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

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Post by vcool07 »

paulddraper wrote: post #29
__jal wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Part of it is that this is HN, and Yahoo as an internet company has been boring for a long, long time[1]. Another part of it is that it shows the incredible value of inertia. Sports scores and email is with $5B. And I think a third is just a bit of schadenfreude from the internet insider set. Selling half of yourself to a Baby Bell-revenant and turning the rest into a tracking stock is a sad way for the first interne…

> Part of it is that this is HN, and Yahoo as an internet company has been boring for a long, long time It's like the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M ). They make $30 billion in annual sales with 55k products. How often do you hear about them? They're big, profitable, and news is mostly boring to HN interests.

I did not know that's what 3M stands for, learn a new thing every day here at HN :)

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

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Post by strictnein »

mitchty wrote: post #23
reustle wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How many rural areas still use dialup but don't have access to cellular yet?

A lot. Most of the upper midwest lacks cellular coverage. You need to drive to the top of a hill to even hit a gsm signal at one bar. The old analog signals were better but they're gone now.

> Most of the upper midwest lacks cellular coverage.

What now? This simply isn't true.

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

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Post by puranjay »

panic wrote: post #16

This article could be a tweet: The new name is meant to be a combination of the words “alternative and Alibaba,” according to a person familiar with the company’s thinking, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the individual was not authorized to speak on the record about the name change.

Most articles could be condensed into headlines

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

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Post by LargeCompanies »

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #21

Still the third most visited Web property in the United States According to Alexa it's the 5th [1] but I'm sure it's not a huge difference between third and fifth. Yahoo still makes almost $5BN a year. It's a 24 year old internet behemoth. I mean by any reasonable measure of a company, those are ungodly numbers. Given how people talk about Yahoo though you'd think it was populated with lepers. I guess it's all about…

It's populated with Trump voters! Internet neophytes who cluelessly spread fake news and use Yahoo email. That is the Internet population Verizon bought which probably is a good ad clicking demograhic to buy into.

While the majority here are progressive thinkers technologically and politically who don't click on ads. We may have a Yahoo email account for spam only and or used Yahoo email circa pre 2005.

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

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LargeCompanies wrote: post #35
AndrewKemendo wrote: post #21

Still the third most visited Web property in the United States According to Alexa it's the 5th [1] but I'm sure it's not a huge difference between third and fifth. Yahoo still makes almost $5BN a year. It's a 24 year old internet behemoth. I mean by any reasonable measure of a company, those are ungodly numbers. Given how people talk about Yahoo though you'd think it was populated with lepers. I guess it's all about…

It's populated with Trump voters! Internet neophytes who cluelessly spread fake news and use Yahoo email. That is the Internet population Verizon bought which probably is a good ad clicking demograhic to buy into. While the majority here are progressive thinkers technologically and politically who don't click on ads. We may have a Yahoo email account for spam only and or used Yahoo email circa pre 2005.

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

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Post by guftagu »

puranjay wrote: post #33
panic wrote: post #16

This article could be a tweet: The new name is meant to be a combination of the words “alternative and Alibaba,” according to a person familiar with the company’s thinking, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the individual was not authorized to speak on the record about the name change.

Most articles could be condensed into headlines

> Most articles could be condensed into headlines

There really needs to be an app for that

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

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Post by kriro »

paulddraper wrote: post #29
__jal wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Part of it is that this is HN, and Yahoo as an internet company has been boring for a long, long time[1]. Another part of it is that it shows the incredible value of inertia. Sports scores and email is with $5B. And I think a third is just a bit of schadenfreude from the internet insider set. Selling half of yourself to a Baby Bell-revenant and turning the rest into a tracking stock is a sad way for the first interne…

> Part of it is that this is HN, and Yahoo as an internet company has been boring for a long, long time It's like the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M ). They make $30 billion in annual sales with 55k products. How often do you hear about them? They're big, profitable, and news is mostly boring to HN interests.

They are used in many MBA courses as the reference story for a conglomerate and also for the idea of core competencies, namely "applying coatings to backings".

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

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Post by baybal2 »

notatoad wrote: post #27
baybal2 wrote: post #25

alt+tab it Alibabers will kill the company, they have no talent running western style dotcoms

? Neither altaba or Alibaba is a western style dot-com. That part of yahoo is being sold to Verizon. Altaba is just a holding company for Alibaba stock.

Well I had an impression that Alibaba was a party to the deal. It appears, they aren't

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

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Post by BuuQu9hu »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #20
Azeralthefallen wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My grand parents do not get celluar where they live in very remote Montana. Apparently ether Verizon/AT&T (i can't remember which) has been promising them Celluar/Cable service for over 5 years now, and has never come through with it. Honestly i think the only reason they even pay for AOL is because they use it to keep in touch with relatives via email.

Sadly every cellular map I've seen has a big black hole with is Wyoming/Montana. I feel for your grandparents, beautiful country but no connectivity.

Sounds like an opportunity for someone to come along and create a new network based on open source mobile stuff.

http://osmocom.org/

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