “Compensation Committee”) established performance goals under these stock options for the 2014 performance year. The 2014 financial performance metrics (and their weightings) under the performance options are GAAP revenue (70 percent) and Adjusted EBITDA (30 percent). The grant date fair value of the 2014 tranche of the November 2012 financial performance stock options was $38 million, and is being recognized over the twelve month service period. The Company began recording stock-based compensation expense for this tranche in February 2014, when the financial performance goals were established.

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Performance RSUs.In February 2014, the Compensation Committee approved additional annual financial performance-based restricted stock unit (“RSU”) awards to Ms. Mayer and other senior officers, and established the 2014 annual performance goals for these awards as well as for the similar performance-based RSUs granted in February 2013. The 2013 and 2014 performance-based RSU awards are generally eligible to vest in equal annual tranches over four years (three years for Ms. Mayer) based on the Company’s attainment of annual financial performance goals as well as the executive’s continued employment through each vesting date. The number of shares that ultimately vest each year will range from 0 percent to 200 percent of the annual target amount, based on the Company’s performance. Annual financial performance metrics and goals are established for these awards at the beginning of each year and the tranche of each award related to that year’s performance goal is treated as a separate annual grant for accounting purposes. The 2014 financial performance metrics (and their weightings) established for the performance RSUs are: GAAP revenue (70 percent) and adjusted EBITDA (30 percent). The grant date fair value of the first tranche of the February 2014 performance RSUs was $9 million, and the grant date fair value of the second tranche of the February 2013 performance RSUs was $17 million. These values are being recognized over the tranches’ twelve-month service periods. The Company began recording stock-based compensation expense for these tranches in February 2014, when the financial performance goals were established.

Stock Repurchases. In May 2012, the Board authorized a stock repurchase program allowing the Company to repurchase up to $5 billion of its outstanding shares of common stock from time to time. That repurchase program, which by its terms would have expired in June 2015, was exhausted during the first quarter of 2014. In November 2013, the Board authorized an additional stock repurchase program with an authorized level of $5 billion. The November 2013 program, according to its terms, will expire in December 2016. The aggregate amount available under the November 2013 repurchase program was approximately $4.6 billion at March 31, 2014. Repurchases under the repurchase programs may take place in the open market or in privately negotiated transactions, including structured and derivative transactions such as accelerated share repurchase transactions, and may be made under a Rule 10b5-1 plan. During the three months ended March 31, 2014, the Company repurchased approximately 12 million shares of its common stock under its stock repurchase programs at an average price of $37.65 per share for a total of $450 million.

Note 14 RESTRUCTURING (REVERSALS) CHARGES, NET

Restructuring (reversals) charges, net was comprised of the following (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended March 31, 2013
	Restructuring Plans Prior to 2012			Q2’12 Restructuring Plan			Q4’12 Korea Business Closure			Total
Employee severance pay and related costs	$	(3	)	$	(10,265	)	$	(103	)	$	(10,371	)
Non-cancelable lease, contract terminations, and other charges		2,811			65			(114	)		2,762
Other non-cash charges, net		—			—			547			547
Restructuring (reversals) charges, net	$	2,808		$	(10,200	)	$	330		$	(7,062	)

	Three Months Ended March 31, 2014
	Restructuring Plans Prior to 2012		Q2’12 Restructuring Plan			Q4’12 Korea Business Closure			Q4’13 Restructuring Plan		Q1’14 Restructuring Plan		Total
Employee severance pay and related costs (reversals)	$	—	$	(94	)	$	—		$	98	$	3,212	$	3,216
Non-cancelable lease, contract terminations, and other charges		6,438		35			(202	)		—		—		6,271
Restructuring (reversals) charges, net	$	6,438	$	(59	)	$	(202	)	$	98	$	3,212	$	9,487

Although the Company does not allocate restructuring charges to its segments, the amounts of the restructuring charges relating to each segment are presented below.

Restructuring Plans Prior to 2012. Prior to 2012, the Company implemented workforce reductions, a strategic realignment, and consolidation of certain real estate facilities and data centers to reduce its cost structure, align resources with its product strategy and improve efficiency. During the three months ended March 31, 2013, the Company recorded net pre-tax cash charges of $3 million in severance, facility and other related costs, the majority of which related to the Americas segment. During the three months ended March 31, 2014, the Company recorded net pre-tax charges of $6 million in facility and other related costs, consisting of $5 million related to the Americas segment and $1 million related to the EMEA segment.

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Q2’12 Restructuring Plan.During the second quarter of 2012, the Company began implementing the Q2’12 Restructuring Plan to reduce its worldwide workforce by approximately 2,000 employees and to consolidate certain real estate and data center facilities. During the three months ended March 31, 2013, the Company recorded total pre-tax cash charges of $6 million in severance and facility related costs. The total pre-tax cash charges were offset by a credit of $16 million for severance-related costs due to changes to original estimates and redeployments and voluntary resignations of employees prior to their planned severance dates. Of the $10 million credit in restructuring charges, net, recorded in the three months ended March 31, 2013, $6 million related to the Americas segment and $4 million related to the EMEA segment. During the three months ended March 31, 2014, the Company recorded immaterial net reversals for adjustments to original estimates in severance and facility related costs, the majority of which related to the Americas segment.

Q4’12 Korea Business Closure.During the fourth quarter of 2012, the Company decided to close its Korea business by the end of 2012 to streamline its operations and focus its resources. During the three months ended March 31, 2013, the Company recorded net pre-tax charges of less than $1 million in severance, facility and contract termination costs related to the Asia Pacific segment. During the three months ended March 31, 2014, the Company recorded immaterial reversals for adjustments to original estimates of contract termination costs related to the Asia Pacific segment.

Q4’13 Restructuring Plan.During the fourth quarter of 2013, the Company started the process of closing its Cairo, Egypt and Rolle, Switzerland offices as part of its continued efforts to streamline its operations and focus its resources. During the three months ended March 31, 2014, the Company recorded immaterial pre-tax cash charges in severance and other related costs, which all related to the EMEA segment.

Q1’14 Restructuring Plan. During the first quarter of 2014, the Company implemented a strategic plan to align resources with its product strategy and improve efficiency. During the three months ended March 31, 2014, the Company recorded total pre-tax cash charges of $3 million in severance and other related costs, which all related to the EMEA segment.

Restructuring Accruals. The $29 million restructuring liability as of March 31, 2014 consisted of $4 million for employee severance pay expenses, which the Company expects to pay out by the end of the third quarter of 2014, and $25 million relating to non-cancelable lease costs, which the Company expects to pay over the terms of the related obligations which extend to the fourth quarter of 2021.

The Company’s restructuring accrual activity for the three months ended March 31, 2014 is summarized as follows (in thousands):

	Restructuring Plans Prior to 2012			Q2’12 Restructuring Plan			Q4’12 Korea Business Closure			Q4’13 Restructuring Plan			Q1’14 Restructuring Plan			Total
Balance as of January 1, 2014	$	22,349		$	2,765		$	337		$	4,645		$	—		$	30,096
Employee severance pay and related costs		—			28			—			351			3,212			3,591
Non-cancelable lease, contract termination, and other charges		6,496			35			1			—			—			6,532
Changes in estimates and reversals of previous charges		(58	)		(122	)		(203	)		(253	)		—			(636	)
Restructuring (reversals) charges, net for the three months ended March 31, 2014	$	6,438		$	(59	)	$	(202	)	$	98		$	3,212		$	9,487
Cash paid		(5,120	)		(378	)		(135	)		(2,171	)		(2,538	)		(10,342	)
Foreign currency		18			11			—			(17	)		3			15
Balance as of March 31, 2014	$	23,685		$	2,339		$	—		$	2,555		$	677		$	29,256

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Restructuring accruals by segment consisted of the following (in thousands):

	December 31, 2013		March 31, 2014
Americas	$	18,078	$	20,170
EMEA		11,284		8,666
Asia Pacific		734		420
Total restructuring accruals	$	30,096	$	29,256

Note 15 INCOME TAXES

The Company’s effective tax rate is the result of the mix of income earned in various tax jurisdictions that apply a broad range of income tax rates. Historically, the Company’s provision for income taxes has differed from the tax computed at the U.S. federal statutory income tax rate due to state taxes, the effect of non-U.S. operations, non-deductible stock-based compensation expense and adjustments to unrecognized tax benefits.

The effective tax rate reported for the three months ended March 31, 2014 was 25 percent compared to 15 percent for the same period in 2013. The rates in both periods were lower than the U.S. federal statutory rate primarily due to the reductions of tax reserves that were recorded based on new information received during interactions with the tax authorities. The income tax expense reported for the three months ended March 31, 2014 does not include any benefit from the federal research and development tax credit as that provision expired on December 31, 2013.

As of March 31, 2014, the Company does not anticipate repatriating its undistributed foreign earnings of approximately $2.8 billion. Those earnings are principally related to its equity method investment in Yahoo Japan. If those earnings were to be repatriated in the future, the Company may be subject to additional U.S. income taxes (subject to an adjustment for foreign tax credits). It is not practicable to determine the income tax liability that might be incurred if these earnings were to be repatriated.

The Company is in various stages of examination and appeal in connection with its taxes both in the U.S. and in foreign jurisdictions. Those audits generally span tax years 2005 through 2012. The IRS Appeals division is currently finalizing the Company’s protest of the 2007 and 2008 audit results, while the 2009 and 2010 U.S. federal income tax returns are currently under examination. The Company has protested the proposed California Franchise Tax Board’s adjustments to the 2005 and 2006 returns, but no conclusions have been reached to date. The 2007 and 2008 California tax returns are currently under examination.

The Company’s gross amount of unrecognized tax benefits as of March 31, 2014 was $691 million, of which $603 million is recorded on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. The gross unrecognized tax benefits as of March 31, 2014 decreased by $4 million from the recorded balance as of December 31, 2013. It is difficult to determine when the examinations will be settled or what their final outcome will be. The Company believes, however, that it has adequately provided for any reasonably foreseeable adjustment and that any settlement will not have a material adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.

The Company may have additional tax liabilities in China related to the sale to Alibaba Group of 523 million of Alibaba Group Shares that took place during the year ended December 31, 2012. Any taxes assessed and paid in China are expected to be ultimately offset and recovered in the U.S.

During the year ended December 31, 2012, tax authorities from the Brazilian State of Sao Paulo assessed certain indirect taxes against the Company’s Brazilian subsidiary, Yahoo! do Brasil Internet Ltda., related to online advertising services. The assessment totaling approximately $85 million is for calendar years 2008 and 2009. The Company currently believes the assessment is without merit. The Company believes the risk of loss is remote and has not recorded an accrual for the assessment.

Note 16 SEGMENTS

The Company continues to manage its business geographically. The primary areas of measurement and decision-making are Americas, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), and Asia Pacific. Management relies on an internal reporting process that provides revenue ex-TAC, which is defined as revenue less TAC, direct costs excluding TAC by segment, and consolidated income from operations for making decisions related to the evaluation of the financial performance of, and allocating resources to, the Company’s segments.

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The following tables present summarized information by segment (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended
	March 31, 2013			March 31, 2014
Revenue by segment:
Americas	$	842,195		$	866,928
EMEA		94,824			91,570
Asia Pacific		203,349			174,232
Total Revenue	$	1,140,368		$	1,132,730
TAC by segment:
Americas	$	37,522		$	34,094
EMEA		11,536			9,193
Asia Pacific		17,010			2,622
Total TAC	$	66,068		$	45,909
Revenue ex-TAC by segment:
Americas	$	804,673		$	832,834
EMEA		83,288			82,377
Asia Pacific		186,339			171,610
Total Revenue ex-TAC		1,074,300			1,086,821
Direct costs by segment(1):
Americas		176,393			177,355
EMEA		38,545			39,726
Asia Pacific		54,954			44,314
Global operating costs(2)(3)		418,803			519,045
Depreciation and amortization		162,092			157,534
Stock-based compensation expense		44,605			109,181
Restructuring (reversals) charges, net		(7,062	)		9,487
Income from operations	$	185,970		$	30,179

⁽¹⁾  Direct costs for each segment include cost of revenue—other as well as other operating expenses that are directly attributable to the segment such as employee compensation expense (excluding stock-based compensation expense), local sales and marketing expenses, and facilities expenses.

⁽²⁾  Global operating costs include product development, service engineering and operations, general and administrative, and other corporate expenses that are managed on a global basis and that are not directly attributable to any segment.

⁽³⁾  The net cost reimbursements from Microsoft pursuant to the Search Agreement are primarily included in global operating costs.

	Three Months Ended
	March 31, 2013		March 31, 2014
Capital expenditures, net:
Americas	$	65,416	$	63,977
EMEA		2,907		15,762
Asia Pacific		1,258		4,916
Total capital expenditures, net	$	69,581	$	84,655

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	December 31, 2013		March 31, 2014
Property and equipment, net:
Americas:
U.S.	$	1,346,889	$	1,336,609
Other		1,183		1,003
Total Americas	$	1,348,072	$	1,337,612
EMEA		44,976		53,654
Asia Pacific		95,470		88,140
Total property and equipment, net	$	1,488,518	$	1,479,406

See Note 14 —“Restructuring (Reversals) Charges, Net” for additional information regarding segments.

Enterprise Wide Disclosures:

The following table presents revenue for groups of similar services (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended
	March 31, 2013		March 31, 2014
Display	$	455,071	$	453,224
Search		424,687		444,767
Other		260,610		234,739
Total revenue	$	1,140,368	$	1,132,730

	Three Months Ended
	March 31, 2013		March 31, 2014
Revenue:
U.S.	$	804,753	$	833,658
International		335,615		299,072
Total revenue	$	1,140,368	$	1,132,730

Revenue is attributed to individual countries according to the online property that generated the revenue. No single foreign country was material to revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014.

Note 17 SEARCH AGREEMENT WITH MICROSOFT CORPORATION

By the end of 2013, the Company had substantially completed the transition of paid search to the Microsoft platform. In the transitioned markets, the Company reports as revenue the 88 percent revenue share it receives from Microsoft under the Search Agreement as the Company is not the primary obligor in the arrangement with the advertisers and publishers. The underlying search advertising services are provided by Microsoft. Approximately 30 percent and 36 percent of the Company’s revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively, was attributable to the Search Agreement.

Under the Search Agreement Microsoft continues to be obligated to guarantee Yahoo’s revenue per search (“RPS Guarantee”) on Yahoo Properties in Taiwan and Hong Kong for 18 months after the transition of paid search services to Microsoft’s platform in those markets, which was completed during the fourth quarter of 2013. In all other markets, Microsoft’s obligation to pay an RPS Guarantee or fixed quarterly payments in lieu of the RPS Guarantee terminated on or prior to March 31, 2014.

The Company’s results for the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014 reflect $13 million and less than $1 million, respectively, in search operating cost reimbursements from Microsoft under the Search Agreement. As of December 31, 2013 and March 31, 2014, the Company had collected total amounts of $21 million and $18 million, respectively, on behalf of Microsoft and Affiliates, which was included in cash and cash equivalents with a corresponding liability in accrued expenses and other current liabilities. The Company’s uncollected 88 percent share in connection with the Search Agreement was $305 million and $294 million, which is included in accounts receivable, net, as of December 31, 2013 and March 31, 2014, respectively. The total reimbursements not yet received from Microsoft of $5 million were classified as part of prepaid expenses and other current assets on the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheets as of December 31, 2013. There were no amounts classified as a part of prepaid expenses and other current assets on our condensed consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2014 related to reimbursements not yet received from Microsoft.

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Note 18 SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

Stock Repurchase Transactions. From April 1, 2014 through May 8, 2014, the Company repurchased approximately 9 million shares of its common stock at an average price of $35.45 per share, for a total of $325 million.

Net Investment Hedge. The Company also entered into new forward and option contracts with notional values of approximately $1.7 billion, with maturities ranging from six months to two years.

