Will they sell the broadcast.com domain (or will it 301 to altaba)?
I have a great idea to use that domain to host streaming of live youth sports.
Yahoo SEC Filing: Name change to Altaba Inc and director resignations
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Re: Yahoo SEC Filing: Name change to Altaba Inc and director resignations
#72Rather than the inevitable bashing of Marissa that will undoubtedly unfurl on this thread, I'd like to put in a little reminder that we usually celebrate taking on big projects and big risks and that we should commend her for taking on the immense challenge of steadying the Yahoo ship. Yes, she wasn't able to keep the ship from sinking. But I do think she put in a good-faith effort.
Let's do away with excessive scorn for failed CEOs and excessive adulation for successful CEOs. There's a lot of randomness in business and in life.
Also the excessive pay then by that logic?
Re: Yahoo SEC Filing: Name change to Altaba Inc and director resignations
#73I wish there was a real alternative to search. I use DuckDuckGo, but I believe they run on AWS and purchase index data from Yandex et. al. At this point, is it even feasible for anyone to enter the general search market, or has Google simply set the barrier to entry too high? Are there any niche search engines that focus on things Google has either removed or doesn't index? Are there other alternatives besides DDG, S…
DuckDuckGo uses more than 400 sources:
https://duck.co/help/results/sources
Re: Yahoo SEC Filing: Name change to Altaba Inc and director resignations
#74It makes perfect sense if you look at it from the perspective of deliberate ship sinking.
Altabandon Ship?
Alt-A, Backspace?
All t'abort, aaaah!
(OK, I'll show myself out.)
Sneaks in edit: ah of course: Altabasta!
Re: Yahoo SEC Filing: Name change to Altaba Inc and director resignations
#75Is this like Google's move to be under Alphabet as a parent company? Altaba is for the holding group that controls that substantial overseas investments while Yahoo becomes just a brand used for some of their web properties that can be sold off if necessary?
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Re: Yahoo SEC Filing: Name change to Altaba Inc and director resignations
#76I wish there was a real alternative to search. I use DuckDuckGo, but I believe they run on AWS and purchase index data from Yandex et. al. At this point, is it even feasible for anyone to enter the general search market, or has Google simply set the barrier to entry too high? Are there any niche search engines that focus on things Google has either removed or doesn't index? Are there other alternatives besides DDG, S…
"At this point, is it even feasible for anyone to enter the desktop computer market, or has Microsoft simply set the barrier to entry too high?"
-Us, 1999
One thing I've observed in tech over the past 25 years is that change comes from unexpected places and often very quickly.
Re: Yahoo SEC Filing: Name change to Altaba Inc and director resignations
#77Well, at least they registered Altaba.com. No IP address as of now, though it looks like their mail is handled by Google Apps!
You're kidding. Tell me you're kidding.
And that's not everything because this is the TXT record
altaba.com. 1800 IN TXT "google-site-verification=vO3De5z6qb-AeM1GmHkcC5dlWA_cw-7WKN5xhcyFFPM"
Re: Yahoo SEC Filing: Name change to Altaba Inc and director resignations
#78Rather than the inevitable bashing of Marissa that will undoubtedly unfurl on this thread, I'd like to put in a little reminder that we usually celebrate taking on big projects and big risks and that we should commend her for taking on the immense challenge of steadying the Yahoo ship. Yes, she wasn't able to keep the ship from sinking. But I do think she put in a good-faith effort.
Out of curiosity, why do you call her by her first name instead of her last name (Meyer)? Is there another famous Meyer such that there could be a confusion here?
Re: Yahoo SEC Filing: Name change to Altaba Inc and director resignations
#79What's the verdict on Marissa, did she do a bad job, or was yahoo simply unsaveable?
Re: Yahoo SEC Filing: Name change to Altaba Inc and director resignations
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think there is absolutely no indication that anybody, other than Jesus Christ himself descending from the skies mounted on a Harley Davidson in flames, could have saved Yahoo. So, bashing Marissa here would be really, really pointless and sad.
Why'd she do it then? Got paid a lot, that's for damn sure. $219M over 4 years. http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/25/technology/marissa-mayer-pay...
I don't think that's enough to bash someone. She gave it a good shot, I don't think anyone could've done better.