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Yahoo to Say It's Exploring Strategic Alternatives
- profeta 11y agobloomberg is limiting it's articles to 140 chars now?
- metaphorm 11y agoI had to check. 562. It would all fit in 5 tweets.
- profeta 11y agodetails, details. :D but, if you take out the part that is completely irrelevant about how they reported something that did not happen about yahoo selling itself, then it is probably less than 140.
- ljk 11y ago*its
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- Steko 11y agoThey should be commended for just linking to the previous article instead of rehashing 90% of it again.
- dfar1 11y agoDear 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 everything, because right now you can't do one thing well. Stop with the ads that take over the whole screen. Stop copying and pasting or embedding content from other sites Stop using these crazy layouts that change all the time. It's impossible to find what you are looking for and it takes forever to load. Promote content that matters. Assume your audience is intelligent Be creative Be innovative
- muglug 11y agoOk, but you've destroyed their business model. How do they generate revenue from webmail now? Millions rely on the yahoo webmail interface, and every request that server fields subtracts from the company's bottom line.
- funkyy 11y agoThey can advertise, but ad just above the first message drives miss-clicks. Its tricky way to drive CTR up.
- brandon272 11y agoI would love to use Yahoo! as a "homepage" and get my news from there, if not only to show support for this company because the Yahoo! brand holds a place in my heart. ... But the duplicitous insertion of "sponsored" content that is intended to look like news among the legitimate news is too much for me to handle. Trying to consume news requires enough focus, nevermind having to scan each news story on their homepage to determine if it's a form of actual journalism or someone trying to sell me something. A major problem with Yahoo! is the lack of compelling reason to even visit their properties. Everything is half-baked.
- ljk 11y agoI'd imagine most of yahoo's users are not as tech-savvy to know how to disable ads, and since so many people use it it's probably full of these "common-denominator" stuff that we're not used to
- jonursenbach 11y ago> "common-denominator" Also known as normal people.
- ljk 11y agohaha touche
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- jvandonsel 11y agoMerge with AOL!
- colmvp 11y agoIt's strange to me that this article with such brevity is on the front page, yet the NYTimes article about the difficulties of individuals to survive in retirement age got bumped?
- kqr2 11y agoReference to LA Times article and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11022097 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11022097
- Riod 11y agoThis reads like a classic sale script. Cut costs(hence the 15% cuts), focus on generating revenue (comments about focusing on core areas), then sell the business. Should be interesting
- henrikschroder 11y agoIt's interesting that the Alibaba holdings are more of a liability than an asset in this situation. YHOO is essentially a proxy for BABA, nothing Yahoo does affects the stock price in any meaningful way, and the value of the core business is effectively negative, if you subtract the post-tax value of Alibaba, Yahoo Japan, and cash on hand. But the value of a declining business with billions in revenue each year must be positive. So selling off Alibaba and Yahoo Japan is the best bet, except you have investors demanding that it be done tax-free, so you can't just sell them, even though the decline of the value of Alibaba during the time it takes to do this process might be larger than the taxes. If Alibaba keeps going down in value, selling it now gives you more money than selling it tax-free in the future. But that might still get you sued by the shareholders, which is stupid. A reverse spin-off, i.e. selling the core business, has some funny implications as well. Many employees are on work visas, which are tied to a specific employer at a specific address. If this changes, all of those visas become invalid. Obviously, selling the assets and shrinking the market cap, would make it much easier for someone to buy Yahoo.
- Riod 11y agoWhy the assumption that BABA keeps declining in value? Shareholders probably have more faith in BABA than Yahoo core. Would make sense to sell core yahoo and keep Yahoo Japan and BABA under the Yahoo ticker. Reason being the tax from selling the latter two affects your PV more if you believe they will keep growing.
- yeukhon 11y agoIt won't stay at its peak, very normal for most companies after IPO. BABA will continue to do okay in China as the ecommerce market is huge. The challenge BABA faces is quality rather than quantity and I don't think Alibaba is addressing it well. But I believe the real problem is Yahoo being a media/technology company, Yahoo must improve its core business in order to be sustainable in the long run. They can sell BABA now, walk away, and reorganize the entire company from scratch. I am not saying people are greedy, but when you really have the chance to start from scratch do it. But I don't think anyone has any idea where Yahoo should fit. Content? Search? Where does Yahoo stand? This is why the shareholders are not willing to sell anything because they themselves are clueless.
- vidoc 11y agoThe best video yahoo made, ever ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E37-iqnvzZ4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E37-iqnvzZ4
- mtmail 11y agoThe article is about strategic decisions Yahoo! faces as a business. And you're using a five year old anti-LGBT bullying video as a sarcastic joke? That's double insulting.
- vidoc 11y agoDid you actually watch the video ? It's exactly the opposite of an anti-LGBT video
- ante_annum 11y agofive year old anti-LGBT bullying video five year old anti LGBT-bullying video.
- vidoc 11y agoyou won
- alttab 11y ago"We admit we have no vision for this company, or its purpose, outside of maximizing shareholder value. Literally, we have no reason to exist other than preserving capital."
- charlesdm 11y agoThey should probably be returning capital at this point, instead of preserving. Yahoo is way past its expiration date.
- foltz 11y agoI fear for Flickr.