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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

Forward-Looking Statements

In addition to current and historical information, this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (“Report”) contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements relate to our future operations, prospects, potential products, services, developments, and business strategies. These statements can, in some cases, be identified by the use of terms such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “would,” “intend,” “expect,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “predict,” “project,” “potential,” or “continue,” the negative of such terms, or other comparable terminology. This Report includes, among others, forward-looking statements regarding our:

• expectations about revenue, including display, search, and other revenue;

• expectations about growth in users;

• expectations about changes in our earnings in equity interests;

• expectations about changes in operating expenses;

• anticipated capital expenditures;

• expectations about our share repurchase activity;

• expectations about the financial and operational impacts of our Search Agreement with Microsoft;

• impact of recent acquisitions on our business and evaluation of, and expectations for, possible acquisitions of, or investments in, businesses, products, intangible assets, and technologies;

• expectations about the growth of, and the opportunities for monetization in, the mobile industry;

• projections and estimates with respect to our restructuring activities and changes to our organizational structure;

• expectations about the amount of unrecognized tax benefits, the outcome of tax assessment appeals, the adequacy of our existing tax reserves, future tax expenditures, and tax rates;

• expectations about positive cash flow generation and existing cash, cash equivalents, and investments being sufficient to meet normal operating requirements; and

• expectations regarding the outcome of legal proceedings in which we are involved, including the outcome of our efforts to sustain the reversal of judgment entered against us and one of our subsidiaries in a proceeding in Mexico.

These statements involve certain known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in our forward-looking statements. You are urged to carefully review the disclosures made concerning risks and uncertainties that may affect our business or operating results, which include, among others, those listed in Part II, Item 1A. “Risk Factors” of this Report. We do not intend, and undertake no obligation, to update or revise any of our forward-looking statements after the date of this Report to reflect new information, actual results or future events or circumstances.

Overview

Yahoo! Inc., together with its consolidated subsidiaries (“Yahoo,” the “Company,” “we,” or “us”) is focused on making the world’s daily habits inspiring and entertaining. By creating highly personalized experiences for our users, we keep people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the world. We create value for advertisers with a streamlined, simplified advertising technology stack that leverages Yahoo’s data, reach and analytics to connect advertisers with their target audiences. For advertisers, the opportunity to be a part of users’ daily habits across products and platforms is a powerful tool to engage audiences and build brand loyalty.

Advertisers can build their businesses through advertising to targeted audiences on our online properties and services (“Yahoo Properties”) or through a distribution network of third party entities (“Affiliates”) who integrate our advertising offerings into their Websites or other offerings (“Affiliate sites”). Our revenue is generated principally from display and search advertising.

We continue to manage and measure our business geographically, principally in the Americas, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) and Asia Pacific.

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In the following Management’s Discussion and Analysis, we provide information regarding the following areas:

• Key Financial Metrics;

• Non-GAAP Financial Measures;

• Significant Transactions;

• Results of Operations;

• Liquidity and Capital Resources; and

• Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates.

Key Financial Metrics

The key financial metrics we use are as follows: revenue; revenue less traffic acquisition costs (“TAC”), or revenue ex-TAC; income from operations; adjusted EBITDA; net income attributable to Yahoo! Inc.; net cash provided by operating activities; and free cash flow. Revenue ex-TAC, adjusted EBITDA, and free cash flow are financial measures that are not defined in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) in the United States (“U.S.”). We use these non-GAAP financial measures for internal managerial purposes and to facilitate period-to-period comparisons. See “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” below for a description of each of these non-GAAP financial measures.

	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2013			2014
	(dollars in thousands)
Revenue	$	1,140,368		$	1,132,730
Revenue ex-TAC	$	1,074,300		$	1,086,821
Income from operations(*)	$	185,970		$	30,179
Adjusted EBITDA	$	385,605		$	306,381
Net income attributable to Yahoo! Inc.	$	390,285		$	311,578
Net cash provided by operating activities	$	218,682		$	139,061
Free cash flow	$	149,908		$	113,962
(*)     Includes:
Stock-based compensation expense	$	44,605		$	109,181
Restructuring (reversals) charges, net	$	(7,062	)	$	9,487

Revenue ex-TAC (a Non-GAAP Financial Measure)

	Three Months Ended March 31,				2013-2014 % Change
	2013		2014
	(dollars in thousands)
Revenue	$	1,140,368	$	1,132,730		(1	)%
Less: TAC		66,068		45,909		(31	)%
Revenue ex-TAC	$	1,074,300	$	1,086,821		1	%

For the three months ended March 31, 2014, revenue ex-TAC increased $13 million, or 1 percent, compared to the same period of 2013, due to an increase in search and display revenue ex-TAC partially offset by a decline in other revenue ex-TAC.

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Adjusted EBITDA (a Non-GAAP Financial Measure)

	Three Months Ended March 31,						2013-2014 % Change
	2013			2014
	(dollars in thousands)
Net income attributable to Yahoo! Inc.	$	390,285		$	311,578			(20)	%
Depreciation and amortization		162,092			157,534			(3)	%
Stock-based compensation expense		44,605			109,181			145	%
Restructuring (reversals) charges, net		(7,062)			9,487			N/M
Other income (expense), net		(17,072)			13,453			N/M
Provision for income taxes		29,736			4,217			(86)	%
Earnings in equity interests		(217,588)			(301,402)			39	%
Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests		609			2,333			N/M
Adjusted EBITDA	$	385,605		$	306,381			(21)	%
Percentage of Revenue ex-TAC(1)(2)		36	%		28	%

N/M = Not Meaningful

⁽¹⁾  Revenue ex-TAC is calculated as GAAP revenue less TAC.

⁽²⁾  Net income attributable to Yahoo! Inc. as a percentage of GAAP revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014 was 34 percent and 28 percent, respectively.

For the three months ended March 31, 2014, adjusted EBITDA decreased $79 million, or 21 percent, compared to 2013, mainly due to an increase in global operating costs partially offset by an increase in revenue ex-TAC and a decrease in direct costs in the Asia Pacific region.

Free Cash Flow (a Non-GAAP Financial Measure)

	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2013			2014
	(dollars in thousands)
Net cash provided by operating activities	$	218,682		$	139,061
Acquisition of property and equipment, net		(69,581	)		(84,655	)
Dividends received from equity investees		(12,000	)		—
Excess tax benefits from stock-based awards		12,807			59,556
Free cash flow	$	149,908		$	113,962

For the three months ended March 31, 2014, free cash flow decreased $36 million, or 24 percent, compared to 2013. The decrease was primarily attributable to a decline in net cash provided by operating activities and an increase in the acquisition of property and equipment, net year-over-year.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

Revenue ex-TAC

Revenue ex-TAC is a non-GAAP financial measure defined as GAAP revenue less TAC. TAC consists of payments made to Affiliates that have integrated our advertising offerings into their sites and payments made to companies that direct consumer and business traffic to Yahoo Properties.

Adjusted EBITDA

Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure defined as net income attributable to Yahoo! Inc. before taxes, depreciation, amortization of intangible assets, stock-based compensation expense, other income, net (which includes interest), earnings in equity interests, net income attributable to noncontrolling interests, and certain gains, losses, and expenses that we do not believe are indicative of our ongoing results.

Free Cash Flow

Free cash flow is a non-GAAP financial measure defined as net cash provided by operating activities (adjusted to include excess tax benefits from stock-based awards), less acquisition of property and equipment, net, and dividends received from equity investees.

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For additional information about these non-GAAP financial measures, see “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013 under the caption “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.”

Significant Transactions

Alibaba Group Holding Limited Initial Public Offering

On May 6, 2014, Alibaba Group Holding Limited(“Alibaba Group”) filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding its initial public offering. If Yahoo sells the 208 million ordinary shares of Alibaba Group that it is currently obligated to sell in connection with the completion of such offering, we will no longer account for our remaining investment in Alibaba Group using the equity method. If this occurs, we will no longer record our proportionate share of Alibaba Group’s financial results in our consolidated financial statements, which would materially reduce our reported net income.

Search Agreement with Microsoft Corporation

By the end of 2013, we had substantially completed the transition of paid search to the Microsoft Corporation (“Microsoft”) platform. For search revenue generated from Microsoft’s services on Yahoo Properties and Affiliate sites, we report as revenue the 88 percent revenue share, as we are not the primary obligor in the arrangement with the advertisers and publishers. The underlying search advertising services are provided by Microsoft. Revenue under our Search and Advertising Services and Sales Agreement (the “Search Agreement”) represented approximately 30 percent and 36 percent of our revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively.

Our results reflect search operating cost reimbursements from Microsoft under the Search Agreement of $13 million and less than $1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively. The total reimbursements not yet received from Microsoft of $5 million were classified as part of prepaid expenses and other current assets on our condensed consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2013. We did not have any amounts classified as a part of prepaid expenses and other current assets on our condensed consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2014 related to reimbursements not yet received from Microsoft.

See Note 17 — “Search Agreement with Microsoft Corporation” in the Notes to our condensed consolidated financial statements for additional information.

Results of Operations

	Three Months Ended March 31,					2013-2014 % Change
	2013			2014
	(dollars in thousands)
Revenue for groups of similar services:
Display
Yahoo Properties	$	405,126		$	408,193		1	%
Affiliate sites		49,945			45,031		(10)	%
Total Display revenue	$	455,071		$	453,224		—
Search
Yahoo Properties	$	320,176		$	371,744		16	%
Affiliate sites		104,511			73,023		(30)	%
Total Search revenue	$	424,687		$	444,767		5	%
Other	$	260,610		$	234,739		(10)	%
Total revenue	$	1,140,368		$	1,132,730		(1)	%
Cost of revenue — TAC	$	66,068		$	45,909		(31)	%
Cost of revenue — other		278,007			280,844		1	%
Sales and marketing		257,019			329,846		28	%
Product development		219,580			281,632		28	%
General and administrative		133,421			136,493		2	%
Amortization of intangibles		7,365			18,340		149	%
Restructuring (reversals) charges, net		(7,062	)		9,487		N/M
Total operating expenses	$	954,398		$	1,102,551		16	%
Income from operations	$	185,970		$	30,179		(84)	%
Includes:
Stock-based compensation expense	$	44,605		$	109,181		145	%

N/M = Not Meaningful

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The following table sets forth selected information concerning our results of operations as a percentage of revenue for the period indicated:

	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2013			2014
Revenue for groups of similar services:
Display
Yahoo Properties		36	%		36	%
Affiliate sites		4	%		4	%
Total Display revenue		40	%		40	%
Search
Yahoo Properties		28	%		33	%
Affiliate sites		9	%		6	%
Total Search revenue		37	%		39	%
Other		23	%		21	%
Total revenue		100	%		100	%
Cost of revenue—TAC		6	%		4	%
Cost of revenue—other		24	%		25	%
Sales and marketing		23	%		29	%
Product development		19	%		25	%
General and administrative		12	%		12	%
Amortization of intangibles		1	%		1	%
Restructuring (reversals) charges, net		(1)	%		1	%
Total operating expenses		84	%		97	%
Income from operations		16	%		3	%
Includes:
Stock-based compensation expense		4	%		10	%

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Management Reporting

We continue to manage our business geographically. The primary areas of measurement and decision-making are currently the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific. Management relies on an internal reporting process that provides revenue ex-TAC, direct costs excluding TAC by segment, and consolidated income from operations for making decisions related to the evaluation of the financial performance of, and allocating resources to, our segments.

	Three Months Ended March 31,					2013-2014 % Change
	2013			2014
	(dollars in thousands)
Revenue by segment:
Americas	$	842,195		$	866,928		3	%
EMEA		94,824			91,570		(3)	%
Asia Pacific		203,349			174,232		(14)	%
Total revenue	$	1,140,368		$	1,132,730		(1)	%
TAC by segment:
Americas	$	37,522		$	34,094		(9)	%
EMEA		11,536			9,193		(20)	%
Asia Pacific		17,010			2,622		(85)	%
Total TAC	$	66,068		$	45,909		(31)	%
Revenue ex-TAC by segment:
Americas	$	804,673		$	832,834		3	%
EMEA		83,288			82,377		(1)	%
Asia Pacific		186,339			171,610		(8)	%
Total revenue ex-TAC		1,074,300			1,086,821		1	%
Direct costs by segment(1):
Americas		176,393			177,355		1	%
EMEA		38,545			39,726		3	%
Asia Pacific		54,954			44,314		(19)	%
Global operating costs(2)(3)		418,803			519,045		24	%
Depreciation and amortization		162,092			157,534		(3)	%
Stock-based compensation expense		44,605			109,181		145	%
Restructuring (reversals) charges, net		(7,062	)		9,487		N/M
Income from operations	$	185,970		$	30,179		(84)	%

N/M = Not Meaningful

⁽¹⁾  Direct costs for each segment include cost of revenue — other, as well as other operating expenses that are directly attributable to the segment such as employee compensation expense (excluding stock-based compensation expense), local sales and marketing expenses, and facilities expenses.

⁽²⁾  Global operating costs include product development, service engineering and operations, general and administrative, and other corporate expenses that are managed on a global basis and that are not directly attributable to any particular segment.

⁽³⁾  The net cost reimbursements from Microsoft pursuant to the Search Agreement are primarily included in global operating costs.

Revenue

We generate revenue principally from display and search advertising on Yahoo Properties and Affiliate sites with the majority of our revenue coming from advertising on Yahoo Properties. Our margins on revenue from Yahoo Properties advertising are higher than our margins on revenue from display and search advertising on Affiliate sites, as we pay TAC to our Affiliates. Additionally, we generate revenue from other sources including listings-based services, facilitating commercial transactions, royalties, and consumer and business fee-based services.

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With the significant platform shift to mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets, we have increased our strategic focus on mobile products and mobile ad formats. We have hired engineering and technical talent to help us accelerate our efforts in mobile development, and introduced new mobile apps and refreshed the user experience on mobile across a number of Yahoo Properties, including News, Sports (including Fantasy Sports), Mail, and Finance. We are seeing an increase in the number of our daily and monthly mobile users as a result of these product improvements. As of March 31, 2014, we had more than 430 million monthly mobile users. The monetization of these mobile products is driven primarily through advertisements and we are committed to continuing to develop and deliver innovative ad formats on mobile. While mobile revenue (both display and search) has doubled year-over-year it is still not material to our total revenue.

For additional information about how we generate and recognize revenue, see “Results of Operations—Revenue—Display Revenue —Search Revenueand —Other Revenue” included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013 under the caption “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.”

Display Revenue

Display revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2014 was flat compared to the same period of 2013. Display revenue on Yahoo Properties increased $3 million. Display revenue on Yahoo Properties in the Americas region increased by $16 million driven by an increase in Ads Sold. Display revenue on Yahoo Properties decreased in the EMEA region due to declines in premium and non-premium advertising of $4 million as well as declines in advertising on Yahoo Properties in the Asia Pacific region of $9 million. Display revenue on Affiliate sites declined $5 million due to a decline in the Americas and EMEA regions partially offset by an increase in the Asia Pacific region.

Search Revenue

Search revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2014 increased by 5 percent compared to the same period of 2013 as we continue to see improvements in click yield. Search revenue on Yahoo Properties increased $52 million primarily due to higher revenue-per-search in the Americas and EMEA regions. The increase was partially offset by a decline in search revenue from Affiliate sites of $31 million. The decline in Affiliate revenue was primarily attributable to the required change in GAAP revenue presentation for transitioned markets from a gross to a net (after TAC) basis in the APAC region for Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Other Revenue

Other revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2014 decreased by 10 percent compared to the same period of 2013. The year-over-year decrease was primarily due to a decline in listings revenue.

Display and Search Metrics

We present information below regarding the number of “Ads Sold” and “Price-per-Ad” for display and the number of “Paid Clicks” and “Price-per-Click” for search. This information is derived from internal data.

