As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission As Amended on March 21, 2008
Registration Statement No. 333-34364

 

 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1
TO

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Yahoo! Inc.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		77-0398689 (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, California 94089
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of Registrant’s principal executive offices)

Blake Jorgensen
Chief Financial Officer
Yahoo! Inc.
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, California 94089
Telephone: (408) 349-3300
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies to:

Michael J. Callahan Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary Yahoo! Inc. 701 First Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Telephone: (408) 349-3300		Thomas J. Ivey, Esq. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP 525 University Avenue Palo Alto, California 94301 Telephone: (650) 470-4500

Approximate Date of Commencement of Proposed Sale to the Public: Not applicable.

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DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD SECURITIES

     Pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-34364) (the “Registration Statement”) initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 7, 2000 by Yahoo! Inc. (the “Company”) and declared effective in May 2000 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Company registered the sale from time to time of 10,000,000 shares (the “Shares”) of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share, under Yahoo! StockDirect, a direct stock purchase plan.

     The Company is seeking to deregister all Shares that remain unsold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof because it has authorized Computershare Trust Company, N.A. to introduce Computershare Investment Plan, a direct stock purchase plan, to replace Yahoo! StockDirect effective on March 24, 2008. Pursuant to the undertaking of the Company as required by Item 512(a)(3) of Regulation S-K, the Company is filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to deregister all of the Shares of the Company’s common stock that remain unsold under this Registration Statement as of the date hereof.

SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereto duly authorized, in the city of Sunnyvale, State of California, on this 21st day of March 2008.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

     KNOW BY ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below does hereby constitute and appoint Jerry Yang and Blake Jorgensen, and each of them, with full power of substitution and full power to act without the other, such person’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent to act for such person in such person’s name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post effective amendments) to this registration statement, and to file this registration statement, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each one of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in order to effectuate the same as fully, to all intents and purposes, as such person might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement No. 333-34364 has been signed by the following persons, in the capacities indicated, as of March 21, 2008.

Name		Title
/s/ Jerry Yang		Chief Executive Officer and Director (principal executive officer)
Jerry Yang
/s/ Blake Jorgensen		Chief Financial Officer (principal financial officer)
Blake Jorgensen
/s/ Michael Murray		Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer
Michael Murray		(principal accounting officer)
/s/ Roy Bostock
Roy Bostock		Chairman of the Board
/s/ Ronald Burkle
Ronald Burkle		Director
/s/ Eric Hippeau
Eric Hippeau		Director
/s/ Vyomesh Joshi
Vyomesh Joshi		Director
/s/ Arthur Kern
Arthur Kern		Director
/s/ Robert Kotick
Robert Kotick		Director
/s/ Edward Kozel
Edward Kozel		Director
/s/ Mary Agnes Wilderotter
Mary Agnes Wilderotter		Director
/s/ Gary Wilson
Gary Wilson		Director