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YP Plans First-Round Bid for Yahoo

27 points by uptown 11y ago

voltagex_ 11y ago
Time to back up my Flickr account (again).
HillRat 11y ago
So this is really just a stalking-horse for AT&T to run up the acquisition price for Verizon, right?
- gcb0 11y ago
  or drive the price down. imagine if company X wants to see them in a headline "beating YP, X acquire Yahoo".
janesvilleseo 11y ago
YP would use Yahoo like a directory and sell a crap load of it to its clients. The cost would be 0. This would make it incredibly profitable for YP. They already bundle their print and online advertising in order to save accounts. This would be very profitable for them in the short term. They want the eyeballs to sell because nobody is reading the directory online or off.
redorb 11y ago
Yellow pages and YP.com are dying faster than Yahoo! is. My observation. I just believe Yellow Page phone book advertising and/or directory listing advertising are scams. If they were priced right compared to internet ads CPC - maybe. They aren't cheap though - they sell quarter page ads for lawyers in monthly payment installments lol
lesdeuxmagots 11y ago
YP digital has surprisingly large reach due to its distribution as a default application on AT&T phones. The business prints money, and has a ridiculous trove of local data that very few companies can provide (foursquare, yelp, etc), but which local search providers (Google, Yahoo, etc) need (all about that high intent).
rebootthesystem 11y ago
I fear the main contenders are likely to scrap the excellent Yahoo mail. Time to figure out how to backup and migrate 8 years of emails and move all services using this account for login to a new address. The more time I spend on the 'net the more I am convinced everyone needs to own their own email address and be "portable" as services implode or are discontinued. This includes calendar, address book and anything else. Even with Gmail, if Google doesn't like you it's "poof" and everything is gone.
- bsclifton 11y ago
  Email is worth backing up, just as much as photos, code, or any other files. Grab a client like Thunderbird, setup IMAP, and download/save an archive of all your messages :)
  - aidenn0 11y ago
    I don't know the current status of yahoo mail, but whether or not POP/IMAP has not always been available for free.
  - jtrtoo 11y ago
    I have had great luck using MailStorr to back up and archive: http://www.mailstore.com/en/mailstore-home-email-archiving.aspx http://www.mailstore.com/en/mailstore-home-email-archiving.a...
- aidenn0 11y ago
  8 years? I've had my @geocities.com (which now aliases to @yahoo.com) e-mail address for about 20 years. There are probably on the order of 50-100 services for which that e-mail address is my contact info.
  - vidoc 11y ago
    My email is older than your email!
    - 11y ago
natrius 11y ago
The company that introduced the world to the web is being bought by the yellow pages. This could only be more tragic in iambic pentameter.
Animats 11y ago
The proposed deal is so complicated that it looks more like a tax shelter than a deal for an operating business: ..."a tax-free transaction in which YP would merge with a spun-off subsidiary of Yahoo’s core business." Presumably that means Yahoo minus their stake in Alibaba. That would allow monetizing Yahoo's tax loss.
jtrtoo 11y ago
I read the headline as saying YC rather than YP. Lol

27 points by uptown 11y ago

voltagex_ 11y ago

Time to back up my Flickr account (again).

HillRat 11y ago

So this is really just a stalking-horse for AT&T to run up the acquisition price for Verizon, right?

gcb0 11y ago
or drive the price down. imagine if company X wants to see them in a headline "beating YP, X acquire Yahoo".

janesvilleseo 11y ago

YP would use Yahoo like a directory and sell a crap load of it to its clients. The cost would be 0. This would make it incredibly profitable for YP. They already bundle their print and online advertising in order to save accounts. This would be very profitable for them in the short term. They want the eyeballs to sell because nobody is reading the directory online or off.

redorb 11y ago

Yellow pages and YP.com are dying faster than Yahoo! is. My observation. I just believe Yellow Page phone book advertising and/or directory listing advertising are scams. If they were priced right compared to internet ads CPC - maybe. They aren't cheap though - they sell quarter page ads for lawyers in monthly payment installments lol

lesdeuxmagots 11y ago

YP digital has surprisingly large reach due to its distribution as a default application on AT&T phones. The business prints money, and has a ridiculous trove of local data that very few companies can provide (foursquare, yelp, etc), but which local search providers (Google, Yahoo, etc) need (all about that high intent).

rebootthesystem 11y ago

I fear the main contenders are likely to scrap the excellent Yahoo mail. Time to figure out how to backup and migrate 8 years of emails and move all services using this account for login to a new address. The more time I spend on the 'net the more I am convinced everyone needs to own their own email address and be "portable" as services implode or are discontinued. This includes calendar, address book and anything else. Even with Gmail, if Google doesn't like you it's "poof" and everything is gone.

bsclifton 11y ago
Email is worth backing up, just as much as photos, code, or any other files. Grab a client like Thunderbird, setup IMAP, and download/save an archive of all your messages :)
- aidenn0 11y ago
  I don't know the current status of yahoo mail, but whether or not POP/IMAP has not always been available for free.
- jtrtoo 11y ago
  I have had great luck using MailStorr to back up and archive: http://www.mailstore.com/en/mailstore-home-email-archiving.aspx http://www.mailstore.com/en/mailstore-home-email-archiving.a...
aidenn0 11y ago
8 years? I've had my @geocities.com (which now aliases to @yahoo.com) e-mail address for about 20 years. There are probably on the order of 50-100 services for which that e-mail address is my contact info.
- vidoc 11y ago
  My email is older than your email!
  - 11y ago

natrius 11y ago

The company that introduced the world to the web is being bought by the yellow pages. This could only be more tragic in iambic pentameter.

Animats 11y ago

The proposed deal is so complicated that it looks more like a tax shelter than a deal for an operating business: ..."a tax-free transaction in which YP would merge with a spun-off subsidiary of Yahoo’s core business." Presumably that means Yahoo minus their stake in Alibaba. That would allow monetizing Yahoo's tax loss.

jtrtoo 11y ago

I read the headline as saying YC rather than YP. Lol