“Ads Sold” is defined as display ad impressions for paying advertisers on Yahoo Properties. “Price-per-Ad” is defined as display revenue from Yahoo Properties divided by our total number of Ads Sold. Our price and volume metrics for display are based on display revenue which we report on a gross basis (before TAC). Our price and volume metrics for display exclude both the number of Ads Sold and the related revenue for certain regions where we did not retain historical information in a manner that would support period-to-period comparison on these metrics. The countries and regions included in our display metrics are: the U.S., the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and India.

“Paid Clicks” are defined as clicks by end-users on sponsored search listings on Yahoo Properties and Affiliate sites for which an advertiser pays on a per click basis. “Price-per-Click” is defined as search revenue divided by our total number of Paid Clicks. Our price and volume metrics for search are based on gross search revenue (before TAC) in all markets in which we operate.

We periodically review, refine and update our methodologies for monitoring, gathering, and counting numbers of Ads Sold and Paid Clicks and for calculating Price-per-Click and Price-per-Ad.

Commencing in the third quarter of 2013, we made three updates to our methodologies. First, we now include the impressions and revenue associated with our new stream ad units, which are display ads that appear in the content streams viewed by users, in our display price and volume metrics (Ads Sold and Price-per-Ad). Second, to provide metrics that are more consistent with our historical revenue trends, the revenue and volume associated with other display advertisements sold on a price-per-click basis have been excluded from our search price and volume metrics (Paid Clicks and Price-per-Click) and they will continue to be excluded from our display price and volume metrics. Finally, the revenue per search guarantee (the “RPS Guarantee”) that Microsoft agreed to pay has been excluded from the calculation of Price-per-Click. Prior period amounts have been updated to conform to the current presentation.

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Display Metrics

For the three months ended March 31, 2014, the number of Ads Sold increased 7 percent and Price-per-Ad decreased 5 percent, compared to the same period of 2013. The increase in Ads Sold year-over-year was attributable to an increase in stream ad units sold which was partially offset by a decline in graphical ad units sold. Through product improvements and innovative ad formats, we have increased user engagement resulting in improvements to the number of Ads Sold. The decrease in Price-per-Ad was due to a shift in the mix of ads sold toward lower priced stream ad units partially offset by an increase in Price-per-Ad on premium advertising and higher premium sell-through rates for advertising on certain Yahoo Properties, including the Homepage and Mail login page.

Search Metrics

For the three months ended March 31, 2014, Paid Clicks and Price-per-Click increased 6 percent and 8 percent, respectively, compared to the same period of 2013. The increase in Paid Clicks was primarily attributable to an increase in Paid Clicks on Yahoo Search in the Americas and EMEA regions. This was partially offset by a decline in Paid Clicks from Affiliate traffic in the Asia Pacific region related to the transition of paid search to Microsoft, and in the Americas region related to traffic quality improvement initiatives conducted by Yahoo. The increase in Price-per-Click was attributable to favorable mix shifts including a regional mix shift towards higher monetizing geographies and an increase in the amount of Paid Clicks from higher monetizing Yahoo Properties relative to Affiliate sites. Improvements in the search metrics resulted in year-over-year growth of 14 percent in search click revenue.

Revenue ex-TAC by Segment

Americas

Americas revenue ex-TAC for the three months ended March 31, 2014 increased $28 million, or 3 percent, compared to the same period of 2013. The increase in Americas revenue ex-TAC was primarily attributable to increased search revenue ex-TAC of $35 million and display revenue ex-TAC of $16 million. Search revenue ex-TAC increased 11 percent year-over-year as Paid Clicks increased 10 percent and Price-per-Click increased 3 percent in the Americas region. The increase in search revenue ex-TAC was attributable to higher revenue-per-search from a change in the design of the search results page and an increase in search advertising revenue from mobile devices, which was partially offset by a decline in Affiliate search revenue in the region. The increase in display revenue ex-TAC was due to an increase in non-premium advertising resulting from stream ad units partially offset by a decline in premium advertising on Mail. The number of Ads Sold in the Americas region increased 18 percent year-over-year primarily due to stream ad units, which increased 12 percent compared to prior quarter and represented approximately 20 percent of the global display ad volume during the three months ended March 31, 2014. The increase in Americas revenue ex-TAC was partially offset by a decline in other revenue ex-TAC of $23 million primarily related to a decline in listings revenue.

Revenue ex-TAC in the Americas accounted for approximately 77 percent of total revenue ex-TAC for the three months ended March 31, 2014 compared to 75 percent for the three months ended March 31, 2013.

EMEA

EMEA revenue ex-TAC for the three months ended March 31, 2014 decreased $1 million, or 1 percent, compared to the same period of 2013, due to decreased display and other revenue ex-TAC of $9 million offset by an increase in search revenue ex-TAC of $8 million. Display revenue ex-TAC declined due to a decrease in Ads Sold on the Homepage. Other revenue ex-TAC declined in the region due to a decline in fees revenue. The increase in search revenue ex-TAC was attributable to improved revenue-per-search on Yahoo Properties and year-over-year Price-per-Click growth. Platform enhancements and new ad formats contributed to improvements in search monetization.

Revenue ex-TAC in EMEA accounted for approximately 7 percent of total revenue ex-TAC for the three months ended March 31, 2014 compared to 8 percent for the three months ended March 31, 2013.

Asia Pacific

Asia Pacific revenue ex-TAC for the three months ended March 31, 2014 decreased $15 million, or 8 percent, compared to the same period of 2013. The decline in Asia Pacific year-over-year was primarily attributable to unfavorable foreign exchange fluctuations and a decline in search revenue ex-TAC related to the revenue share with Microsoft associated with the Search Agreement.

Revenue ex-TAC in Asia Pacific accounted for approximately 16 percent of total revenue ex-TAC for the three months ended March 31, 2014 compared to 17 percent for the three months ended March 31, 2013.

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Direct Costs by Segment

Americas

For the three months ended March 31, 2014, direct costs attributable to the Americas segment increased $1 million, or 1 percent, compared to the same period of 2013. The increase in direct costs was primarily due to higher marketing and outside service provider expenses of $5 million partially offset by lower compensation costs and bandwidth and other cost of revenue of $4 million. The increase in marketing expenses in the region was primarily attributable to promotional event production and management.

Direct costs attributable to the Americas segment represented approximately 21 percent of Americas revenue ex-TAC for the three months ended March 31, 2014 compared to 22 percent for the three months ended March 31, 2013.

EMEA

For the three months ended March 31, 2014, direct costs attributable to the EMEA segment increased $1 million, or 3 percent, compared to the same period of 2013 due to higher compensation costs, partially offset by a decline in content costs and bandwidth and other cost of revenue in the region.

Direct costs attributable to the EMEA segment represented approximately 48 percent of EMEA revenue ex-TAC for the three months ended March 31, 2014 compared to 46 percent for the three months ended March 31, 2013.

Asia Pacific

For the three months ended March 31, 2014, direct costs attributable to the Asia Pacific segment decreased $11 million, or 19 percent, compared to the same period of 2013. The decline was primarily attributable to lower compensation costs of $4 million, bandwidth and other cost of revenue of $2 million, and content costs of $2 million.

Direct costs attributable to the Asia Pacific segment represented approximately 26 percent of Asia Pacific revenue ex-TAC for the three months ended March 31, 2014 compared to 29 percent for the three months ended March 31, 2013.

Operating Costs and Expenses

Traffic Acquisition Costs

TAC consists of payments made to third-party entities that have integrated our advertising offerings into their Websites or other offerings and payments made to companies that direct consumer and business traffic to Yahoo Properties. We enter into agreements of varying duration that involve TAC. There are generally two economic structures of the Affiliate agreements: fixed payments based on a guaranteed minimum amount of traffic delivered, which often carry reciprocal performance guarantees from the Affiliate, or variable payments based on a percentage of our revenue or based on a certain metric, such as number of searches or paid clicks. We expense TAC under two different methods. Agreements with fixed payments are expensed ratably over the term the fixed payment covers, and agreements based on a percentage of revenue, number of searches, or other metrics are expensed based on the volume of the underlying activity or revenue multiplied by the agreed-upon price or rate.

TAC for the three months ended March 31, 2014 decreased $20 million, or 31 percent, compared to the same period of 2013. The decrease was primarily attributable to declines in the Asia Pacific, Americas, and EMEA regions of $14 million, $4 million, and $2 million, respectively. The decline in the Asia Pacific region was due to the required change in revenue presentation for transitioned markets from a gross (before TAC) to a net (after TAC) basis. The decline in the Americas and EMEA regions was attributable to a decline in display TAC.

TAC represented approximately 4 percent of GAAP revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2014, compared to 6 percent for the three months ended March 31, 2013.

Cost of Revenue—Other

Cost of revenue—other consists of bandwidth costs, and other expenses associated with the production and usage of Yahoo Properties, including amortization of developed technology and patents. Cost of revenue—other also includes costs for Yahoo’s technology platforms and infrastructure, including depreciation expense and other operating costs, directly related to revenue generating activities.

Cost of revenue—other increased $3 million, or 1 percent, for the three months ended March 31, 2014 compared to the same period of 2013. The increase for the three months ended March 31, 2014, compared to 2013, was primarily due to increases in bandwidth costs of $5 million and content costs of $3 million. This was partially offset by a decline of $4 million in cost of revenue related to rich media and our Asia Pacific e-commerce business.

Cost of revenue—other represented approximately 25 percent of GAAP revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2014, compared to 24 percent for the three months ended March 31, 2013.

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Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of advertising and other marketing-related expenses, compensation-related expenses (including stock-based compensation expense), sales commissions, and travel costs.

Sales and marketing expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2014 increased $73 million, or 28 percent, compared to the same period of 2013, primarily attributable to increases of $37 million in stock-based compensation expense and $30 million in other compensation costs. The increase in stock-based compensation expense was attributable to an increase in the number of awards granted at a higher fair value and vesting accelerations upon executive terminations. The increase in compensation costs was primarily attributable to a 7 percent increase in headcount year-over-year, including an incremental increase in sales and marketing headcount from Tumblr, as well as merit-based increases in salaries, incentive compensation increases and higher payroll tax expense related to stock-based compensation.

Sales and marketing expenses represented approximately 29 percent of GAAP revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2014, compared to 23 percent for the three months ended March 31, 2013. The increase in this percentage was primarily related to the increases in stock-based compensation expense and compensation costs as discussed above and reflects increased investments in sales and marketing.

Product Development

Product development expenses consist primarily of compensation-related expenses (including stock-based compensation expense) incurred for the development of, enhancements to and maintenance of Yahoo Properties, classification and organization of listings within Yahoo Properties, research and development, and Yahoo’s technology platforms and infrastructure. Depreciation expense and other operating costs are also included in product development.

Product development expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2014 increased $62 million, or 28 percent, compared to the same period of 2013, primarily attributable to increases of $57 million in compensation costs, $6 million in stock-based compensation expense, as well as a decline in capitalizable projects of $8 million. This was partially offset by declines of $5 million in outside service provider expenses and $5 million in depreciation expense. The increase in compensation costs was due to an 8 percent increase in headcount in the function year-over-year, including an incremental increase in product development headcount from Tumblr, as well as merit-based increases in salaries, incentive compensation increases and higher payroll tax expense related to stock-based compensation. The increase in stock-based compensation expense was due to an increase in the number of awards granted at a higher fair value.

Product development expenses represented approximately 25 percent of GAAP revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2014, compared to 19 percent for the three months ended March 31, 2013. The increase in this percentage was primarily related to the increase in compensation costs as discussed above and reflects investments and acquisitions that were made in prior periods.

General and Administrative

General and administrative expenses consist primarily of compensation-related expenses (including stock-based compensation expense) related to other corporate departments and fees for professional services.

General and administrative expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2014 increased $3 million, or 2 percent, compared to the same period of 2013, primarily attributable to increases of $4 million in compensation costs and $3 million in stock-based compensation expense, which was partially offset by a decrease in professional services expense of $5 million. The increase in compensation costs was primarily attributable to a 13 percent increase in headcount year-over-over. The increase in stock based compensation expense was attributable to an increase in the number of awards granted at a higher fair value.

General and administrative expenses represented approximately 12 percent of GAAP revenue for both the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013.

Amortization of Intangibles

We have purchased, and expect to continue purchasing, assets and/or businesses, which may include the purchase of intangible assets. Intangible assets include customer, affiliate, and advertiser-related relationships and tradenames, trademarks and domain names. Amortization of developed technology and patents is included in the cost of revenue—other and not in amortization of intangibles.

Amortization of intangibles for the three months ended March 31, 2014 increased $11 million, or 149 percent, compared to the same period of 2013. The year-over-year increase in amortization of intangibles from 2013 to 2014 was primarily driven by amortization of intangible assets related to Tumblr, which we acquired in the second quarter of 2013.

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Amortization of intangibles represented approximately 1 percent of GAAP revenue for both the three months ended March 31, 2014 and March 31, 2013.

Restructuring (Reversals) Charges, Net

Restructuring (reversals) charges, net was comprised of the following (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended March 31, 2013
	Restructuring Plans Prior to 2012			Q2’12 Restructuring Plan			Q4’12 Korea Business Closure			Total
Employee severance pay and related costs	$	(3	)	$	(10,265	)	$	(103	)	$	(10,371	)
Non-cancelable lease, contract terminations, and other charges		2,811			65			(114	)		2,762
Other non-cash charges, net		—			—			547			547
Restructuring (reversals) charges, net	$	2,808		$	(10,200	)	$	330		$	(7,062	)

	Three Months Ended March 31, 2014
	Restructuring Plans Prior to 2012		Q2’12 Restructuring Plan			Q4’12 Korea Business Closure			Q4’13 Restructuring Plan		Q1’14 Restructuring Plan		Total
Employee severance pay and related costs (reversals)	$	—	$	(94	)	$	—		$	98	$	3,212	$	3,216
Non-cancelable lease, contract terminations, and other charges		6,438		35			(202	)		—		—		6,271
Restructuring (reversals) charges, net	$	6,438	$	(59	)	$	(202	)	$	98	$	3,212	$	9,487

Restructuring Plans Prior to 2012. Prior to 2012, we implemented workforce reductions, a strategic realignment, and consolidation of certain real estate facilities and data centers to reduce our cost structure, align resources with our product strategy, and improve efficiency. During the three months ended March 31, 2013, we recorded net pre-tax cash charges of $3 million in severance, facility, and other related costs, the majority of which related to the Americas segment. During the three months ended March 31, 2014, we recorded net pre-tax charges of $6 million in facility and other related costs, consisting of $5 million related to the Americas segment and $1 million related to the EMEA segment.

As of March 31, 2014, the aggregate outstanding restructuring liability related to the Restructuring Plans Prior to 2012 was $24 million, most of which relates to non-cancelable lease costs that we expect to pay over the terms of the related obligations, which extend to the second quarter of 2017.

Q2’12 Restructuring Plan.During the second quarter of 2012, we began implementing the Q2’12 Restructuring Plan to reduce our worldwide workforce by approximately 2,000 employees and to consolidate certain real estate and data center facilities. During the three months ended March 31, 2013, we recorded total pre-tax cash charges of $6 million in severance and facility related costs. The total pre-tax cash charges were offset by a credit of $16 million for severance-related costs due to changes to original estimates and redeployments and voluntary resignations of employees prior to their planned severance dates. Of the $10 million credit in restructuring charges, net, recorded in the three months ended March 31, 2013, $6 million related to the Americas segment and $4 million related to the EMEA segment. During the three months ended March 31, 2014, we recorded immaterial net reversals for adjustments to original estimates in severance and facility related costs, the majority of which related to the Americas segment.

As of March 31, 2014, the aggregate outstanding restructuring liability related to the Q2’12 Restructuring Plan was $2 million, most of which relates to non-cancelable lease costs that we expect to pay over the terms of the related obligations, which extend to the fourth quarter of 2021.

