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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 basch »

coldtea wrote: post #69
andy_ppp wrote: post #47

What the hell has Marissa Mayer been paid for? Everything about this smells like Yahoo! is being run by idiot MBAs with some spreadsheets somewhere totally misunderstanding that technology can empower people to do fantastic things including those working within Yahoo! - instead it's been hamstrung by each property not being held accountable to it's competitors effectively. I would have started competitors (startups)…

> I would have started competitors (startups) internally for all of Yahoo!'s key products (buy Y.com and test them under that) and told the current product owners if their products were not better faster than these startups could build them they'd be replaced. If only those in charge of Yahoo and other failing companies knew of such a cunning strategy... /s

They could have spun up 3+ internal teams making competing Yahoo Fantasy products, at let the best team win. They should have been making harder plays at instagram/smugmug with flickr. Y!Messenger was left to flounder while FB adds new features every week.

She chose to try and become a content/adtech company without first rate tech, features or user interfaces.

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by basch »

bogomipz wrote: post #20

"The US telecoms giant is expected to merge Yahoo with AOL, to create a digital group capable of taking on the likes of Google and Facebook." Can someone explain how combining two "past their prime" entities like Yahoo and AOL, with the Verizon telecom bureaucracy is going to produce anything "capable of taking on the likes of Google and Facebook"? Telecom companies have a pretty horrible culture. It is not one of in…

Between Yahoo & AOL they own BrightRoll, Luminate, Flurry, Gravity, Adap.tv, Convertro, PictelaSPARQ, Bread, Lexity, Ztelic, Dapper, BlueLithium, Millennial Media, Buysight, buy.at, Quigo etc

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by andyidsinga »

speeder wrote: post #256
SeanDav wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe he was being a being slightly tongue in cheek. In reply to your question though - never follow the money, follow the path where your interests lie and where your strengths lie. Biggest career mistake I ever made was to move from a job I really enjoyed to another because they offered to more than double my salary.

But you still get to eat right? I followed my interests, and now can't afford food, literally. I should have went for a job a hate but that paid well.

checked out your site - nice. pinging you on linked in. interesting, I was just chatting with a coworker today about lua and corona sdk ..serendipity?

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by intoverflow2 »

fleaflicker wrote: post #252
chollida1 wrote: post #226

Yahoo got all cash, which is nice as it gives them more flexibility, the last thing they'd want after the Alibaba spin off fiasco is to have to try and sell 4.83 Billion in Verizon stock. Bloomberg just put up a head line saying that Yahoo will return all the cash, minus Operating Costs to the share holders. If anyone has any guess as to how much "operating costs" will be, please email:) So I guess queue Alibaba and…

Why does everyone keep pointing out Mayer's compensation on this deal? Nobody said a word about the $200M that went Tim Armstrong's way in the Aol deal. [1] Can't help but think that if Yahoo had a male ceo nobody would be making these comments. [1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2015/05/12/tim-armst...

Did anyone care what happened to AOL though?

Yahoo had several well loved properties that they bought and ran into the ground.

You're comparing someone selling a truckload of junk for decent profit to someone who keeps buying expensive stuff, actively breaking it or leaving it to fester then selling it for a loss and being paid off for doing so.

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by Sylos »

rblatz wrote: post #105
rch wrote: post #54

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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.

Not quite as much of a no-brainer, if you consider that Yahoo! represents about a third of the competition for the place as default search engine in Firefox. If they can retain this competitor, they might benefit from it more than by cashing in on that billion.

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by [deleted] »

jjnoakes wrote: post #332
speeder wrote: post #328

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I used to type that post a 2013 MacMini, sort of smuggled in the country, that belongs to my startup (not me personally). The startup ran out of money, and I took the MacMini with me, so I could continue working. The MacMini is also currently using a damaged HDD, that S.M.A.R.T. keeps telling me should be replaced and is already critical, because I can't afford actually replacing the HDD. I was kicked out of the apar…

Sorry, I don't buy any of this.

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Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by centizen »

speeder wrote: post #333
jjnoakes wrote: post #332

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Sorry, I don't buy any of this.

The startup that own the MacMini: http://www.kidoteca.com Screenshot of my desktop, with MacMini about screen, and smartctl -a /dev/disk0/ http://imgur.com/a/61brQ You want my bank account screenshot too? I can tell you how much it has (positive 37.71 BRL, overdraft is disabled) I honestly doesn't understand why people think I am coming up with lies, I didn't asked for anything, I just shared an anecdote, I am not be…

You don't have to justify yourself to him, he's not going to listen anyways.

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by evmar »

ryanmarsh wrote: post #342
evmar wrote: post #289

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300k is nearly 6 times the median US income, and even the median US income is double that of high-quality-of-life places like Germany. Literally most of the planet has happy families with significantly less money than that. It's facile of me to diagnose your life over the internet but I often think of the deathbed quote: "I wish I had earned more money and spent less time with my family" -- no one ever

That's just evidence that wages are low. Seriously. If I make 6 times the median, we have a problem in this country. I don't know how you buy groceries for a family and pay for healthcare on 50k / yr.

You say "a problem in this country", but my point is that even the Universal healthcare in Germany likely helps offset the cost to some extent, but in the US those who even have healthcare usually get it through their employer. Really, it's more just a different expectation about what a reasonable life is.

I always think of how complex a television is, with thousands of little tiny components that had to be mined from the earth and forged and assembled and soldered (likely involving some child labor that we'd all prefer not to think about) and how many hundreds of people were involved. And then how it's just assumed in the US that it's reasonable to be able afford one of these in exchange for doing something simple like working a cash register at a bank for a few weeks, or how your quality of life somehow requires having multiple televisions etc.

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by jjnoakes »

centizen wrote: post #357
speeder wrote: post #333

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The startup that own the MacMini: http://www.kidoteca.com Screenshot of my desktop, with MacMini about screen, and smartctl -a /dev/disk0/ http://imgur.com/a/61brQ You want my bank account screenshot too? I can tell you how much it has (positive 37.71 BRL, overdraft is disabled) I honestly doesn't understand why people think I am coming up with lies, I didn't asked for anything, I just shared an anecdote, I am not be…

You don't have to justify yourself to him, he's not going to listen anyways.

I read through his comment history, so it's not that I'm not listening to what he's saying here, I'm listening to what he's said in the past.

It is possible for people to listen to what is said and disagree with it, or refuse to believe it.

Do you think he literally can't afford food?

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by paganel »

basch wrote: post #349
paganel wrote: post #204

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Not the OP, but I remember that from a developer's perspective (mine) Yahoo was pretty hot back in 2006-2007. Their dev center and API's were on par with Google's, if not better, while Yahoo Pipes was a very cool and interesting thing which has not been successfully replicated until now. Companies like FB were cool only because they had an exponential user growth and because of the rumors of them poaching engineers f…

who is replicating pipes?

I remember reading somth about a proof-of-concept replica of Pipes here on HN, I might be wrong, though, can't remember the source.
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