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It makes sense. Yahoo's last assets were its fantasy sports league, its email service, maybe Yahoo finance, its brand, and its massive user base. Within the la
by jimmywanger 10y ago
It makes sense. Yahoo's last assets were its fantasy sports league, its email service, maybe Yahoo finance, its brand, and its massive user base.
Within the last couple of weeks, they've tarnished both their brand and their email service. I doubt very much that their fantasy leagues and Yahoo finance really bring as much revenue as ads from email and ads targeted to its massive user base.
What exactly is Verizon bidding on now?
- mc32 10y agoAlso Flickr --Flickr is like Y!'s YouTube but with less potential of being massively profitable. I think Y! still tries to figure out how to monetize it more. Unfortunately it's not like they can set-up a bunch of Photography Spaces/Studios and groom star photographers who would bring money in for them --but it has a pretty good (loyal) community.
- ngokevin 10y agoHmm, they just shut down their Flickr Marketplace.
- nugget 10y agoEmail is the crown jewel - by far their most lucrative property. Verizon may be waiting to see if there's any measurable user churn due to the recent news, although that takes some time to shake out.
- jimmywanger 10y agoI think you also missed their homepage and useraccounts, which continues to get a huge amount of traffic. Granted, people who use Yahoo´s homepage/homepage probably aren´t the most sophisticated users, but the sheer number of eyeballs probably counts for something. So you have the brand/homepage, which is tarnished by their leak and subsequent refusal to reset passwords (anecdotally, even my mom asked me how to reset her password) and their email is tarnished (although I don't know how much their userbase cares about privacy) by their scanning of emails for the NSA.