Q4’12 Korea Business Closure.During the fourth quarter of 2012, we decided to close our Korea business to streamline our operations and focus our resources. During the three months ended March 31, 2013, we recorded net pre-tax charges of less than $1 million in severance, facility and contract termination costs related to the Asia Pacific segment. During the three months ended March 31, 2014, the Company recorded immaterial reversals for adjustments to original estimates of contract termination costs related to the Asia Pacific segment.

As of March 31, 2014, there was no restructuring liability as we have completed the Q4’12 Korea Business Closure.

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Q4’13 Restructuring Plan. During the fourth quarter of 2013, we started the process of closing our Cairo, Egypt and Rolle, Switzerland offices, as part of our continued efforts to streamline our operations and focus our resources. During the three months ended March 31, 2014, we recorded immaterial pre-tax cash charges in severance and other related costs, which all related to the EMEA segment.

As of March 31, 2014, the aggregate outstanding restructuring liability related to the Q4’13 Restructuring Plan was approximately $2 million for severance and related costs that we expect to pay by the third quarter of 2014.

Q1’14 Restructuring Plan. During the first quarter of 2014, we implemented a strategic plan to align resources with our product strategy and improve efficiency. During the three months ended March 31, 2014, we recorded total pre-tax cash charges of $3 million in severance and other related costs, which all related to the EMEA segment.

As of March 31, 2014, the aggregate outstanding restructuring liability related to the Q1’14 Restructuring Plan was $1 million for severance and related costs that we expect to pay by the third quarter of 2014.

See Note 14 — “Restructuring (Reversals) Charges, Net” in the Notes to our condensed consolidated financial statements for additional information.

Other Income, Net

Other income, net was as follows (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended
	March 31, 2013			March 31, 2014
Interest, dividend and investment income	$	25,918		$	5,437
Interest expense, net		(2,273	)		(17,081	)
Other expense, net		(6,573	)		(1,809	)
Total other income, net	$	17,072		$	(13,453	)

Interest, dividend and investment income decreased primarily due to dividend income on the Alibaba Group Preference Shares included for the three months ended March 31, 2013 for which there was no similar income for the three months ended March 31, 2014.

Interest expense increased $15 million for the three months ended March 31, 2014, compared to the same period of 2013, due to the accreted non-cash interest expense related to the 0.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2018 (“Notes”).

Other expense, net decreased primarily due to unrealized and realized foreign exchange currency transaction gains.

Income Taxes

Our effective tax rate is the result of the mix of income earned in various tax jurisdictions that apply a broad range of income tax rates. Historically, our provision for income taxes has differed from the tax computed at the U.S. federal statutory income tax rate due to state taxes, the effect of non-U.S. operations, non-deductible stock-based compensation expense and adjustments to unrecognized tax benefits.

The effective tax rate reported for the three months ended March 31, 2014 was 25 percent compared to 15 percent for the same period in 2013. The rates in both periods were lower than the U.S. federal statutory rate primarily due to the reductions of tax reserves that were recorded based on new information received during interactions with tax authorities. The income tax expense reported for the three months ended March 31, 2014 does not include any benefit from the federal research and development tax credit as that provision expired on December 31, 2013.

As of March 31, 2014, we do not anticipate repatriating our undistributed foreign earnings of approximately $2.8 billion. Those earnings are principally related to our equity method investment in Yahoo Japan. If those earnings were to be repatriated in the future, we may be subject to additional U.S. income taxes (subject to an adjustment for foreign tax credits). It is not practicable to determine the income tax liability that might be incurred if these earnings were to be repatriated.

We are in various stages of examination and appeal in connection with our taxes both in the U.S. and in foreign jurisdictions. Those audits generally span tax years 2005 through 2012. The IRS Appeals division is currently finalizing our protest of the 2007 and 2008 audit results, while the 2009 and 2010 U.S. federal income tax returns are currently under examination. We have protested the proposed California Franchise Tax Board’s adjustments to the 2005 and 2006 returns, but no conclusions have been reached to date. The 2007 and 2008 California tax returns are currently under examination.

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Our gross amount of unrecognized tax benefits as of March 31, 2014 is $691 million, of which $603 million is recorded on our condensed consolidated balance sheets. The gross unrecognized tax benefits as of March 31, 2014 decreased by $4 million from the recorded balance as of December 31, 2013. It is difficult to determine when the examinations will be settled or what their final outcome will be. We believe, however, that we have adequately provided for any reasonably foreseeable adjustment and that any settlement will not have a material adverse effect on our consolidated financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.

We may have additional tax liabilities in China related to the sale to Alibaba Group during the year ended December 31, 2012 of 523 million of the 1,047 million ordinary shares of Alibaba Group that we owned. Any taxes assessed and paid in China are expected to be ultimately offset and recovered in the U.S.

During the year ended December 31, 2012, tax authorities from the Brazilian State of Sao Paulo assessed certain indirect taxes against our Brazilian subsidiary, Yahoo! do Brasil Internet Ltda., related to online advertising services. The assessment totaling approximately $85 million is for calendar years 2008 and 2009. We currently believe the assessment is without merit. We believe the risk of loss is remote and have not recorded an accrual for the assessment.

Earnings in Equity Interests

Earnings in equity interests for the three months ended March 31, 2014 was $301 million compared to $218 million for the same period in 2013. The increase for the three months ended March 31, 2014 was due primarily to improved financial performance for Alibaba Group. See Note 8 — “Investments in Equity Interests” in the Notes to our condensed consolidated financial statements for additional information. We record earnings in equity interests one quarter in arrears.

Noncontrolling Interests

Noncontrolling interests represent the noncontrolling holders’ percentage share of income or losses from the subsidiaries in which we hold a majority, but less than 100 percent, ownership interest and the results of which are consolidated in our condensed consolidated financial statements.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

	December 31, 2013			March 31, 2014
	(Dollars in thousands)
Cash and cash equivalents	$	2,077,590		$	1,198,016
Short-term marketable securities		1,330,304			1,741,494
Long-term marketable securities		1,589,500			1,631,819
Total cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities	$	4,997,394		$	4,571,329
Percentage of total assets		30	%		28	%

	Three Months Ended  March 31,
Cash Flow Highlights	2013			2014
	(In thousands)
Net cash provided by operating activities	$	218,682		$	139,061
Net cash used in investing activities	$	(950,880	)	$	(577,779	)
Net cash used in financing activities	$	(746,254	)	$	(439,541	)

Our operating activities for the three months ended March 31, 2014 generated adequate cash to meet our operating needs.

As of March 31, 2014, we had cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities totaling $4.6 billion compared to $5 billion at December 31, 2013. During the three months ended March 31, 2014, we repurchased 12 million shares of our outstanding common stock for $450 million.

Our foreign subsidiaries held $627 million of our total $4.6 billion of cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities as of March 31, 2014. The cumulative earnings remaining in our consolidated foreign subsidiaries, if repatriated to the U.S., under current law, would be subject to U.S. income taxes with an adjustment for foreign tax credits. For the earnings that are considered indefinitely reinvested outside the U.S, we do not anticipate a need to repatriate these earnings for use in our U.S. operations.

Our credit agreement (the “Credit Agreement”) with Citibank, N.A. terminates on October 9, 2014. As of March 31, 2014, we were in compliance with the financial covenants in the Credit Agreement and no amounts were outstanding. See Note 10 — “Credit Agreement” in the Notes to our condensed consolidated financial statements for additional information.

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We currently hedge a portion of our net investment in Yahoo Japan with forward contracts to reduce the risk that our investment in Yahoo Japan will be adversely affected by foreign currency translation exchange rate fluctuations. The forward contracts are required to be settled in cash and the amount of cash payment we receive or could be required to pay upon settlement could be material.

We expect to continue to evaluate possible acquisitions of, or strategic investments in, businesses, products, and technologies that are complementary to our business, which acquisitions and investments may require the use of cash.

We expect to generate positive cash flows from operations in the second quarter of 2014. We use cash generated by operations as our primary source of liquidity, since we believe that internally generated cash flows are sufficient to support our business operations and capital expenditures. We believe that existing cash, cash equivalents, and investments in marketable securities, together with any cash generated from operations, and borrowings under the Credit Agreement, will be sufficient to meet normal operating requirements including capital expenditures for the next twelve months, as well as additional stock repurchases we expect to make under our stock repurchase program.

Cash Flow Changes

Net cash provided by operating activities. For the three months ended March 31, 2014, operating activities provided $139 million in cash. During this period, we generated adjusted EBITDA of $306 million, which were offset by working capital movements. Accounts payable increased $19 million and accounts receivable decreased $98 million, offset by a decrease in accrued expenses and other liabilities of $240 million, a decrease in deferred revenue of $39 million, and an increase in prepaid expenses and other current assets of $9 million. For the three months ended March 31, 2013, operating activities provided $219 million in cash. During this period, we generated adjusted EBITDA of $386 million and received dividends of $12 million, which were offset by working capital movements. Accounts receivable decreased $58 million and prepaid expenses and other current assets decreased $20 million, offset by a decrease in accrued expenses and other liabilities of $123 million, a decrease in accounts payable of $71 million, and a decrease in deferred revenue of $25 million.

Net cash used in investing activities. In the three months ended March 31, 2014, the $578 million used in investing activities was due to purchases of marketable securities, net of disposals and maturities, of $462 million, $85 million used for capital expenditures, $22 million used for acquisitions, $10 million used for additional equity investments, and $1 million used for purchase of intangibles and other activities, partially offset by $2 million in net proceeds from settlement of derivative hedge contracts. In the three months ended March 31, 2013, the $951 million used in investing activities was due to net purchases of marketable securities of $874 million, $70 million used for capital expenditures, and $7 million used for acquisitions and other activities.

Net cash used in financing activities. In the three months ended March 31, 2014, the $440 million used in financing activities was due to $450 million used for the repurchase of 12 million shares of common stock at an average price of $37.65 per share and $127 million used for tax withholding payments related to net share settlements of restricted stock units and other activities. This was partially offset by $79 million in cash proceeds received from employee stock option exercises and employee stock purchases made through our employee stock purchase plan, and an excess tax benefit from stock-based awards of $60 million. In the three months ended March 31, 2013, the $746 million used in financing activities was due to $775 million used for the repurchase of 38 million shares of common stock at an average price of $20.35 per share and $45 million used for tax withholding payments related to net share settlements of restricted stock units and other activities. This was partially offset by $61 million in cash proceeds received from employee stock option exercises and employee stock purchases made through our employee stock purchase plan, and an excess tax benefit from stock-based awards of $13 million.

Capital Expenditures, Net

Capital expenditures are generally comprised of purchases of computer hardware, software, server equipment, furniture and fixtures, real estate, and capitalized software and labor. Capital expenditures, net of disposals, were $85 million for the three months ended March 31, 2014 compared to $70 million in the same period of 2013. The increase in capital expenditures was due to incremental investment in hardware to support Company initiatives partially offset by declines in data center construction costs and capitalizable projects.

We expect capital expenditures, net to increase in future quarters in 2014 from the amount recorded during the three months ended March 31, 2014, as a result of increased investment initiatives.

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Stock Repurchases

During the three months ended March 31, 2014, we repurchased approximately 12 million shares of our common stock at an average price of $37.65 per share for a total of $450 million. The following table provides the remaining authorization and repurchases by program:

	May 2012 Program			November 2013 Program			Total
	(Dollars in millions)
January 1, 2014	$	93		$	5,000		$	5,093
Total repurchases in the first quarter		(93	)		(357	)		(450	)
March 31, 2014	$	—		$	4,643		$	4,643

Contractual Obligations and Commitments

Leases.We have entered into various non-cancelable operating and capital lease agreements for office space and data centers globally for original lease periods up to 12 years, expiring between 2014 and 2025.

A summary of lease commitments as of March 31, 2014 is as follows (in millions):

	Gross Operating Lease Commitments		Capital Lease Commitment
Nine months ending December 31, 2014	$	105	$	11
Years ending December 31,
2015		113		12
2016		76		9
2017		62		9
2018		39		9
2019		27		4
Due after 5 years		97		—
Total gross lease commitments	$	519	$	54
Less: interest		—		(13	)
Net lease commitments	$	519	$	41

Affiliate Commitments.We are obligated to make payments, which represent TAC, to our Affiliates. As of March 31, 2014, these commitments totaled $216 million, of which $10 million will be payable in the remainder of 2014, $205 million will be payable in 2015, and $1 million will be payable in 2016.

Intellectual Property Rights. We are committed to make certain payments under various intellectual property arrangements of up to $23 million through 2023.

Income Taxes. As of March 31, 2014, unrecognized tax benefits of $673 million, including interest and penalties, are recorded on our condensed consolidated balance sheets. Of this amount, we currently expect approximately $2 million to be paid by us in cash in the next 12 months for settlements of tax audits. The settlement period for the remaining balance cannot be determined.

Other Commitments and Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements. In the ordinary course of business, we may provide indemnifications of varying scope and terms to customers, vendors, lessors, joint ventures and business partners, purchasers of assets or subsidiaries and other parties with respect to certain matters, including, but not limited to, losses arising out of our breach of agreements or representations and warranties made by us, services to be provided by us, intellectual property infringement claims made by third parties or, with respect to the sale, lease, or assignment of assets or a subsidiary, matters related to our conduct of the business and tax matters prior to the sale. In addition, we have entered into indemnification agreements with our directors and certain of our officers that will require us, among other things, to indemnify them against certain liabilities that may arise by reason of their status or service as directors or officers. We have also agreed to indemnify certain former officers, directors, and employees of acquired companies in connection with the acquisition of such companies. We maintain director and officer insurance, which may cover certain liabilities arising from our obligation to indemnify our directors and officers, and former directors and officers of acquired companies, in certain circumstances. It is not possible to determine the aggregate maximum potential loss under these indemnification agreements due to the limited history of prior indemnification claims and the unique facts and circumstances involved in each particular agreement. Such indemnification agreements might not be subject to maximum loss clauses. Historically, we have not incurred material costs as a result of obligations under these agreements and we have not accrued any liabilities related to such indemnification obligations in our condensed consolidated financial statements.

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As of March 31, 2014, we did not have any relationships with unconsolidated entities or financial partnerships, such as entities often referred to as structured finance or special purpose entities, which would have been established for the purpose of facilitating off-balance sheet arrangements or other contractually narrow or limited purposes. Accordingly we are not exposed to any financing, liquidity, market, or credit risk that could arise if we had engaged in such relationships. In addition, we identified no variable interests currently held in entities for which we are the primary beneficiary. In addition, as of March 31, 2014, we had no off-balance sheet arrangements that have, or are reasonably likely to have, a current or future material effect on our consolidated financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures, or capital resources.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

Our discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations is based upon our condensed consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The preparation of these condensed consolidated financial statements requires us to make estimates, judgments, and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenue and expenses, and the related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe are reasonable under the circumstances. Our estimates form the basis for our judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

An accounting policy is considered to be critical if it requires an accounting estimate to be made based on assumptions about matters that are highly uncertain at the time the estimate is made, and if different estimates that reasonably could have been used, or changes in the accounting estimate that are reasonably likely to occur, could materially impact the condensed consolidated financial statements. We believe that our critical accounting policies reflect the more significant estimates and assumptions used in the preparation of the condensed consolidated financial statements.

For a discussion of our critical accounting policies and estimates, see “Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates” included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013 under the caption “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.” We have made no significant changes to our critical accounting policies and estimates from those described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013.

Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk

We are exposed to financial market risks, including changes in currency exchange rates and interest rates and changes in the market values of our investments. We may use derivative financial instruments to mitigate certain risks in accordance with our investment and foreign exchange policies.

We generally enter into master netting arrangements, which are designed to reduce credit risk by permitting net settlement of transactions with the same counterparty. We present our derivative assets and liabilities at their gross fair values on the condensed consolidated balance sheets.

