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Verizon Sells AOL and Yahoo to Apollo for $5B

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Re: Verizon Sells AOL and Yahoo to Apollo for $5B

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Post by TaupeRanger »

andrewprock wrote: post #335
TaupeRanger wrote: post #299

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Tell that to investors in Fitbit or Palantir (for example) before they sold off after having good "momentum". Crypto investors don't even understand crypto, but that doesn't mean anything, because you can be left holding a long term bag whether you understand the underlying asset or not.

If you actually understand a "momentum" asset, you will definitely not be left holding the bag.

If you actually understand "investing" you will understand that you can't beat the indexes and are doomed to failure by trying to use "momentum" to do anything other than lose money.

Re: Verizon Sells AOL and Yahoo to Apollo for $5B

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Post by KirillPanov »

astrange wrote: post #202
oaththrowaway wrote: post #57

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If it's not related to 5G, I would expect it to be.. less of a focus

What does it mean for something to be related to 5G? Actually related, or part of the "5G AI cloud" marketing buzzwords that don't seem to mean anything?

Quantum cyber blockchain will beat 5G AI cloud.

Re: Verizon Sells AOL and Yahoo to Apollo for $5B

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Post by Nextgrid »

runako wrote: post #53
perardi wrote: post #43

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“AOL sells huge number of paid dialup based email accounts” Do they really? I am not being sarcastic. I cannot find a recent reference to this (everything seems to be from 2015), but given my experience getting my aunt away from AOL email: it seems horribly plausible.

> https://plans.aol.com/join?regtype=new "If you're interested in purchasing a plan that includes dialup service, please call 1-800-827-6364 (Mon-Fri: 8am-12am ET; Sat: 8am-10pm ET)" I would not be surprised to learn that they still have millions of dial-up customers & millions on the new non-dialup plans.

Is dial-up even usable nowadays considering how heavy webpages have become?

Re: Verizon Sells AOL and Yahoo to Apollo for $5B

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Post by HappySweeney »

csunbird wrote: post #148
menzoic wrote: post #143

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I thought trending feed was based on metrics

Probably, yes. Also, it is very likely that any posts/trends that are not "desirable" are prevented manually from entering the trending feed as well.

"Cocaine" trends every Saturday early morning, leading me to believe nobody has their thumbs on that particular scale.

Re: Verizon Sells AOL and Yahoo to Apollo for $5B

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Post by spullara »

slg wrote: post #290
spullara wrote: post #249

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I looked this up. The top 2 are DraftKings and FanDuel. They have 90% marketshare. Yahoo is tied for 3rd.

I am guessing you are looking at daily fantasy sports and not fantasy sports in general. DraftKings and Fanduel do not have a 90% market share on the entire fantasy sports industry. I believe Yahoo still has the largest market share when it comes to traditional fantasy sports and has done a poor job translating that into success in DFS in which they are fighting for 3rd place. That is why I threw in the caveat "with…

You're thinking share of users I think rather than share of revenue. But happy to be proven wrong with some other numbers.

Re: Verizon Sells AOL and Yahoo to Apollo for $5B

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Post by spullara »

jensvdh wrote: post #293
spullara wrote: post #248

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Yahoo Finance already tracks the cryptocurrencies. Has for ages. You can also integrate in exchanges to buy stocks, wouldn't be hard to add crypto to that. BTW, you can't buy DOGE-USD on Coinbase. Here it is in my wife's portfolio: https://i.imgur.com/MZlE51m.png

"Portfolio", holding DOGE is about the same as holding lottery tickets.

Hey she wanted some for valentines day. It is up 8x right now, but yeah, it is a meme lottery ticket for sure.

Re: Verizon Sells AOL and Yahoo to Apollo for $5B

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Post by spullara »

StLCylone wrote: post #287
spullara wrote: post #249

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I looked this up. The top 2 are DraftKings and FanDuel. They have 90% marketshare. Yahoo is tied for 3rd.

Source? Just want to read about it myself.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210209005804/en/Nor...

Re: Verizon Sells AOL and Yahoo to Apollo for $5B

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Post by ac29 »

chrisbolt wrote: post #308
avianlyric wrote: post #211

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mmWave doesn’t penetrate glass or brick making it pretty useless as a wireline replacement. Unless you want to go through the trouble of mounting an antenna outside, assuming of course that you access to wall with direct line of sight to a 5G tower.

If this is true, how am I able to get 5G UW inside my car with the windows closed?

Its not true. Glass does attenuate mmWave frequencies, but doesnt "block" them.

https://esprtk.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/2004.12568.pdf

Re: Verizon Sells AOL and Yahoo to Apollo for $5B

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Post by dang »

ecommerceguy wrote: post #187
csunbird wrote: post #148

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Probably, yes. Also, it is very likely that any posts/trends that are not "desirable" are prevented manually from entering the trending feed as well.

Hence the finger on the scales. It would be naive to think Twitter doesn't have shills that troll here to downvote anti-twitter posts such as the one above. edit: lol case in point. I once tried twitter advertising and it was the worst ad spend ever.

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