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R. Martin Roscheisen is an Austrian-American technology entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley. According to a profile in German business journal Handelsblatt. Martin Roscheisen was born and raised in Munich, Germany, as an Austrian citizen. Attending Feodor Lynen high school near Munich, he... graduated valedictorian in 1987. While still a teenager, he spent a year at the legendary Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center in Silicon Valley. He subsequently studied computer science and electrical engineering at Munich Technical University, graduating at the top of his class. In 1992, he moved to California to earn a doctorate in engineering at Stanford University In the 1990s, Roscheisen was among the first generation of entrepreneurs pursuing opportunities in the commercial Internet; and in 2000+, he was one of the first entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley to focus on green energy technology. In 1995, Roscheisen co-founded FindLaw, which became the most widely used Internet legal site, for the first time making U.S. case law including all Supreme Court decisions accessible to the public.
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Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping, video sharing, and social media website and services. It is one of the largest websites in the United States. Yahoo! inclusive was founded by Jerry Yang and... David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995. On January 13, 2009, Yahoo! appointed Carol Bartz, former executive chairman of Autodesk, as its new chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors. On September 6, 2011, Bartz was removed from her position at Yahoo! by chairman Roy Bostock and CFO Tim Morse was named as Interim CEO of the company. On January 4, 2012, Scott Thompson, former President of PayPal, was named the new chief executive officer. According to news sources roughly 700 million people visit Yahoo websites every month. Yahoo! itself claims it attracts "more than half a billion consumers every month in more than 30 languages".
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