Interest Rate Exposure

Our exposure to market risk for changes in interest rates impacts our costs associated with hedging, and primarily relates to our cash and marketable securities portfolio. We invest excess cash in money market funds, time deposits, and liquid debt instruments of the U.S. and foreign governments and their agencies, U.S. municipalities, and high-credit corporate issuers which are classified as marketable securities and cash equivalents.

In 2013, we issued $1.4375 billion of Notes due 2018. We carry the Notes at face value less unamortized discount on our condensed consolidated balance sheet. The fair value of the Notes changes when the market price of our stock fluctuates.

Investments in fixed rate and floating rate interest earning instruments carry a degree of interest rate risk. Fixed rate securities may have their fair market value adversely impacted due to a rise in interest rates, while floating rate securities may produce less income than expected if interest rates fall. Due in part to these factors, our future investment income may fall short of expectations due to changes in interest rates or we may suffer losses in principal if forced to sell securities that have declined in market value due to changes in interest rates. A hypothetical 100 basis point increase in interest rates would result in a $15 million and $17 million decrease in the fair value of our available-for-sale securities as of December 31, 2013 and March 31, 2014, respectively.

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Foreign Currency Exposure

The objective of our foreign exchange risk management program is to identify material foreign currency exposures and identify methods to manage these exposures to minimize the potential effects of currency fluctuations on our reported condensed consolidated cash flows and results of operations. Counterparties to our derivative contracts are all major institutions. See Note 9 — “Derivative Financial Instruments” in the Notes to our condensed consolidated financial statements for additional information on our hedging programs.

We transact business in various foreign currencies and have international revenue, as well as costs denominated in foreign currencies. This exposes us to the risk of fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates.

Net realized and unrealized foreign currency transaction losses were $8 million and $2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014, respectively.

Translation Exposure.We are also exposed to foreign exchange rate fluctuations as we convert the financial statements of our foreign subsidiaries and our investments in equity interests into U.S. dollars in consolidation. If there is a change in foreign currency exchange rates, the conversion of the foreign subsidiaries’ financial statements into U.S. dollars results in a gain or loss which is recorded as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income which is part of stockholders’ equity.

A Value-at-Risk (“VaR”) sensitivity analysis was performed on all of our foreign currency derivative positions as of March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013 to assess the potential impact of fluctuations in exchange rates. The VaR model uses a Monte Carlo simulation to generate thousands of random price paths assuming normal market conditions. The VaR is the maximum expected one day loss in fair value, for a given statistical confidence level, to our foreign currency derivative positions due to adverse movements in rates. The VaR model is used as a risk management tool and is not intended to represent either actual or forecasted losses. Based on the results of the model using a 99 percent confidence interval, we estimate the maximum one-day loss in fair value is $12 million on the notional value of the net investment hedges at both March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013. The maximum one-day loss in fair value is less than $1 million on the notional value of our cash flow hedges at both March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013. The maximum one-day loss in fair value is $2 million on the notional value of our balance sheet hedges at both March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013. Actual future gains and losses associated with our derivative positions may differ materially from the sensitivity analysis performed as of December 31, 2013 due to the inherent limitations associated with predicting the timing and amount of changes in foreign currency exchange rates and our actual exposures and positions. In addition, the VaR sensitivity analysis may not reflect the complex market reactions that may arise from the market shifts modeled within this VaR sensitivity analysis.

Revenue ex-TAC and related expenses generated from our international subsidiaries are generally denominated in the currencies of the local countries. Primary currencies include Australian dollars, British pounds, Euros, Japanese yen, and Taiwan dollars. The statements of income of our international operations are translated into U.S. dollars at exchange rates indicative of market rates during each applicable period. To the extent the U.S. dollar strengthens against foreign currencies, the translation of these foreign currency-denominated transactions results in reduced consolidated revenue and operating expenses. Conversely, our consolidated revenue and operating expenses will increase if the U.S. dollar weakens against foreign currencies. Using the foreign currency exchange rates from the three months ended March 31, 2013, revenue ex-TAC for the Americas segment for the three months ended March 31, 2014 would have been higher than we reported by $3 million; revenue ex-TAC for the EMEA segment would have been lower than we reported by $2 million; and revenue ex-TAC for the Asia Pacific segment would have been higher than we reported by $13 million. Using the foreign currency exchange rates from the three months ended March 31, 2013, direct costs for the Americas segment for the three months ended March 31, 2014 would have been higher than we reported by $1 million; direct costs for the EMEA segment would have been lower than we reported by $1 million; and direct costs for the Asia Pacific segment would have been higher than we reported by $3 million.

Investment Exposure

We are exposed to investment risk as it relates to changes in the market value of our investments. We have investments in marketable securities and equity instruments of public and private companies.

Our cash and marketable securities investment policy and strategy attempts primarily to preserve capital and meet liquidity requirements. A large portion of our cash is managed by external managers within the guidelines of our investment policy. We protect and preserve invested funds by limiting default, market, and reinvestment risk. To achieve this objective, we maintain our portfolio of cash and cash equivalents and short-term and long-term investments in a variety of liquid fixed income securities, including both government and corporate obligations and money market funds. As of December 31, 2013 and March 31, 2014, net unrealized gains and losses on these investments were not material.

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Item 4. Controls and Procedures

Disclosure Controls and Procedures. The Company’s management, with the participation of the Company’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer, has evaluated the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), as of the end of the period covered by this Report. Based on such evaluation, the Company’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer have concluded that, as of the end of such period, the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were effective.

Internal Control Over Financial Reporting. There have not been any changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) during the most recent fiscal quarter that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

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PART II —OTHER INFORMATION

Item 1. Legal Proceedings

For a description of our material legal proceedings, see the section captioned “Contingencies” included in Note 12 — “Commitments and Contingencies” in the Notes to our condensed consolidated financial statements, which is incorporated by reference herein.

Item 1A. Risk Factors

We have updated the risk factors previously disclosed in Part I, Item 1A. of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 28, 2014 (“2013 Annual Report”), as set forth below. We do not believe any of the changes constitute material changes from the risk factors previously disclosed in our 2013 Annual Report other than changes to our risk factor concerning the Search Agreement with Microsoft.

We face significant competition for users, advertisers, publishers, developers, and distributors.

We face significant competition from online media companies, social media and networking sites, traditional print and broadcast media, search engines, and various e-commerce sites. In a number of international markets, especially those in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America, we face substantial competition from local Internet service providers and other portals that offer search, communications, and other commercial services.

Several of our competitors offer an integrated variety of Internet products, advertising services, technologies, online services and content in a manner similar to Yahoo. We compete against these and other companies to attract and retain users, advertisers, developers, and third-party Website publishers as participants in our Affiliate network, and to obtain agreements with third parties to promote or distribute our services. We also compete with social media and networking sites which are increasingly used to communicate and share information, and which are attracting a substantial and increasing share of users, users’ online time, and online advertising dollars.

A key element of our strategy is focusing on mobile products and mobile advertising formats, as well as increasing our revenue from mobile. A number of our competitors have devoted significant resources to the development of products and services for mobile devices. Currently our revenue from mobile is not material and several of our competitors have mobile revenue significantly greater than ours. If we are unable to develop products for mobile devices that users find engaging and that help us grow our mobile revenue, our competitive position, our financial condition and operating results could be harmed.

In addition, a number of competitors offer products and services that directly compete for users with our offerings, including e-mail, search, sports, news and finance. Similarly, the advertising networks operated by our competitors or by other participants in the display marketplace offer advertising exchanges, ad networks, demand side platforms, ad serving technologies, sponsored search offerings, and other services that directly compete for advertisers with our offerings. We also compete with traditional print and broadcast media companies to attract domestic and international advertising spending. Some of our existing competitors and possible entrants may have greater brand recognition for certain products and services, more expertise in particular market segments, and greater operational, strategic, technological, financial, personnel, or other resources than we do. Many of our competitors have access to considerable financial and technical resources with which to compete aggressively, including by funding future growth and expansion and investing in acquisitions, technologies, and research and development. Further, emerging start-ups may be able to innovate and provide new products and services faster than we can. In addition, competitors may consolidate or collaborate with each other, and new competitors may enter the market. Some of our competitors in international markets have a substantial competitive advantage over us because they have dominant market share in their territories, have greater local brand recognition, are focused on a single market, are more familiar with local tastes and preferences, or have greater regulatory and operational flexibility due to the fact that we may be subject to both U.S. and foreign regulatory requirements.

If our competitors are more successful than we are in developing and deploying compelling products or in attracting and retaining users, advertisers, publishers, developers, or distributors, our revenue and growth rates could decline.

We generate the majority of our revenue from display and search advertising, and the reduction in spending by or loss of current or potential advertisers would cause our revenue and operating results to decline.

For the three months ended March 31, 2014, 79 percent of our total revenue came from display and search advertising. Our ability to retain and grow display and search revenue depends upon:

• maintaining and growing our user base and popularity as an Internet destination site;

• maintaining the popularity of our existing products and introducing engaging new products and making our new and existing products popular and distributable on mobile and other alternative devices and platforms;

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• maintaining and expanding our advertiser base on PCs and mobile devices;

• broadening our relationships with advertisers to small- and medium-sized businesses;

• successfully implementing changes and improvements to our advertising management platforms and obtaining the acceptance of our advertising management platforms by advertisers, Website publishers, and online advertising networks;

• successfully acquiring, investing in, and implementing new technologies and strategic partnerships;

• successfully implementing changes in our sales force, sales development teams, and sales strategy;

• continuing to innovate and improve the monetization capabilities of our display advertising and mobile products;

• effectively monetizing mobile and other search queries;

• continuing to innovate and improve users’ search experiences;

• maintaining and expanding our Affiliate program for search and display advertising services; and

• deriving better demographic and other information about our users to enable us to offer better experiences to both our users and advertisers.

In most cases, our agreements with advertisers have a term of one year or less, and may be terminated at any time by the advertiser or by us. Search marketing agreements often have payments dependent upon usage or click-through levels. Accordingly, it is difficult to forecast display and search revenue accurately. In addition, our expense levels are based in part on expectations of future revenue, including occasional guaranteed minimum payments to our Affiliates in connection with search and/or display advertising, and are fixed over the short-term in some categories. The state of the global economy, growth rate of the online advertising market, and availability of capital has impacted and could further impact the advertising spending patterns of our existing and potential advertisers. Any reduction in spending by, or loss of, existing or potential advertisers would negatively impact our revenue and operating results. Further, we may be unable to adjust our expenses and capital expenditures quickly enough to compensate for any unexpected revenue shortfall.

If we do not manage our operating expenses effectively, our profitability could decline.

We plan to continue to manage costs to better and more efficiently manage our business. However, our operating expenses might increase as we expand our operations in areas of desired growth, continue to develop and extend the Yahoo brand, fund product development, build or expand data centers, acquire additional office space, and continue to make talent acquisitions and to acquire and integrate complementary businesses and technologies. If our expenses increase at a greater pace than our revenue, or if we fail to effectively manage costs, our profitability will decline.

If we are unable to provide innovative search experiences and other products and services that generate significant traffic to our Websites, our business could be harmed, causing our revenue to decline.

Internet search is characterized by rapidly changing technology, significant competition, evolving industry standards, and frequent product and service enhancements. Even though we have substantially completed the transition to Microsoft’s platform, we still need to continue to invest and innovate to improve our users’ search experience to continue to attract, retain, and expand our user base and paid search advertiser base. We also need to continue to invest in and innovate on the mobile search experience. Pursuant to the Search Agreement with Microsoft, we are also dependent on Microsoft to continue to invest and innovate to maintain and improve its algorithmic and paid search services.

We also generate revenue through other online products and services, such as Yahoo Mail, and continue to innovate the products and services that we offer. The research and development of new, technologically advanced products is a complex process that requires significant levels of innovation and investment, as well as accurate anticipation of technology, market and consumer trends. If we are unable to provide innovative products and services which gain user acceptance and generate significant traffic to our Websites, our business could be harmed, causing our revenue to decline.

Risks associated with our Search Agreement with Microsoft may adversely affect our business and operating results.

Under our Search Agreement with Microsoft, Microsoft is the exclusive algorithmic and paid search services provider on Yahoo Properties and non-exclusive provider of such services on Affiliate sites for the transitioned markets. Approximately 31 percent and 36 percent of our revenue for 2013 and the three months ended March 31, 2014, respectively, were attributable to the Search Agreement. Our business and operating results would be adversely affected by a significant decline in or loss of this revenue.

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Implementation of our Search Agreement with Microsoft commenced on February 23, 2010. We have completed the transition of our algorithmic search platform to the Microsoft platform and have substantially completed transition of paid search.

In 2013, the Company and Microsoft engaged in litigation regarding the timing of the transition of paid search in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Although the transition of paid search in Taiwan and Hong Kong was completed in December 2013, Microsoft could seek recovery of its costs and damages related to the litigation.

Pursuant to the Search Agreement with Microsoft, to maintain and grow search revenue, we are dependent on Microsoft continuing to invest and innovate to maintain and improve its algorithmic and paid search services and to be competitive with other search providers. If Microsoft fails to do this, our revenue and profitability could decline and our ability to maintain and expand our relationships with Affiliates for search and paid search advertising could be negatively impacted. Further, our competitors may continue to increase revenue, profitability, and market share at a higher rate than we do.

As mobile advertising continues to evolve and people increasingly access our products via mobile devices rather than PCs, our financial results may be adversely impacted if our mobile offerings are not widely adopted by users, advertisers and device manufacturers or if we do not generate adequate revenue from our mobile offerings.

The number of people who access the Internet through mobile devices rather than a PC, including mobile telephones, smartphones and tablets, is increasing and will likely continue to increase dramatically. Approximately half of our monthly users are now joining us on mobile. In addition, search queries are increasingly being undertaken through mobile devices. We expect our ability to grow advertising revenue will become increasingly dependent on our ability to generate revenue from ads displayed on mobile devices.

A key element of our strategy is focusing on mobile devices and we expect to continue to devote significant resources to the creation and support of developing new and innovative mobile products and services. However, if our new mobile products and services, including new forms of Internet advertising for mobile devices, are not more attractive and successful in attracting and retaining users, advertisers and device manufacturers than those of our competitors and fail to generate and grow revenue, our operating and financial results will be adversely impacted.

To the extent that an access provider or device manufacturer enters into a distribution arrangement with one of our competitors, or as our competitors design, develop, or acquire control of alternative devices or their operating systems, we face an increased risk that our users will favor the services or properties of that competitor. We are dependent on the interoperability of our products and services with mobile operating systems we do not control. The manufacturer or access provider might promote a competitor’s services or might impair users’ access to our services by blocking access through their devices or by not making our services or apps available in a readily-discoverable manner on their devices. If distributors impair access to or refuse to distribute our services or apps, then our user engagement and revenue could decline.

If we are unable to license or acquire compelling content and services at reasonable cost or if we do not develop or commission compelling content of our own, the number of users of our services may not grow as anticipated, or may decline, or users’ level of engagement with our services may decline, all or any of which could harm our operating results.

Our future success depends in part on our ability to aggregate compelling content and deliver that content through our online properties. We license from third parties much of the content and services on our online properties, such as news items, stock quotes, weather reports, video, and maps. We believe that users will increasingly demand high-quality content and services. We may need to make substantial payments to third parties from whom we license or acquire such content or services. Our ability to maintain and build relationships with such third-party providers is critical to our success. In addition, as users increasingly access the Internet via mobile and other alternative devices, we may need to enter into amended agreements with existing third-party providers to cover the new devices. We may be unable to enter into new, or preserve existing, relationships with the third-parties whose content or services we seek to obtain. In addition, as competition for compelling content increases both domestically and internationally, our third-party providers may increase the prices at which they offer their content and services to us, and potential providers may not offer their content or services to us at all, or may offer them on terms that are not agreeable to us. An increase in the prices charged to us by third-party providers could harm our operating results and financial condition. Further, because many of our content and services licenses with third parties are non-exclusive, other media providers may be able to offer similar or identical content. This increases the importance of our ability to deliver compelling editorial content and personalization of this content for users in order to differentiate Yahoo from other businesses. If we are unable to license or acquire compelling content at reasonable cost, if other companies distribute content or services that are similar to or the same as that provided by us, or if we do not develop or commission compelling editorial content or personalization services, the number of users of our services may not grow as anticipated, or may decline, or users’ level of engagement with our services may decline, all or any of which could harm our operating results.

