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Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by function_seven »

TheMagicHorsey wrote: post #64

I did a little work as a developer for Verizon's ecosystem back in 2007. Let me just say, from what I could see, they were a huge, bureaucratic company without a single redeeming cultural trait. The managers seemed like a bunch of frat boys who had been raised up into positions of authority through some inscrutable lottery, and none of them seemed to possess an iota of analytical capability or human management talent…

Out of curiosity, which Verizon did you work for? The former MCI/Worldcom unit ("VZ Business"), the GTE/Bell Atlantic one (Landline, FiOS, etc.), or Verizon Wireless? As far as I know, that company has remained fairly fractured, and operated as if they were three different companies.

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by droopybuns »

ajmurmann wrote: post #82
tehwebguy wrote: post #49

Verizon shouldn't be allowed to own any web properties. They inject a unique subscriber identifier into your HTTP requests unless you turn it off. http://www.verizonwireless.com/support/unique-identifier-hea...

No company that sells Internet access should be allowed to also be in the content business.

Should Google be allowed to sell fiber?

I think the suggestion that carriers shouldn't do this is wrong and naive and here is why:

User count should not ever be exponential of customer counts. It inescapably results in fundamentally unethical business practices where users are exploited.

That is google's business model and they stand uncontested today.

Carriers that end up doing any amount of content monetization will never disrupt Google, but they can create pressure that drives the cost of ads down, making google's life harder. I think this is so important that I am happily willing to endure the judgement of everyone here. I know this is downvote bait, but I keep thinking at some point everyone here will see the net positive on all possible angles.

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by intopieces »

tehwebguy wrote: post #49

Verizon shouldn't be allowed to own any web properties. They inject a unique subscriber identifier into your HTTP requests unless you turn it off. http://www.verizonwireless.com/support/unique-identifier-hea...

I'm a Verizon Wireless customer. I remember reading about this, but forgot to take action on it. Thank you for reminding me to opt-out of it.

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by rblatz »

rch wrote: post #54
STRML wrote: post #44

So this means Mozilla's insanely bad clause (for Yahoo) [1] kicks in? 1. http://www.recode.net/2016/7/7/12116296/marissa-mayer-deal-m...

I'd bet that Mozilla continues to work with Yahoo/Verizon.

Or they could switch back to google or bing and grab nearly an extra billion dollars between now and 2019.

Seems like a no brainier to Mozilla.

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by throwaway76543 »

tehwebguy wrote: post #49

Verizon shouldn't be allowed to own any web properties. They inject a unique subscriber identifier into your HTTP requests unless you turn it off. http://www.verizonwireless.com/support/unique-identifier-hea...

A bit more than a decade ago Yahoo powered Site Finder, the much hated DNS wildcard implemented by VeriSign. Sounds like a good match to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_Finder

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB106383944220437900

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by intopieces »

dao- wrote: post #70
rch wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd bet that Mozilla continues to work with Yahoo/Verizon.

It will be interesting to see what the deal will mean for the privacy policy of Yahoo search, and whether that will be acceptable for Mozilla.

I'll do more research on my own, but for the benefit of others reading, would you elaborate on this? Yahoo works with Duck Duck Go, so their privacy policy was good enough for them, it would seem.

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by dogma1138 »

toss1941 wrote: post #83
zzleeper wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dude ATI was in 2006, but in 2009 they divested Global Foundry in 2009 (which were a HUGE chunk of ATI's assets)

Wasn't ATI completely fabless? What assets would they have had that got wrapped up into Global Foundries?

Yes, ATI and NVIDIA were always fabless AFAIK.

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by dogma1138 »

byuu wrote: post #24
dogma1138 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's hardly a unique case, AMD is worth less now than what it paid for ATI back in the day.

That really had to be the dumbest moves in computing history. "What does the #2 CPU maker need to become #1? The #2 GPU maker, obviously!"

Well NVIDIA wanted to spin off into the CPU market also, they sorta did with them building ARM based SOC's with NVIDIA GPU's. There were also rumors of them licensing x86 from Intel.

Oddly enough NVIDIA back in the day made what arguable was the best chipset for AMD CPU's - NVIDIA nForce.

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