Altaba - wikipedia Altaba Altaba Inc. Formerly Yahoo ! ( 1995 -- 2017 ) Type Public Traded as NASDAQ : AABA Industry Investment company Founded March 2, 1995 ; 23 years ago ( 1995 - 03 - 02 ) Headquarters New York City, New York, U.S. Key people Thomas J. McInerney ( President and CEO ) Subsidiaries Excalibur IP, LLC Website altaba.com Altaba Inc. is an investment company based in New York City that resulted from Verizon 's acquisition of Yahoo ! Inc 's Internet business. The company that remained after the purchase changed its name to Altaba Inc. on June 16, 2017. Verizon completed its acquisition on June 13, 2017, and put the assets under a new subsidiary named Yahoo Holdings within its newly - created division, Oath. The only ' Yahoo ! ' branded interest in the hands of Altaba is its stake in the joint venture Yahoo ! Japan. Contents 1 History 2 Assets 3 References 4 External links History On June 16, 2017, the company that remained after Verizon Communications purchased the Internet businesses of Yahoo ! Inc. was renamed Altaba Inc. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission 's listed the new company as a `` non-diversified, closed - end management investment company on their website. '' The ticker symbol YHOO was changed to AABA on June 19, 2017. On June 13, Thomas J. McInerney became CEO of the former Yahoo Inc., after the departure of then - CEO Marissa Mayer. He was also a board member and chairman of the company. June 19, the Altaba website listed McInerney as the first CEO of new iteration of the company, Altaba Inc. In September 2017, Altaba sold all 4.6 million common shares of Snap Inc. for $69.3 million. Assets Altaba owns Excalibur IP, LLC, a patent company ; controls a significant minority interest in Yahoo ! Japan ( 35.5 % ) and Alibaba Group ( 16.3 % ) ; and maintains investments in Hortonworks, Inc., Gomaji Corp., Ltd, Envestnet, Inc., Qumu Corporation, SeatGeek, Inc., Protagenic Therapeutics, Inc., Eastman Kodak Company, and Paperless Inc. References Jump up ^ https://www.investopedia.com/news/what-altaba-anyway/?ad=dirN&qo=investopediaSiteSearch&qsrc=0&o=40186/ Jump up ^ `` Yahoo Completes Sale Of Operating Business ; Company To Be Re-Named Altaba And Register As Investment Company ''. TheStreet.com. June 13, 2017. Retrieved June 28, 2017. Jump up ^ Natalie Walters ( January 10, 2017 ). `` Yahoo ! Set to Thrive Under New Altaba Name Thanks to Alibaba Stake ''. TheStreet.com. Retrieved June 28, 2017. Jump up ^ `` Altaba Announces 2017 Annual Meeting of Stockholders ''. businesswire.com. June 16, 2017. Retrieved June 16, 2017. Jump up ^ `` Business Search - Business Entities - Business Programs - California Secretary of State ''. businesssearch.sos.ca.gov. June 16, 2017. Retrieved June 16, 2017. ^ Jump up to : `` 8 - K ''. sec.gov. June 16, 2017. Retrieved June 16, 2017. Jump up ^ Kharpal, Arjun ( June 13, 2017 ). `` Verizon completes acquisition of Yahoo as Marissa Mayer resigns ''. CNBC. Retrieved June 13, 2017. Jump up ^ `` Yahoo to Become Alibaba Alter Ego with Name Change - Caixin Global ''. www.caixinglobal.com. Retrieved 2018 - 08 - 27. Jump up ^ `` Altaba, formerly Yahoo, starts trading on Nasdaq ''. CNBC. June 19, 2017. Retrieved June 28, 2017. Jump up ^ `` Altaba, Inc ''. altaba.com. June 19, 2017. Retrieved June 19, 2017. Jump up ^ `` Altaba - Investor Relations ''. www.altaba.com. Retrieved 2018 - 02 - 22. Jump up ^ `` The Company Formerly Known as Yahoo Just Gave Up on Snapchat ''. Fortune. Retrieved 2018 - 02 - 22. Jump up ^ https://www.caixinglobal.com/2017-01-11/yahoo-to-become-alibaba-alter-ego-with-name-change-101042635.html. Missing or empty title = ( help ) ; External link in website = ( help ) ; Missing or empty url = ( help ) Jump up ^ Paul R. La Monica ( June 19, 2017 ). `` Verizon and all new Oath Inc. Story of Yahoo, AOL and Altaba ''. CNN Money. Retrieved June 28, 2017. Jump up ^ `` Holdings ''. Altaba. Retrieved June 28, 2017. External links Official website Business data for Altaba : Yahoo ! Finance Bloomberg Reuters SEC filings Altaba Selected Investments Alibaba Group Yahoo ! Japan Hortonworks, Inc. Envestnet, Inc. SeatGeek, Inc. Eastman Kodak Company People Thomas J. McInerney ( President & CEO ) Jerry Yang David Filo Related Yahoo ! History of Yahoo ! Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Altaba&oldid=856754505 '' Categories : Yahoo ! Companies listed on NASDAQ Publicly traded companies based in New York City Investment companies based in New York City American companies established in 1995 Hidden categories : Pages with citations lacking titles CS1 errors : external links Pages using web citations with no URL Use mdy dates from June 2017 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Italiano Português Edit links This page was last edited on 27 August 2018, at 09 : 50 ( UTC ). About Wikipedia

Question: which internet web portal changed its name to altaba inc
Answer: Yahoo! Inc