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Acquisitions and strategic investments could result in adverse impacts on our operations and in unanticipated liabilities.

We have acquired, and have made strategic investments in, a number of companies (including through joint ventures) in the past, and we expect to make additional acquisitions and strategic investments in the future. Such transactions may result in dilutive issuances of our equity securities, use of our cash resources, and incurrence of debt and amortization expenses related to intangible assets. Our acquisitions and strategic investments to date were accompanied by a number of risks, including:

• the difficulty of assimilating the operations and personnel of acquired companies into our operations;

• the potential disruption of our ongoing business and distraction of management;

• the incurrence of additional operating losses and operating expenses of the businesses we acquired or in which we invested;

• the difficulty of integrating acquired technology and rights into our services and unanticipated expenses related to such integration;

• the failure to successfully further develop an acquired business or technology and any resulting impairment of amounts currently capitalized as intangible assets;

• the failure of strategic investments to perform as expected or to meet financial projections;

• the potential for patent and trademark infringement and data privacy and security claims against the acquired companies, or companies in which we have invested;

• litigation or other claims in connection with acquisitions, acquired companies, or companies in which we have invested;

• the impairment or loss of relationships with customers and partners of the companies we acquired or in which we invested or with our customers and partners as a result of the integration of acquired operations;

• the impairment of relationships with, or failure to retain, employees of acquired companies or our existing employees as a result of integration of new personnel;

• our lack of, or limitations on our, control over the operations of our joint venture companies;

• the difficulty of integrating operations, systems, and controls as a result of cultural, regulatory, systems, and operational differences;

• in the case of foreign acquisitions and investments, the impact of particular economic, tax, currency, political, legal and regulatory risks associated with specific countries; and

• the impact of known potential liabilities or liabilities that may be unknown, including as a result of inadequate internal controls, associated with the companies we acquired or in which we invested.

We are likely to experience similar risks in connection with our future acquisitions and strategic investments. Our failure to be successful in addressing these risks or other problems encountered in connection with our past or future acquisitions and strategic investments could cause us to fail to realize the anticipated benefits of such acquisitions or investments, incur unanticipated liabilities, and harm our business generally.

We may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill, amortizable intangible assets, investments in equity interests, including investments held by our equity method investees, or other investments become impaired.

We are required under generally accepted accounting principles to test goodwill for impairment at least annually and to review our amortizable intangible assets and investments in equity interests, including investments held by our equity method investees, for impairment when events or changes in circumstance indicate the carrying value may not be recoverable. Factors that could lead to impairment of goodwill and amortizable intangible assets (including goodwill or assets acquired via acquisitions) include significant adverse changes in the business climate and actual or projected operating results (affecting our company as a whole or affecting any particular reporting unit) and declines in the financial condition of our business. Factors that could lead to impairment of investments in equity interests include a prolonged period of decline in the stock price or operating performance of, or an announcement of adverse changes or events by, the companies in which we invested or the investments held by those companies. Factors that could lead to an impairment of U.S. government securities, which constitute a significant portion of our assets, include any downgrade of U.S. government debt or concern about the creditworthiness of the U.S. government. We have recorded and may be required in the future

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to record additional charges to earnings if our goodwill, amortizable intangible assets, investments in equity interests, including investments held by our equity investees, or other investments become impaired. Any such charge would adversely impact our financial results.

Fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates may adversely affect our operating results and financial condition.

Revenue generated and expenses incurred by our international subsidiaries and equity method investees are often denominated in the currencies of the local countries. As a result, our consolidated U.S. dollar financial statements are subject to fluctuations due to changes in exchange rates as the financial results of our international subsidiaries and equity method investees are translated from local currencies into U.S. dollars. Our financial results are also subject to changes in exchange rates that impact the settlement of transactions in non-local currencies. The carrying values of our equity investments in our equity investees are also subject to fluctuations in the exchange rates of foreign currencies.

We use derivative instruments, such as foreign currency forward contracts, to partially offset certain exposures to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates. The use of such instruments may not offset any, or more than a portion, of the adverse financial effects of unfavorable movements in foreign currency exchange rates. Any losses on these instruments that we experience may adversely impact our financial results, cash flows and financial condition. Further, we hedge a portion of our net investment in Yahoo Japan with currency forward contracts. If the Japanese yen appreciated at maturity beyond the forward contract execution rates, we would be required to settle the contract by making a cash payment which could be material and could adversely impact our cash flows and financial condition. See Part I, Item 3—“Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk” of this Quarterly Report.

Our business depends on a strong brand, and failing to maintain or enhance the Yahoo brands in a cost-effective manner could harm our operating results.

Maintaining and enhancing our brands is an important aspect of our efforts to attract and expand our user, advertiser, and Affiliate base. We believe that the importance of brand recognition will increase due to the relatively low barriers to entry in certain portions of the Internet market. Maintaining and enhancing our brands will depend largely on our ability to provide high-quality, innovative products and services, which we might not do successfully. We have spent and expect to spend considerable money and resources on the establishment and maintenance of our brands, as well as advertising, marketing, and other brand-building efforts to preserve and enhance consumer awareness of our brands. Our brands may be negatively impacted by a number of factors such as service outages, product malfunctions, data protection and security issues, exploitation of our trademarks by others without permission, and poor presentation or integration of our search marketing offerings by Affiliates on their sites or in their software and services.

Further, while we attempt to ensure that the quality of our brands is maintained by our licensees, our licensees might take actions that could impair the value of our brands, our proprietary rights, or the reputation of our products and media properties. If we are unable to maintain or enhance our brands in a cost-effective manner, or if we incur excessive expenses in these efforts, our business, operating results and financial condition could be harmed.

We are regularly involved in claims, suits, government investigations, and other proceedings that may result in adverse outcomes.

We are regularly involved in claims, suits, government investigations, and proceedings arising from the ordinary course of our business, including actions with respect to intellectual property claims, privacy, consumer protection, information security, data protection or law enforcement matters, tax matters, labor and employment claims, commercial claims, as well as actions involving content generated by our users, stockholder derivative actions, purported class action lawsuits, and other matters. Such claims, suits, government investigations, and proceedings are inherently uncertain and their results cannot be predicted with certainty. Regardless of the outcome, such legal proceedings can have an adverse impact on us because of legal costs, diversion of management and other personnel, and other factors. In addition, it is possible that a resolution of one or more such proceedings could result in reputational harm, liability, penalties, or sanctions, as well as judgments, consent decrees, or orders preventing us from offering certain features, functionalities, products, or services, or requiring a change in our business practices, products or technologies, which could in the future materially and adversely affect our business, operating results, and financial condition. See Note 12—“Commitments and Contingencies” in the Notes to our condensed consolidated financial statements.

On May 15, 2013, the Superior Court of Justice for the Federal District of Mexico reversed a judgment of U.S. $2.75 billion that had been entered against us and our subsidiary, Yahoo! Mexico, in a lawsuit brought by plaintiffs Worldwide Directories S.A. de C.V. and Ideas Interactivas, S.A. de C.V. The plaintiffs have appealed. We believe the plaintiffs’ claims are without legal or factual merit. We do not believe that it is probable the judgment will be reinstated on appeal, however we cannot predict the timing of a decision or assure the ultimate outcome of the pending or further appeals. If we are ultimately required to pay all or a significant portion of the judgment, together with any potential additional damages, interests and costs, it would have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows. We will also be required to record an accrual for the judgment if we should determine in the future that it is probable that we will be required to pay the judgment.

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Our intellectual property rights are valuable, and any failure or inability to sufficiently protect them could harm our business and our operating results.

We create, own, and maintain a wide array of copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade dress, trade secrets, rights to domain names and other intellectual property assets which we believe are collectively among our most valuable assets. We seek to protect our intellectual property assets through patent, copyright, trade secret, trademark, and other laws of the U.S. and other countries of the world, and through contractual provisions. However, the efforts we have taken to protect our intellectual property and proprietary rights might not be sufficient or effective at stopping unauthorized use of those rights. Protection of the distinctive elements of Yahoo might not always be available under copyright law or trademark law, or we might not discover or determine the full extent of any unauthorized use of our copyrights and trademarks in order to protect our rights. In addition, effective trademark, patent, copyright, and trade secret protection might not be available or cost-effective in every country in which our products and media properties are distributed or made available through the Internet. Changes in patent law, such as changes in the law regarding patentable subject matter, could also impact our ability to obtain patent protection for our innovations. In particular, recent amendments to the U.S. patent law may affect our ability to protect our innovations and defend against claims of patent infringement. Further, given the costs of obtaining patent protection, we might choose not to protect (or not to protect in some jurisdictions) certain innovations that later turn out to be important. There is also a risk that the scope of protection under our patents may not be sufficient in some cases or that existing patents may be deemed invalid or unenforceable. To help maintain our trade secrets, we have entered into confidentiality agreements with most of our employees and contractors, and confidentiality agreements with many of the parties with whom we conduct business, in order to limit access to and disclosure of our proprietary information. If these confidentiality agreements are breached it could compromise our trade secrets and cause us to lose any competitive advantage provided by those trade secrets.

If we are unable to protect our proprietary rights from unauthorized use, the value of our intellectual property assets may be reduced. In addition, protecting our intellectual property and other proprietary rights is expensive and time consuming. Any increase in the unauthorized use of our intellectual property could make it more expensive to do business and consequently harm our operating results.

We are, and may in the future be, subject to intellectual property infringement or other third-party claims, which are costly to defend, could result in significant damage awards, and could limit our ability to provide certain content or use certain technologies in the future.

Internet, technology, media, and patent holding companies often possess a significant number of patents. Further, many of these companies and other parties are actively developing or purchasing search, indexing, electronic commerce, and other Internet-related technologies, as well as a variety of online business models and methods.

We believe that these parties will continue to take steps such as seeking patent protection to protect these technologies. In addition, patent holding companies may continue to seek to monetize patents they have purchased or otherwise obtained. As a result, disputes regarding the ownership of technologies and rights associated with online businesses are likely to continue to arise in the future. From time to time, parties assert patent infringement claims against us. Currently, we are engaged in a number of lawsuits regarding patent issues and have been notified of a number of other potential disputes.

In addition to patent claims, third parties have asserted, and are likely in the future to assert, claims against us alleging infringement of copyrights, trademark rights, trade secret rights or other proprietary rights, or alleging unfair competition, violation of federal or state statutes or other claims, including alleged violation of international statutory and common law. In addition, third parties have made, and may continue to make, infringement and related claims against us over the display of content or search results triggered by search terms, including the display of advertising, that include trademark terms.

As we expand our business and develop new technologies, products and services, we may become increasingly subject to intellectual property infringement and other claims, including those that may arise under international laws. In the event that there is a determination that we have infringed third-party proprietary rights such as patents, copyrights, trademark rights, trade secret rights, or other third-party rights such as publicity and privacy rights, we could incur substantial monetary liability, or be required to enter into costly royalty or licensing agreements or be prevented from using such rights, which could require us to change our business practices in the future, hinder us from offering certain features, functionalities, products or services, require us to develop non-infringing products or technologies, and limit our ability to compete effectively. We may also incur substantial expenses in defending against third-party claims regardless of the merit of such claims. In addition, many of our agreements with our customers or Affiliates require us to indemnify them for some types of third-party intellectual property infringement claims, which could increase our costs in defending such claims and our damages. Furthermore, such customers and Affiliates may discontinue the use of our products, services, and technologies either as a result of injunctions or otherwise. The occurrence of any of these results could harm our brands or have an adverse effect on our business, financial position, operating results, and cash flows.

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A variety of new and existing U.S. and foreign government laws and regulations could subject us to claims, judgments, monetary liabilities and other remedies, and to limitations on our business practices.

We are subject to numerous U.S. and foreign laws and regulations covering a wide variety of subject matters. New laws and regulations, changes in existing laws and regulations or the interpretation of them, our introduction of new products, or an extension of our business into new areas, could increase our future compliance costs, make our products and services less attractive to our users, or cause us to change or limit our business practices. We may incur substantial expenses to comply with laws and regulations or defend against a claim that we have not complied with them. Further, any failure on our part to comply with any relevant laws or regulations may subject us to significant civil or criminal liabilities, penalties, and negative publicity.

The application of existing domestic and international laws and regulations to us relating to issues such as user privacy and data protection, security, defamation, pricing, advertising, taxation, gambling, sweepstakes, promotions, billing, real estate, consumer protection, accessibility, content regulation, quality of services, law enforcement demands, telecommunications, mobile, television, and intellectual property ownership and infringement in many instances is unclear or unsettled. Further, the application to us or our subsidiaries of existing laws regulating or requiring licenses for certain businesses of our advertisers can be unclear. U.S. export control laws and regulations also impose requirements and restrictions on exports to certain nations and persons and on our business. Internationally, we may also be subject to laws regulating our activities in foreign countries and to foreign laws and regulations that are inconsistent from country to country.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) is intended, in part, to limit the liability of eligible online service providers for caching, hosting, listing or linking to, third-party Websites or user content that include materials that give rise to copyright infringement. Portions of the Communications Decency Act (“CDA”) are intended to provide statutory protections to online service providers who distribute third-party content. We rely on the protections provided by both the DMCA and the CDA in conducting our business, and may be adversely impacted by future legislation and future judicial decisions altering these safe harbors or if international jurisdictions refuse to apply similar protections.

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and rule, as amended in December 2012 (“COPPA”), impose restrictions on the ability of online services to collect some types of information from children under the age of 13. In addition, Providing Resources, Officers, and Technology to Eradicate Cyber Threats to Our Children Act of 2008 (“PROTECT”) requires online service providers to report evidence of violations of federal child pornography laws under certain circumstances. COPPA and PROTECT currently impose restrictions and requirements on our business, and other federal, state or international laws and legislative efforts designed to protect children on the Internet may impose additional requirements on us.

Changes in regulations or user concerns regarding privacy and protection of user data, or any failure to comply with such laws, could adversely affect our business.

Federal, state, and international laws and regulations govern the collection, use, retention, disclosure, sharing and security of data that we receive from and about our users. The use of consumer data by online service providers and advertising networks is a topic of active interest among federal, state, and international regulatory bodies, and the regulatory environment is unsettled. Many states have passed laws requiring notification to users where there is a security breach for personal data, such as California’s Information Practices Act. We face similar risks in international markets where our products and services are offered. Any failure, or perceived failure, by us to comply with or make effective modifications to our policies, or to comply with any federal, state, or international privacy, data-retention or data-protection-related laws, regulations, orders or industry self-regulatory principles could result in proceedings or actions against us by governmental entities or others, a loss of user confidence, damage to the Yahoo brands, and a loss of users, advertising partners, or Affiliates, any of which could potentially have an adverse effect on our business.

In addition, various federal, state and foreign legislative or regulatory bodies may enact new or additional laws and regulations concerning privacy, data-retention and data-protection issues, including laws or regulations mandating disclosure to domestic or international law enforcement bodies, which could adversely impact our business, our brand or our reputation with users. For example, some countries are considering laws mandating that user data regarding users in their country be maintained in their country. Having to maintain local data centers in individual countries could increase our operating costs significantly. The interpretation and application of privacy, data protection and data retention laws and regulations are often uncertain and in flux in the U.S. and internationally. These laws may be interpreted and applied inconsistently from country to country and inconsistently with our current policies and practices, complicating long-range business planning decisions. If privacy, data protection or data retention laws are interpreted and applied in a manner that is inconsistent with our current policies and practices we may be fined or ordered to change our business practices in a manner that adversely impacts our operating results. Complying with these varying international requirements could cause us to incur substantial costs or require us to change our business practices in a manner adverse to our business and operating results.

