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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

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Post by jonny_eh »

Gargoyle wrote: post #43
icelancer wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do as well. As outlined in The Halo Effect, people want very tidy, clean, and rational reasons why a company failed. Blame must be specifically laid somewhere. However, there's a pretty good chance no one available could have saved the demise of Yahoo. Variance is a thing.

I don't really mind people failing. I do think there's something wrong with someone earning massive amounts of money to fail and then everyone saying, "Oh well, anyone would have failed in that role." Why pay someone huge sums of money if failure is the expected outcome?

The blame for compensation should be on the board, not the CEO.

Re: Yahoo SEC Filing: Name change to Altaba Inc and director resignations

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Post by Eridrus »

Gargoyle wrote: post #43
icelancer wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do as well. As outlined in The Halo Effect, people want very tidy, clean, and rational reasons why a company failed. Blame must be specifically laid somewhere. However, there's a pretty good chance no one available could have saved the demise of Yahoo. Variance is a thing.

I don't really mind people failing. I do think there's something wrong with someone earning massive amounts of money to fail and then everyone saying, "Oh well, anyone would have failed in that role." Why pay someone huge sums of money if failure is the expected outcome?

To attract someone who has a chance of fixing things rather than someone who is guaranteed to fail?

Re: Yahoo SEC Filing: Name change to Altaba Inc and director resignations

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Post by riemannzeta »

For those confused, this filing is reporting a name change because the operating business (including its brand, domain name, etc.) is being acquired by Verizon out of what is now Yahoo! Inc. So the Yahoo business, its name, domains, and so on are not going anywhere as a result of this announcement. Altaba is just the name of of the company that will hold the investments that Verizon didn't acquire, including Alibaba shares.

Re: Yahoo SEC Filing: Name change to Altaba Inc and director resignations

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Post by [deleted] »

hoorayimhelping wrote: post #76
djsumdog wrote: post #36

I 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.

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Re: Yahoo SEC Filing: Name change to Altaba Inc and director resignations

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Post by interknot »

logicallee wrote: post #66
interknot wrote: post #42

Well, 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.

Maybe I could be hitting a cache or something, but here's what I see:

  $ host Altaba.com
  Altaba.com mail is handled by 10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com.
  Altaba.com mail is handled by 1 aspmx.l.google.com.
  Altaba.com mail is handled by 5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
  Altaba.com mail is handled by 5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
  Altaba.com mail is handled by 10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com.
Here's yahoo.com for reference:

  $ host yahoo.com
  yahoo.com has address 206.190.36.45
  yahoo.com has address 98.138.253.109
  yahoo.com has address 98.139.183.24
  yahoo.com has IPv6 address 2001:4998:58:c02::a9
  yahoo.com has IPv6 address 2001:4998:c:a06::2:4008
  yahoo.com has IPv6 address 2001:4998:44:204::a7
  yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 mta7.am0.yahoodns.net.
  yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 mta5.am0.yahoodns.net.
  yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 mta6.am0.yahoodns.net.

Re: Yahoo SEC Filing: Name change to Altaba Inc and director resignations

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Post by stanleydrew »

akjainaj wrote: post #77
logicallee wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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"

That's required for Google's domain ownership verification, which is a pre-requisite to enabling G Suite (formerly known as Google Apps for Domains).

Re: Yahoo SEC Filing: Name change to Altaba Inc and director resignations

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Post by xapata »

darkr wrote: post #72
nostromo wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Yes, the pay is excessive and probably unnecessary, but BoDs that approve it are often comprised of CEOs at other companies. Quid pro quo.

CEO compensation increased dramatically at around the same time that the finance sector started capturing a bigger chunk of the GDP, which is around the same time that many large companies created mini hedge funds internally. Maybe it's more to do with that, but the country club networking opportunities can't hurt.

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