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Apple, of course. It's probably the biggest turn-around story of our time.
Apple turned around by moving much more heavily into consumer hardware, specifically the iPod and then the iPhone and iPad. It was not really a software turnaround, though that was a smaller part of it.
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How do you not make money and still owe a lot in capital gains?
Generally this occurs when you exercise an option to purchase stock, then hold the stock while it significantly depreciates in value. Fairly common scenario during the dot-com bubble. 1) Option at $1 2) Exercise at $100, spending $1 to buy. Tax on $99 short term capital gains owed, or ~$35. 3) Stock falls to $10 and sold for a $9 profit. You still owe $35 capital gains and spent $1. Net loss of $25 per share.
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Apple turned around by moving much more heavily into consumer hardware, specifically the iPod and then the iPhone and iPad. It was not really a software turnaround, though that was a smaller part of it.
was it, though? I mean, none of the apple hardware is amazing, and today, it's not even really different, but... the software mostly works, and for computers? that's amazing . I remember in the mid aughts, when I had been working exclusively with linux for some time, I started to see my peers, peers who wouldn't be caught dead with a windows laptop, carrying around os-x laptops. Compared to the ThinkPad of the day, t…
This is probably a really dumb question - but I have 17 years worth of Yahoo email. Most of it is for nostalgia, but how likely is it that this would be wiped away if/when Yahoo goes under?
The fact that you ask yourself this question now implies that you should really start preparing.
This is probably a really dumb question - but I have 17 years worth of Yahoo email. Most of it is for nostalgia, but how likely is it that this would be wiped away if/when Yahoo goes under?
If you care about it, keep your own backups. This applies to all cloud services at all times. The fact that you ask yourself this question now implies that you should really start preparing.
I still remember when some were attempting to portray Mayers' demotion from the exec ranks at Google as sexism. In reality, Google had probably already recognized certain issues in her managerial style.
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> Imagine if Google's last product was Docs. No Android, no Doubleclick, no Street View, no autocomplete in search, no Chrome. Android, DoubleClick, Google Maps (Where 2, ZipDash), Google Earth (Keyhole), and Google Docs (Writely, 2Web, Tonic, DocVerse, Quickoffice) were built of acquisitions, not new Google products. Chrome, too, in a sense (WebKit). Thought experiment: what if Yahoo ! , not Google, had acquired all…
They _did_ buy Tumblr and all you ever read about that is Yahoo writing off more of the Tumblr value. How are their other acquisitions doing?
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One person who avoided this was Mark Cuban, who bought a bunch of Yahoo! put options when broadcast.com was acquired, hedging himself against the stock crash.
Nice strategy. I wonder why others didn't do it.
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One person who avoided this was Mark Cuban, who bought a bunch of Yahoo! put options when broadcast.com was acquired, hedging himself against the stock crash.
Nice strategy. I wonder why others didn't do it.
Unfortunately, Yahoo also had these random properties like mail and games that made it difficult to forge one path.
Further, Mayer was someone who had reputation as a tech leader. She saw everything from a tech angle which made it difficult for her to direct the company in another direction apart from tech. This was the reason why Flickr and Delicious were being shutdown.