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If our security measures are breached, our products and services may be perceived as not being secure, users and customers may curtail or stop using our products and services, and we may incur significant legal and financial exposure.

Our products and services involve the storage and transmission of Yahoo’s users’ and customers’ personal and proprietary information in our facilities and on our equipment, networks and corporate systems. Security breaches expose us to a risk of loss of this information, litigation, remediation costs, increased costs for security measures, loss of revenue, damage to our reputation, and potential liability. Security breaches or unauthorized access have resulted in and may in the future result in a combination of significant legal and financial exposure, increased remediation and other costs, damage to our reputation and a loss of confidence in the security of our products, services and networks that could have an adverse effect on our business. We take steps to prevent unauthorized access to our corporate systems, however, because the techniques used to obtain unauthorized access, disable or degrade service, or sabotage systems change frequently or may be designed to remain dormant until a triggering event, we may be unable to anticipate these techniques or implement adequate preventative measures. If an actual or perceived breach of our security occurs, the market perception of the effectiveness of our security measures could be harmed and we could lose users and customers.

Interruptions, delays, or failures in the provision of our services could damage our reputation and harm our operating results.

Delays or disruptions to our service, or the loss or compromise of data, could result from a variety of causes, including the following:

• Our operations are susceptible to outages and interruptions due to fire, flood, earthquake, tsunami, other natural disasters, power loss, equipment or telecommunications failures, cyber attacks, terrorist attacks, political or social unrest, and other events over which we have little or no control. We do not have multiple site capacity for all of our services and some of our systems are not fully redundant in the event of delays or disruptions to service, so some data or systems may not be fully recoverable after such events.

• The systems through which we provide our products and services are highly technical, complex, and interdependent. Design errors might exist in these systems, or might be introduced when we make modifications, which might cause service malfunctions or require services to be taken offline while corrective responses are developed.

• Despite our implementation of network security measures, our servers are vulnerable to computer viruses, malware, worms, hacking, physical and electronic break-ins, router disruption, sabotage or espionage, and other disruptions from unauthorized access and tampering, as well as coordinated denial-of-service attacks. We may not be in a position to promptly address attacks or to implement adequate preventative measures if we are unable to immediately detect such attacks. Such events could result in large expenditures to investigate or remediate, to recover data, to repair or replace networks or information systems, including changes to security measures, to deploy additional personnel, to defend litigation or to protect against similar future events, and may cause damage to our reputation or loss of revenue.

• We rely on third-party providers over which we have little or no control for our principal Internet connections and co-location of a significant portion of our data servers, as well as for our payment processing capabilities and key components or features of certain of our products and services. Any disruption of the services they provide us or any failure of these third-party providers to handle higher volumes of use could, in turn, cause delays or disruptions in our services and loss of revenue. In addition, if our agreements with these third-party providers are terminated for any reason, we might not have a readily available alternative.

Prolonged delays or disruptions to our service could result in a loss of users, damage to our brands, legal costs or liability, and harm to our operating results.

Our international operations expose us to additional risks that could harm our business, operating results, and financial condition.

In addition to uncertainty about our ability to continue to generate revenue from our foreign operations and expand our international market position, there are additional risks inherent in doing business internationally (including through our international joint ventures), including:

• tariffs, trade barriers, customs classifications and changes in trade regulations;

• difficulties in developing, staffing, and simultaneously managing a large number of varying foreign operations as a result of distance, language, and cultural differences;

• stringent local labor laws and regulations;

• longer payment cycles;

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• credit risk and higher levels of payment fraud;

• profit repatriation restrictions and foreign currency exchange restrictions;

• political or social unrest, economic instability, repression, or human rights issues;

• geopolitical events, including natural disasters, acts of war and terrorism;

• import or export regulations;

• compliance with U.S. laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and local laws prohibiting bribery and corrupt payments to government officials;

• antitrust and competition regulations;

• potentially adverse tax developments;

• seasonal volatility in business activity and local economic conditions;

• economic uncertainties relating to volatility in emerging markets and global economic uncertainty;

• laws, regulations, licensing requirements, and business practices that favor local competitors or prohibit foreign ownership or investments;

• different, uncertain or more stringent user protection, content, data protection, privacy, intellectual property and other laws; and

• risks related to other government regulation, required compliance with local laws or lack of legal precedent.

We are subject to numerous and sometimes conflicting U.S. and foreign laws and regulations which increase our cost of doing business. Violations of these complex laws and regulations that apply to our international operations could result in damage awards, fines, criminal actions, sanctions, or penalties against us, our officers or our employees, prohibitions on the conduct of our business and our ability to offer products and services, and damage to our reputation. Although we have implemented policies and procedures designed to promote compliance with these laws, there can be no assurance that our employees, contractors, or agents will not violate our policies. These risks inherent in our international operations and expansion increase our costs of doing business internationally and could result in harm to our business, operating results, and financial condition.

We may be subject to legal liability associated with providing online services or content.

We host and provide a wide variety of services and technology products that enable and encourage individuals and businesses to exchange information; upload or otherwise generate photos, videos, text, and other content; advertise products and services; conduct business; and engage in various online activities both domestically and internationally. The law relating to the liability of providers of online services and products for activities of their users is currently unsettled both within the U.S. and internationally. As a publisher and producer of original content, we may be subject to claims such as copyright, libel, defamation or improper use of publicity rights, as well as other infringement claims such as plagiarism. Claims have been threatened and brought against us for defamation, negligence, breaches of contract, plagiarism, copyright and trademark infringement, unfair competition, unlawful activity, tort, including personal injury, fraud, or other theories based on the nature and content of information which we publish or to which we provide links or that may be posted online or generated by us or by third parties, including our users. In addition, we have been and may again in the future be subject to domestic or international actions alleging that certain content we have generated or third-party content that we have made available within our services violates laws in domestic and international jurisdictions. We arrange for the distribution of third-party advertisements to third-party publishers and advertising networks, and we offer third-party products, services, or content, such as stock quotes and trading information, under the Yahoo brand or via distribution on Yahoo Properties. We may be subject to claims concerning these products, services, or content by virtue of our involvement in marketing, branding, broadcasting, or providing access to them, even if we do not ourselves host, operate, provide, or provide access to these products, services, or content. While our agreements with respect to these products, services, and content may provide that we will be indemnified against such liabilities, the ability to receive such indemnification may be disputed, could result in substantial costs to enforce or defend, and depends on the financial resources of the other party to the agreement, and any amounts received might not be adequate to cover our liabilities or the costs associated with defense of such proceedings. Defense of any such actions could be costly and involve significant time and attention of our management and other resources, may result in monetary liabilities or penalties, and may require us to change our business in an adverse manner.

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It is also possible that if any information provided directly by us contains errors or is otherwise wrongfully provided to users, third parties could make claims against us. For example, we offer Web-based e-mail services, which expose us to potential risks, such as liabilities or claims, by our users and third parties, resulting from unsolicited e-mail, lost or misdirected messages, illegal or fraudulent use of e-mail, alleged violations of policies, property interests, or privacy protections, including civil or criminal laws, or interruptions or delays in e-mail service. We may also face purported consumer class actions or state actions relating to our online services, including our fee-based services (particularly in connection with any decision to discontinue a fee-based service). In addition, our customers, third parties, or government entities may assert claims or actions against us if our online services or technologies are used to spread or facilitate malicious or harmful code or applications.

Investigating and defending these types of claims are expensive, even if the claims are without merit or do not ultimately result in liability, and could subject us to significant monetary liability or cause a change in business practices that could negatively impact our ability to compete.

If we are unable to recruit, hire, motivate, and retain key personnel, we may not be able to execute our business plan.

Our business is dependent on our ability to recruit, hire, motivate, and retain talented, highly skilled personnel. Achieving this objective may be difficult due to many factors, including the intense competition for such highly skilled personnel in the San Francisco Bay Area and other metropolitan areas where our offices are located; fluctuations in global economic and industry conditions; competitors’ hiring practices; and the effectiveness of our compensation programs. If we do not succeed in retaining and motivating our existing key employees, and in attracting new key personnel, we may be unable to meet our business plan and as a result, our revenue and profitability may decline.

Certain of our metrics are subject to inherent challenges in measurement, and real or perceived inaccuracies in such metrics may harm our reputation and negatively affect our business.

We present key metrics such as number of users, number of Ads Sold, number of Paid Clicks, Price-per-Click and Price-per-Ad that are calculated using internal company data. We periodically review and refine our methodologies for monitoring, gathering, and calculating these metrics. Based on this process, from time to time we update our methodologies.

While our metrics are based on what we believe to be reasonable measurements and methodologies, there are inherent challenges in deriving our metrics across large online and mobile populations around the world. In addition, our user metrics may differ from estimates published by third parties or from similar metrics of our competitors due to differences in methodology.

If advertisers or publishers do not perceive our metrics to be accurate, or if we discover material inaccuracies in our metrics, it could negatively affect our reputation, business and financial results.

Any failure to scale and adapt our existing technology architecture to manage expansion of user-facing services and to respond to rapid technological change could adversely affect our business.

As some of the most visited sites on the Internet, Yahoo Properties deliver a significant number of products, services, page views, and advertising impressions to users around the world. We expect our products and services to continue to expand and change significantly and rapidly in the future to accommodate new technologies, new devices, new Internet advertising solutions, and new means of content delivery.

In addition, widespread adoption of new Internet, networking or telecommunications technologies, or other technological changes, could require substantial expenditures to modify or adapt our services or infrastructure. The technology architectures and platforms utilized for our services are highly complex and may not provide satisfactory security features or support in the future, as usage increases and products and services expand, change, and become more complex. In the future, we may make additional changes to our existing, or move to completely new, architectures, platforms and systems, such as the changes we have made in response to the increased use of tablets and smartphones. Such changes may be technologically challenging to develop and implement, may take time to test and deploy, may cause us to incur substantial costs or data loss, and may cause changes, delays or interruptions in service. These changes, delays, or interruptions in our service may cause our users, Affiliates and other advertising platform participants to become dissatisfied with our service or to move to competing providers or seek remedial actions or compensation. Further, to the extent that demands for our services increase, we will need to expand our infrastructure, including the capacity of our hardware servers and the sophistication of our software. This expansion is likely to be expensive and complex and require additional technical expertise. As we acquire users who rely upon us for a wide variety of services, it becomes more technologically complex and costly to retrieve, store, and integrate data that will enable us to track each user’s preferences. Any difficulties experienced in adapting our architectures, platforms and infrastructure to accommodate increased traffic, to store user data, and track user preferences, together with the associated costs and potential loss of traffic, could harm our operating results, cash flows from operations, and financial condition.

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We rely on third parties to provide the technologies necessary to deliver content, advertising, and services to our users, and any change in the licensing terms, costs, availability, or acceptance of these formats and technologies could adversely affect our business.

We rely on third parties to provide the technologies that we use to deliver content, advertising, and services to our users. There can be no assurance that these providers will continue to license their technologies or intellectual property to us on reasonable terms, or at all. Providers may change the fees they charge users or otherwise change their business model in a manner that slows the widespread acceptance of their technologies. In order for our services to be successful, there must be a large base of users of the technologies necessary to deliver our content, advertising, and services. We have limited or no control over the availability or acceptance of those technologies, and any change in the licensing terms, costs, availability, or user acceptance of these technologies could adversely affect our business.

Our business depends on continued and unimpeded access to the Internet by us and our users. Internet access providers may be able to block, degrade, or charge for access to certain of our products and services, which could lead to additional expenses and the loss of users and advertisers.

Our products and services depend on the ability of our users to access the Internet, and certain of our products require significant bandwidth to work effectively. Currently, this access is provided by companies that have significant market power in the broadband and internet access marketplace, including incumbent telephone companies, cable companies, mobile communications companies, and government-owned service providers. Some of these providers have taken, or have stated that they may take, measures that could degrade, disrupt, or increase the cost of user access to certain of our products by restricting or prohibiting the use of their infrastructure to support or facilitate our offerings, or by charging increased fees to us or our users to provide our offerings. Such interference could result in a loss of existing users and advertisers, and increased costs, and could impair our ability to attract new users and advertisers, thereby harming our revenues and growth.

If we are unable to attract, sustain, and renew distribution arrangements on favorable terms, our revenue may decline.

We enter into distribution arrangements with third parties such as operators of third-party Websites, online networks, software companies, electronics companies, computer manufacturers, Internet service providers and others to promote or supply our services to their users. For example:

• We maintain search and display advertising relationships with Affiliate sites, which integrate our advertising offerings into their Websites.

• We enter into distribution alliances with Internet service providers (including providers of cable and broadband Internet access) and software distributors to promote our services to their users.

• We enter into agreements with mobile phone, tablet, television, and other device manufacturers, electronics companies and carriers to promote our software and services on their devices.

In some markets, we depend on a limited number of distribution arrangements for a significant percentage of our user activity. A failure by our distributors to attract or retain their user bases would negatively impact our user activity and, in turn, reduce our revenue. In some cases, device manufacturers may be unwilling to pay fees to Yahoo in order to distribute Yahoo services or may be unwilling to distribute Yahoo services.

In the future, as new methods for accessing the Internet and our services become available, including through alternative devices, we may need to enter into amended distribution agreements with existing access providers, distributors, and manufacturers to cover the new devices and new arrangements. We face a risk that existing and potential new access providers, distributors, and manufacturers may decide not to offer distribution of our services on reasonable terms, or at all.

Distribution agreements often involve revenue sharing. Over time competition to enter into distribution arrangements may cause our traffic acquisition costs to increase. In some cases, we guarantee distributors a minimum level of revenue and, as a result, run a risk that the distributors’ performance (in terms of ad impressions, toolbar installations, etc.) might not be sufficient to otherwise earn their minimum payments. In other cases, we agree that if the distributor does not realize specified minimum revenue we will adjust the distributor’s revenue-share percentage or provide make-whole arrangements.

Some of our distribution agreements are not exclusive, have a short term, are terminable at will, or are subject to early termination provisions. The loss of distributors, increased distribution costs, or the renewal of distribution agreements on significantly less favorable terms may cause our revenue to decline.

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Technologies, tools, software, and applications could block our advertisements, impair our ability to deliver interest-based advertising, or shift the location in which advertising appears, which could harm our operating results.

Technologies, tools, software, and applications (including new and enhanced Web browsers) have been developed and are likely to continue to be developed that can block or allow users to opt out of display, search, and interest-based advertising and content, delete or block the cookies used to deliver such advertising, or shift the location in which advertising appears on pages so that our advertisements do not show up in the most monetizable places on our pages or are obscured. Most of our revenue is derived from fees paid by advertisers in connection with the display of graphical and non-graphical advertisements or clicks on search advertisements on Web pages. As a result, the adoption of such technologies, tools, software, and applications could reduce the number of display and search advertisements that we are able to deliver and/or our ability to deliver interest-based advertising and this, in turn, could reduce our advertising revenue and operating results.

Any failure to manage expansion and changes to our business could adversely affect our operating results.

If we are unable to effectively manage a large and geographically dispersed group of employees or to anticipate our future growth and personnel needs, our business may be adversely affected. As we expand our business, we must also expand and adapt our operational infrastructure. Our business relies on data systems, billing systems, and financial reporting and control systems, among others. All of these systems have become increasingly complex in the recent past due to the growing complexity of our business, acquisitions of new businesses with different systems, and increased regulation over controls and procedures. To manage our business in a cost-effective manner, we will need to continue to upgrade and improve our data systems, billing systems, and other operational and financial systems, procedures, and controls. In some cases, we are outsourcing administrative functions to lower-cost providers. These upgrades, improvements and outsourcing changes will require a dedication of resources and in some cases are likely to be complex. If we are unable to adapt our systems and put adequate controls in place in a timely manner, our business may be adversely affected. In particular, sustained failures of our billing systems to accommodate increasing numbers of transactions, to accurately bill users and advertisers, or to accurately compensate Affiliates could adversely affect the viability of our business model.

