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Oil Traders May Be the Only Ones Who Want Yahoo to Survive

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Re: Oil Traders May Be the Only Ones Who Want Yahoo to Survive

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Post by SolarNet »

rs999gti wrote: post #53
profeta wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you forgot they are running a multi trillion dollar industry on free-as-in-beer software. I doubt they would pay $5 per user. or even a year flat fee. and since they will not pay, you will have to run it on ads. And supporting online/mobile offerings (that do not have their requirement of local client/local logs) will always give you more money. it is a lose/lose situation.

> you forgot they are running a multi trillion dollar industry on free-as-in-beer software. Isn't that the basis of enterprise linux?

Linux is free-as-in-speech software. That means I could clone it in a week and sell a competing product when, say Ubuntu, starts to implode. Free-as-in-beer software doesn't have that.

Re: Oil Traders May Be the Only Ones Who Want Yahoo to Survive

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Post by lordnacho »

tchitra wrote: post #76

Doesn't this article feel like it was written for Yahoo's benefit? Since they have a blinded bidding process (See [1]), it seems as if this article could help drum up higher bids. Maybe Yahoo is the anonymous source that provided the "hot tip" about commodity traders on Yahoo Messenger. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-04-20/yahoo-bid...

I don't know about the timing, but I have a relative in the industry and he told me it's actually the case. Everyone and their mom is on Yahoo chat when it comes to commodities.

Re: Oil Traders May Be the Only Ones Who Want Yahoo to Survive

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Post by Hydraulix989 »

One thing Yahoo has is an excellent university recruiting program with bombastic pampering, puzzle challenges, and hackathons. Seeing what other companies also have extremely hyped up university recruitment programs, I almost treat it now as a negative signal for a company's future success. I suppose the harder you have to try to win graduates' hearts, the less appealing you are to work for, and consequently, the worse off of a company you are going to be without the right kind of talent on staff going forward.

Re: Oil Traders May Be the Only Ones Who Want Yahoo to Survive

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Post by Fuxy »

tchitra wrote: post #76

Doesn't this article feel like it was written for Yahoo's benefit? Since they have a blinded bidding process (See [1]), it seems as if this article could help drum up higher bids. Maybe Yahoo is the anonymous source that provided the "hot tip" about commodity traders on Yahoo Messenger. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-04-20/yahoo-bid...

It was the first chat I ever used (besides IRC) and there's still a lot of people I con only reach there.

It was quite popular in Eastern Europe as an IRC replacement since IRC was too difficult for the less computer savvy.

These days most people have switched to Facebook Messanger since nobody wants the hassle if installing another messenger app.

Re: Oil Traders May Be the Only Ones Who Want Yahoo to Survive

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Post by crumpled »

tchitra wrote: post #76

Doesn't this article feel like it was written for Yahoo's benefit? Since they have a blinded bidding process (See [1]), it seems as if this article could help drum up higher bids. Maybe Yahoo is the anonymous source that provided the "hot tip" about commodity traders on Yahoo Messenger. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-04-20/yahoo-bid...

I'm not sure it's a positive story. It suggests that yahoo will migrate these customers to a new platform that doesn't support the features they like and legally need.

Re: Oil Traders May Be the Only Ones Who Want Yahoo to Survive

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Post by gaius »

benkomen wrote: post #44
javiramos wrote: post #28

Why didn't Yahoo focus on further developing businesses around these services (Finance, Fantasy etc.) that people love?

Yahoo has a huge number of services that remained popular with different groups of people well after they should have gone to dot.com hell - yahoo groups,answers, finance etc. I attribute their neglect to poor management and misplaced priorities. Yahoo could have been quora, instagram, pinterest etc. even well after those upstarts arrived on the scene.

Yahoo is more interested in the colour palette of its apps, than who its users are. No effective leadership is the problem.

Re: Oil Traders May Be the Only Ones Who Want Yahoo to Survive

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Post by WiseWeasel »

jcdavis wrote: post #18

A lot of big tech companies also use Yahoo chat. Salesforce did as late as 2012 when I left, with 1k+ people in the eng org. (No idea if they still do). Seemed crazy at the same, still does now too

Doubtful; Yahoo stopped supporting OS X in the last couple years with the official YIM client, and the service is completely unreliable on the platform with 3rd party clients, with messages randomly failing to be delivered. Pretty much any company with non-Windows users has been forced to migrate away, including my workplace (thank Jebus).

Re: Oil Traders May Be the Only Ones Who Want Yahoo to Survive

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Post by saiya-jin »

lordnacho wrote: post #83
tchitra wrote: post #76

Doesn't this article feel like it was written for Yahoo's benefit? Since they have a blinded bidding process (See [1]), it seems as if this article could help drum up higher bids. Maybe Yahoo is the anonymous source that provided the "hot tip" about commodity traders on Yahoo Messenger. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-04-20/yahoo-bid...

I don't know about the timing, but I have a relative in the industry and he told me it's actually the case. Everyone and their mom is on Yahoo chat when it comes to commodities.

confirming, ex-gf who is commodity trader (coal, energy and oil lately) mentioned yahoo chat all the time. most of them are not very tech-savvy, so they are happy with it as long as it works
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