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Part of it is that this is HN, and Yahoo as an internet company has been boring for a long, long time[1]. Another part of it is that it shows the incredible va
by __jal 10y ago
Part of it is that this is HN, and Yahoo as an internet company has been boring for a long, long time[1].
Another part of it is that it shows the incredible value of inertia. Sports scores and email is with $5B.
And I think a third is just a bit of schadenfreude from the internet insider set. Selling half of yourself to a Baby Bell-revenant and turning the rest into a tracking stock is a sad way for the first internet directory to die.
[1] The last vaguely interesting thing I can remember was Yahoo Pipes.
- paulddraper 10y ago> Part of it is that this is HN, and Yahoo as an internet company has been boring for a long, long time It's like the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M). They make $30 billion in annual sales with 55k products. How often do you hear about them? They're big, profitable, and news is mostly boring to HN interests.
- vcool07 10y agoI did not know that's what 3M stands for, learn a new thing every day here at HN :)
- kriro 10y agoThey are used in many MBA courses as the reference story for a conglomerate and also for the idea of core competencies, namely "applying coatings to backings".
- barrkel 10y agoI heard loads about 3M when I was in college. It was probably one of the most frequently mentioned companies in the context of strategic management.
- zump 10y agoSame with the semiconductor industry. There are many profitable industries that don't release a webapp or use a JS framework.
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- linsomniac 10y agoPart of why you probably don't hear about "Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing" is that the company is no longer named that. :-) Wikipedia says "formerly known as". But, fascinating, I didn't know that.
- paulddraper 10y ago> no longer named that And now Yahoo will be Altaba :)
- keypusher 10y agoI mentioned the same thing to a former Yahoo employee recently (about Pipes), he looked at me for a second and responded "Well, there was Hadoop."