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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 Tempest1981 »

airstrike wrote: post #76
kolbe wrote: post #42

Is this the final blow for Yahoo!'s finance API?

Why would it be final? It seems to be quite successful, and any new owner would want to keep it that way

Acquisitions often result in downsizing, aka "rightsizing" due to newfound efficiencies and synergies.

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

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Post by infinityplus1 »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #34
Tenoke wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't heard of anyone using yahoo for anything except to check ticker prices in years.

My "junk" e-mail address is a yahoo address. I'd actually be a little sad to see it go, I have almost 20 years of random e-mails in there.

Just import all emails from Yahoo to Gmail/Outlook. They provide importers.

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

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Post by skinnymuch »

airstrike wrote: post #90

My first reaction is that this is really good for everyone. For Verizon, as they aptly spun it, it allows them to focus on their core business. I'm not in Media or Telecom, but from the outside looking in, the synergies between those two segments aren't obvious. For Yahoo / AOL / Verizon Advertising, these can be repackaged into sets of assets that "make sense" so that they may be sold to strategic buyers and ultimat…

Do you really believe Apollo won’t gut up Yahoo and AOL or some other situation where any leftover spirit of the entities isn’t mostly gone? This is better than remaining with Verizon since they don’t want to deal with such small stuff. Here’s hoping things end up better for assets.

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

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Post by oaththrowaway »

WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #82
oaththrowaway wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AFAIK, those are still managed by Verizon

They are managed by AOL now. Access is thru mail.aol.com. Will they return to Verizon?

That's interesting. As far as I understood AOL mail was handled by Yahoo at this point.

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

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Post by oaththrowaway »

ksec wrote: post #92
oaththrowaway wrote: post #69

Yahoo employee. AMA

What are the modern tech Stack behind Yahoo? Still have any FreeBSD running? Do Yahoo actually use Vespa [1] for their search engine? [1] https://vespa.ai

I don't have any insight into Yahoo search. Not sure about FreeBSD. My org is all on AWS + Azure

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

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Post by johannes1234321 »

enos_feedler wrote: post #84
StratusBen wrote: post #78

I'm really surprised that Yahoo Finance has not been spun out as an independent company at this point. I think as a stand-alone company it could easily be worth in the billions of dollars. Reportedly Yahoo Finance has revenue between $100M and $250M annually. With the increase in retail interest in investing it seems like a property that could have some growth potential behind it if they did things right and separate…

I'm surprised Twitter hasn't been interested in Yahoo Finance and Yahoo sports apps. The onboarding into Twitter, integration with tweets would be worth billions. A lot of "regular people" use those apps, and Twitter investors are looking for the user growth. Also, if Twitter is going to become a platform for interests/topics, it would be good to have a couple of standalone apps on some core topics.

However when doing that Twitter won't be "neutral" regarding news sources. That might reduce interest of other media to use them ...

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

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Post by the_local_host »

StratusBen wrote: post #78

I'm really surprised that Yahoo Finance has not been spun out as an independent company at this point. I think as a stand-alone company it could easily be worth in the billions of dollars. Reportedly Yahoo Finance has revenue between $100M and $250M annually. With the increase in retail interest in investing it seems like a property that could have some growth potential behind it if they did things right and separate…

Yahoo Finance is so good that when I'm trying to find information about a company, I'll type the company's name into Google, do a bit of reading, then... go over to Yahoo Finance and manually type it in again to look at their stock performance.

It says something that someone as lazy as myself will actually hop out of Google's flow and perform a manual step to go Yahoo Finance.

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