Yellowpages.com

YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC

Type	Subsidiary of AT&T
Founded	1996
Headquarters	U.S.
Industry	Directory Publishing
Parent	(1996-2005) SBC/AT&T (2005-2006, 60%; 2006-present, wholly-owned) BellSouth (2005-2006, 40%)
Website	www.yellowpages.com

Yellowpages.com is an Internet web site operated by YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T.[1]. The company has been recognized as one of the top sources of online advertisements.^{[citation needed]}

History

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Both sites' operations (SMARTpages and RealYellowPages) were merged into Yellowpages.com in 2005. As a result of SBC Communications' merger with AT&T, the post merger AT&T wholly owned an additional telephone directory website AnyWho.com. AnyWho.com, though owned by AT&T Knowledge Ventures, was never merged into Yellowpages.com due to stake conflicts with BellSouth. The acquisition of BellSouth by AT&T on December 29, 2006 lead to both companies being wholly owned. The AT&T family includes YELLOWPAGES.com, and 1-800-YellowPages.

In July 2008, YellowPages.com's YPMobile application for the iPhone was ranked #21 out of the top 100 applications downloaded for Apple's smartphone.

BellSouth and SBC purchased YellowPages.com reportedly for US $120 Million. The companies formed a joint venture to run the business. The two companies had been working together on another joint venture called Cingular, a wireless carrier in the US. Each company had its own Online YellowPages: BellSouth owned RealPages.com and SBC owned SmartPages.com. The two sites effectively merged into the newly-acquired YellowPages.com.

In 2005, SBC acquired AT&T and took on the stronger AT&T brand. One year later, AT&T acquired Bellsouth for US $67 Billion. At this point, the YellowPages.com business was no longer a joint venture but, instead, a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T.

External links

• YELLOWPAGES.com
• AT&T and BellSouth Join to Create a Premier Global Communications Company, AT&T News Room, December 29, 2006
• Yellow Pages in Chennai - MATRIX INFO SERVICES ,