Proprietary document formats may limit the effectiveness of our search technology by preventing our technology from accessing the content of documents in such formats, which could limit the effectiveness of our products and services.

A large amount of information on the Internet is provided in proprietary document formats. These proprietary document formats may limit the effectiveness of search technology by preventing the technology from accessing the content of such documents. The providers of the software applications used to create these documents could engineer the document format to prevent or interfere with the process of indexing the document contents with search technology. This would mean that the document contents would not be included in search results even if the contents were directly relevant to a search. The software providers may also seek to require us to pay them royalties in exchange for giving us the ability to search documents in their format. If the search platform technology we employ is unable to index proprietary format Web documents as effectively as our competitors’ technology, usage of our search services might decline, which could cause our revenue to fall.

We have dedicated resources to provide a variety of premium enhancements to our products and services, which might not prove to be successful in generating significant revenue for us.

We offer fee-based enhancements for many of our free services. The development cycles for these technologies are long and generally require investment by us. We have invested and will continue to invest in premium products and services. Some of these premium products and services might not generate anticipated revenue or might not meet anticipated user adoption rates. We have previously discontinued some non-profitable premium services and may discontinue others. General economic conditions as well as the rapidly evolving competitive landscape may affect users’ willingness to pay for such premium services. If we cannot generate revenue from our premium services that are greater than the cost of providing such services, our operating results could be harmed.

We may have exposure to additional tax liabilities which could negatively impact our income tax provision, net income, and cash flow.

We are subject to income taxes and other taxes in both the U.S. and the foreign jurisdictions in which we currently operate or have historically operated. The determination of our worldwide provision for income taxes and current and deferred tax assets and liabilities requires judgment and estimation. In the ordinary course of our business, there are many transactions and calculations where the ultimate tax determination is uncertain. As a U.S. multinational corporation, we are subject to changing tax laws both within and outside of the U.S. We cannot predict the form or timing of potential legislative changes, but any newly enacted tax law could have a material adverse impact on our tax expense and cash flow. For example, several jurisdictions have sought to increase revenues by imposing new taxes on internet advertising or increasing general business taxes.

We earn a material amount of our operating income from outside the U.S. As of March 31, 2014, we had undistributed foreign earnings of approximately $2.8 billion, principally related to our equity method investment in Yahoo Japan. While we do not currently anticipate repatriating these earnings, any repatriation of funds in foreign jurisdictions to the U.S. could result in higher effective tax rates for us and subject us to significant additional U.S. income tax liabilities.

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We are subject to regular review and audit by both domestic and foreign tax authorities as well as subject to the prospective and retrospective effects of changing tax regulations and legislation. Although we believe our tax estimates are reasonable, the ultimate tax outcome may materially differ from the tax amounts recorded in our condensed consolidated financial statements and may materially affect our income tax provision, net income, or cash flows in the period or periods for which such determination and settlement is made.

Adverse macroeconomic conditions could cause decreases or delays in spending by our advertisers and could harm our ability to generate revenue and our results of operations.

Advertising expenditures tend to be cyclical, reflecting overall economic conditions and budgeting and buying patterns. Since we derive most of our revenue from advertising, adverse macroeconomic conditions have caused, and future adverse macroeconomic conditions could cause, decreases or delays in advertising spending and negatively impact our advertising revenue and short-term ability to grow our revenue. Further, any decreased collectability of accounts receivable or early termination of agreements, whether resulting from customer bankruptcies or otherwise due to adverse macroeconomic conditions, could negatively impact our results of operations.

Our stock price has been volatile historically and may continue to be volatile regardless of our operating performance.

The trading price of our common stock has been and may continue to be subject to broad fluctuations. During the three months ended March 31 2014, the closing sale price of our common stock on the NASDAQ Global Select Market ranged from $34.89 to $41.23 per share and the closing sale price on April 30, 2014 was $35.95 per share. Our stock price may fluctuate in response to a number of events and factors, such as variations in quarterly operating results or announcements of technological innovations, significant transactions, or new features, products or services by us or our competitors; changes in financial estimates and recommendations by securities analysts; the operating and stock price performance of, or other developments involving, other companies that investors may deem comparable to us; trends in our industry; general economic conditions; and the current and anticipated future operating performance and market equity valuation of Alibaba Group (including speculation regarding its initial public offering) and Yahoo Japan Corporation in which we have equity investments, including changes in equity valuation due to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates.

In addition, the stock market in general, and the market prices for companies in our industry, have experienced volatility that often has been unrelated to operating performance. These broad market and industry fluctuations may adversely affect the price of our stock, regardless of our operating performance. A decrease in the market price of our common stock would likely adversely impact the trading price of the 0.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2018 that we issued in November 2013 (the “Notes”). Volatility or a lack of positive performance in our stock price may also adversely affect our ability to retain key employees who have been granted stock options or other stock-based awards. A sustained decline in our stock price and market capitalization could lead to an impairment charge to our long-lived assets.

Delaware statutes and certain provisions in our charter documents could make it more difficult for a third-party to acquire us.

Our Board has the authority to issue up to 10 million shares of preferred stock and to determine the price, rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions, including voting rights, of those shares without any further vote or action by the stockholders. The rights of the holders of our common stock may be subject to, and may be adversely affected by, the rights of the holders of any preferred stock that may be issued in the future. The issuance of preferred stock may have the effect of delaying, deterring or preventing a change in control of Yahoo without further action by the stockholders and may adversely affect the voting and other rights of the holders of our common stock.

Some provisions of our charter documents, including provisions eliminating the ability of stockholders to take action by written consent and limiting the ability of stockholders to raise matters at a meeting of stockholders without giving advance notice, may have the effect of delaying or preventing changes in control or changes in our management, which could have an adverse effect on the market price of our stock and the value of the $1.4375 billion aggregate principal amount of the Notes we issued in November 2013. In addition, our charter documents do not permit cumulative voting, which may make it more difficult for a third-party to gain control of our Board. Further, we are subject to the anti-takeover provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which will prohibit us from engaging in a “business combination” with an “interested stockholder” for a period of three years after the date of the transaction in which the person became an interested stockholder, even if such combination is favored by a majority of stockholders, unless the business combination is approved in a prescribed manner. The application of Section 203 also could have the effect of delaying or preventing a change in control of us.

Any of these provisions could, under certain circumstances, depress the market price of our common stock and the Notes.

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Risks Relating to the Notes

The conditional conversion feature of the Notes, if triggered, may adversely affect our financial condition and operating results.

In the event the conditional conversion feature of the Notes is triggered, holders of Notes will be entitled to convert the Notes at any time during specified periods at their option. If one or more holders elect to convert their Notes, unless we elect to satisfy our conversion obligation by delivering solely shares of our common stock (other than paying cash in lieu of delivering any fractional share), we would be required to settle a portion or all of our conversion obligation through the payment of cash, which could adversely affect our liquidity. In addition, even if holders do not elect to convert their Notes, we could be required under applicable accounting rules to reclassify all or a portion of the outstanding principal of the Notes as a current rather than long-term liability, which would result in a material reduction of our net working capital.

We may not have the ability to raise the funds necessary to settle conversions of the Notes in cash or to repurchase the Notes upon a fundamental change, and our future debt may contain limitations on our ability to pay cash upon conversion or repurchase of the Notes.

Holders of the Notes will have the right to require us to repurchase all or a portion of their Notes upon the occurrence of a fundamental change at a repurchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid special interest, if any. We may not have enough available cash or be able to obtain financing at the time we are required to make repurchases of Notes surrendered therefore, or pay cash with respect to Notes being converted if we elect not to issue shares, which could harm our reputation and affect the trading price of our common stock.

The note hedge and warrant transactions may affect the value of the Notes and our common stock.

In connection with the pricing of the Notes, we entered into note hedge transactions with the option counterparties. The note hedge transactions are generally expected to reduce the potential dilution upon conversion of the Notes and/or offset any cash payments we are required to make in excess of the principal amount of converted Notes, as the case may be. We also entered into warrant transactions with the option counterparties. However, the warrant transactions could separately have a dilutive effect to the extent that the market price per share of our common stock exceeds the applicable strike price of the warrants.

In connection with establishing their initial hedge of the note hedge and warrant transactions, the option counterparties or their respective affiliates have purchased shares of our common stock and/or entered into various derivative transactions with respect to our common stock concurrently with or shortly after the pricing of the Notes. In addition, the option counterparties or their respective affiliates may modify their hedge positions by entering into or unwinding various derivatives with respect to our common stock and/or purchasing or selling our common stock or other securities of ours in secondary market transactions prior to the maturity of the Notes (and are likely to do so during any observation period related to a conversion of Notes or following any repurchase of Notes by us on any fundamental repurchase date or otherwise). This activity could cause or avoid an increase or a decrease in the market price of our common stock or the Notes.

Any adverse change in the rating of the Notes may cause their trading price to decline.

While we did not seek a rating on the Notes, one rating service has rated the Notes. If that rating service announces its intention to put the Notes on credit watch or lowers its rating on the Notes below any rating initially assigned to the Notes, the trading price of the Notes could decline.

The accounting method for convertible debt securities that may be settled in cash, such as the Notes, could have a material effect on our reported financial results.

In May 2008, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued FASB Staff Position No. APB 14-1, Accounting for Convertible Debt Instruments That May Be Settled in Cash Upon Conversion (Including Partial Cash Settlement), which has subsequently been codified as Accounting Standards Codification 470-20, Debt with Conversion and Other Options, which we refer to as ASC 470-20. Under ASC 470-20, an entity must separately account for the liability and equity components of the convertible debt instruments (such as the Notes) that may be settled entirely or partially in cash upon conversion in a manner that reflects the issuer’s economic interest cost. The effect of ASC 470-20 on the accounting for the Notes is that the equity component is required to be included in the additional paid-in capital section of stockholders’ equity on our consolidated balance sheet, and the value of the equity component would be treated as debt discount for purposes of accounting for the debt component of the Notes. As a result, we will be required to record a greater amount of non-cash interest expense in current periods presented as a result of the amortization of the discounted carrying value of the Notes to their face amount over the term of the Notes. We will report lower net income in our financial results because ASC 470-20 will require interest to include the current period’s amortization of the debt discount, which could adversely affect our reported or future financial results, the trading price of our common stock and the trading price of the Notes.

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In addition, under certain circumstances, convertible debt instruments (such as the Notes) that may be settled entirely or partly in cash are currently accounted for utilizing the treasury stock method, the effect of which is that the shares issuable upon conversion of the Notes are not included in the calculation of diluted earnings per share except to the extent that the conversion value of the Notes exceeds their principal amount. Under the treasury stock method, for diluted earnings per share purposes, the transaction is accounted for as if the number of shares of common stock that would be necessary to settle such excess, if we elected to settle such excess in shares, are issued. We cannot be sure that the accounting standards in the future will continue to permit the use of the treasury stock method. If we are unable to use the treasury stock method in accounting for the shares issuable upon conversion of the Notes, then our diluted earnings per share would be adversely affected.

Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds

Share repurchase activity during the three months ended March 31, 2014 was as follows:

Period	Total Number of Shares Purchased (*)		Average Price Paid per Share		Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of a Publicly Announced Program		Approximate Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet be Purchased Under the Program (in 000s) (*)
January 1 — January 31, 2014		4,601,800	$	39.12		4,601,800	$	4,913,108
February 1 — February 28, 2014		4,205,119	$	36.26		4,205,119	$	4,760,624
March 1 — March 31, 2014		3,132,700	$	37.38		3,132,700	$	4,643,532
Total		11,939,619	$	37.65		11,939,619

^(*)  The share repurchases in the three months ended March 31, 2014 were made under our stock repurchase programs announced in May 2012 and November 2013. Our May 2012 repurchase program, which by its terms would have expired in June 2015, was exhausted during the first quarter of 2014. In November 2013, our Board of Directors authorized an additional stock repurchase program with an authorized level of $5 billion. The November 2013 program, according to its terms, will expire in December 2016. Repurchases under the programs may take place in the open market or in privately negotiated transactions, including derivative transactions, and may be made under a Rule 10b5-1 plan.

Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities

None.

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures

Not applicable.

Item 5. Other Information

None.

Item 6. Exhibits

The exhibits listed in the Index to Exhibits (following the signatures page of this Report) are filed with, or incorporated by reference in, this Report.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

	YAHOO! INC.
Dated: May 8, 2014	By:	/s/    MARISSA A. MAYER
		Marissa A. Mayer Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)
Dated: May 8, 2014	By:	/S/    KEN GOLDMAN
		Ken Goldman Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)

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YAHOO! INC.

Index to Exhibits

Exhibit Number	Description
3.1(A)	Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant (previously filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed July 28, 2000 and incorporated herein by reference).
3.1(B)	Certificate of Designation, Preferences and Rights of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock of the Registrant (included as Exhibit A within the Amended and Restated Rights Agreement, dated as of April 1, 2005, by and between the Registrant and Equiserve Trust Company, N.A., as rights agent (previously filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed April 4, 2005 and incorporated herein by reference)).
3.2	Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Registrant (previously filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K/A filed December 20, 2010 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.2(R)+*	Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement for Executives, including the Notice of Grant, under the Yahoo! Inc. 1995 Stock Plan.
10.2(S)+*	Form of Performance Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement for Executives, including the Notice of Grant, under the Yahoo! Inc. 1995 Stock Plan.
10.11+*	Yahoo! Inc. 2014 Executive Incentive Plan.
10.15(C)*	Waiver and Consent Agreement, dated January 23, 2014, by and among the Registrant, Alibaba Group Holding Limited, Softbank Corp., Alipay.com Co., Ltd., APN Ltd., Zhejiang Alibaba E-Commerce Co., Ltd., Jack Ma Yun, Joseph C. Tsai and certain joinder parties.
10.15(D)*	Second Amendment to the Alipay Framework Agreement, dated as of May 3, 2014, by and among the Registrant, Alibaba Group Holding Limited, Softbank Corp., Alipay.com Co., Ltd., APN Ltd., Zhejiang Alibaba E-Commerce Co., Ltd., Jack Ma Yun, Joseph C. Tsai and certain joinder parties.
10.17(I)+*	Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement, including the Notice of Grant, dated February 27, 2014, between the Registrant and Marissa A. Mayer.
10.17(J)+*	Performance Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement, including the Notice of Grant, dated February 27, 2014, between the Registrant and Marissa A. Mayer.
10.17(K)+*	Letter Amendment, dated April 14, 2014, to Performance Stock Option Agreement (Retention Grant), between the Registrant and Marissa A. Mayer.
10.17(L)+*	Letter Amendment, dated April 14, 2014, to Performance Stock Option Agreement (2012 Annual Grant), between the Registrant and Marissa A. Mayer.
10.18(C)+*	Letter Amendment, dated April 14, 2014, to Performance Stock Option Agreement, between the Registrant and Ken Goldman.
10.24+*	Employment Offer Letter, dated May 31, 1999, between the Registrant and Ronald S. Bell.
31.1*	Certificate of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to Securities Exchange Act Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, dated May 8, 2014.
31.2*	Certificate of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to Securities Exchange Act Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, dated May 8, 2014.
32**	Certificate of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to Securities Exchange Act Rules 13a-14(b) and 15d-14(b) and 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, dated May 8, 2014.
101.INS*	XBRL Instance
101.SCH*	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema
101.CAL*	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation
101.DEF*	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition
101.LAB*	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Labels
101.PRE*	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation

* Filed herewith.

** Furnished herewith.

+ Indicates a management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.

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