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How Yahoo came up with its new name: Altaba

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Re: How Yahoo came up with its new name: Altaba

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Well, one wonders how AOL still strike to survive after all these years. MSN gone. Yahoo gone.

We just had this discussion at work.. one of the recent reports stated over 2 million subscribers still pulling in ~600 million a year just from that (pales in comparison to ad revenue and past performance, but still... 2 million!). The average per-account income was something like $21/month.

Re: How Yahoo came up with its new name: Altaba

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Well, one wonders how AOL still strike to survive after all these years. MSN gone. Yahoo gone.

We just had this discussion at work.. one of the recent reports stated over 2 million subscribers still pulling in ~600 million a year just from that (pales in comparison to ad revenue and past performance, but still... 2 million!). The average per-account income was something like $21/month.

That's more an indicator of how large parts of America don't have affordable or any broadband access. I'd trust AOL to be around longer than NetZero or any other bottom feeder ISP.

Re: How Yahoo came up with its new name: Altaba

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Well, one wonders how AOL still strike to survive after all these years. MSN gone. Yahoo gone.

We just had this discussion at work.. one of the recent reports stated over 2 million subscribers still pulling in ~600 million a year just from that (pales in comparison to ad revenue and past performance, but still... 2 million!). The average per-account income was something like $21/month.

Well, the AARP has 38 million members, so that's not too surprising, I guess. (I'm saying that a lot of old folks don't realize there is an Internet, or email, or online news, etc. without AOL.)
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