Yahoo! Labs served as Yahoo!'s research arm, aiming to develop research in technologies to be used within the company Yahoo! Labs includes approximately 200 research scientists and engineers. Yahoo! Labs is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA; it has three additional locations worldwide: New York, New York; London, England; and Haifa, Israel. Yahoo Labs Barcelona was closed in early 2015. On February 17, 2016, Yahoo! announced that Yahoo! Labs was being replaced with Yahoo! Research.