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Yahoo to Say It's Exploring Strategic Alternatives

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Re: Yahoo to Say It's Exploring Strategic Alternatives

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I can see how that could be fun if you like big picture thinking.

It's only fun in theory. What's not fun is when you have to answer to investors, which give no shits about you or your employees, and only dollars, or what they perceive will increase their returns. Often, this is aligned with what management wants to do and what the employees want to do, but in a situation like this, the incentives can be heavily misaligned.

I think like most people in leadership positions at big companies, they can coast along on the success of the big company but they think it's all them. See also nfl coaches. When I was at google, she was such an ass to people. Many were glad to see her leave. I wish more leaders had humility about their success. She's got her 300 million, she'll be okay, but I doubt she will get an improved character out of this.

Re: Yahoo to Say It's Exploring Strategic Alternatives

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Dear Yahoo, Remove the fake ads from your home page. Remove the misleading ads from your home page. Sponsored How To Pay Off Your Mortgage Homeowners are surprised and furious. If you owe less than $625,000 on your home, you better read this. Remove the ads from your already terrible email service. Remove the gossip columns that you call news and burry them deep where no one can find it. Stop trying to be good at eve…

Yahoo's finance page is very good, better than anyone else's. With one click URL I can get quotes on all the stocks I'm interested in, with a thumbnail graph, and links to charts, news, etc. Nobody else is even close.

google finance has all that.

Re: Yahoo to Say It's Exploring Strategic Alternatives

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Yahoo's finance page is very good, better than anyone else's. With one click URL I can get quotes on all the stocks I'm interested in, with a thumbnail graph, and links to charts, news, etc. Nobody else is even close.

google finance has all that.

I beg to differ.

1. Google's is cookie based, meaning I can have only one portfolio. 2. Google doesn't have the thumbnail chart of the day's performance. 3. Google doesn't have the useful links.

Yahoo's is URL based, for example, here's a MSFT/AMZN/GOOG portfolio:

https://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/MSFT,GOOG,AMZN/view/v1

See for yourself!

Re: Yahoo to Say It's Exploring Strategic Alternatives

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Dear Yahoo, Remove the fake ads from your home page. Remove the misleading ads from your home page. Sponsored How To Pay Off Your Mortgage Homeowners are surprised and furious. If you owe less than $625,000 on your home, you better read this. Remove the ads from your already terrible email service. Remove the gossip columns that you call news and burry them deep where no one can find it. Stop trying to be good at eve…

Yahoo's finance page is very good, better than anyone else's. With one click URL I can get quotes on all the stocks I'm interested in, with a thumbnail graph, and links to charts, news, etc. Nobody else is even close.

Not just that, but Yahoo Finance's data download capabilities were a godsend for students like me in the late 2000s. No sign-up bullshit, they just let casual web users download enormous stock price data sets in CSV format. Very useful for my finance classes or econometrics term papers. I was fortunate to have access to a Bloomberg terminal at my school, but Yahoo Finance's efficient combination of displaying key metrics, historical prices and company-related newsires all on one site, navigable from my bedroom, was immeasurably valuable as well.
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