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Yahoo Prepares For A Black Monday

17 points by mqt 18y ago

ardit33 18y ago
yahoo needs a CEO with balls, that is willing to go for it, and just cut the fat on that company. It seems to be a place that has been for long overtaken by midle management, and the coorporate b.s. that comes with it, while the good talent has left already. I am trying to think any great product developed in house in the last year. Maybe Yahoo Answers, is decent, but what else?
- davidw 18y ago
  They do some good open source stuff. Hadoop comes to mind.
  - lyime 18y ago
    You are right they are doing amazing open source stuff and innovation on the open source front. That ultimately helps the community. Although it is not building any value for shareholders. At the end of the day Yahoo is a public company and they need to add more revenue streams and have more profitable strategies/products.
- aston 18y ago
  I think FireEagle might turn out to be pretty cool.
goodkarma 18y ago
>> Yahoo won’t need their search marketing employees any more, possibly 2,000 employees. They have 2,000 people on the payroll just for search marketing, and Panama is the best they can come up with? Ouch.
sdpurtill 18y ago
microsoft thinks yahoo is worth $33 with msft execs, yahoo thinks they're worth $37 with their own execs, the general public thinks they're worth... uh... well before the msft news broke, around $19. either yahoo execs have huge egos and think they're worth 2x as much, or the rest of the world is dumber than the yahoo execs. there's a lot of smart people out there (i.e. all the analysts) and there is no way the yahoo execs are 2x as smart as everybody else. maybe yahoo has something up their sleeves. like a new social network or something. but then again, they've had very little innovation come out of there in the last few years, so i'd put my bets at $20-22 / share when the market closes on monday.
- ovi256 18y ago
  > maybe yahoo has something up their sleeves. like a new social network or something Hahaahaaha... OMG you are a blast. A new social network? And that would help them how? Is that what they really need? Please stop drinking the koolaid. Oh, and they do have Yahoo Profiles, kinda of a social network.
  - dcurtis 18y ago
    They have a ton of social networks. Yahoo Answers, Flickr, etc... Or would those be classified as "communities"?

17 points by mqt 18y ago

yahoo needs a CEO with balls, that is willing to go for it, and just cut the fat on that company. It seems to be a place that has been for long overtaken by midle management, and the coorporate b.s. that comes with it, while the good talent has left already. I am trying to think any great product developed in house in the last year. Maybe Yahoo Answers, is decent, but what else?

davidw 18y ago
They do some good open source stuff. Hadoop comes to mind.
- lyime 18y ago
  You are right they are doing amazing open source stuff and innovation on the open source front. That ultimately helps the community. Although it is not building any value for shareholders. At the end of the day Yahoo is a public company and they need to add more revenue streams and have more profitable strategies/products.
aston 18y ago
I think FireEagle might turn out to be pretty cool.

goodkarma 18y ago

>> Yahoo won’t need their search marketing employees any more, possibly 2,000 employees. They have 2,000 people on the payroll just for search marketing, and Panama is the best they can come up with? Ouch.

sdpurtill 18y ago

microsoft thinks yahoo is worth $33 with msft execs, yahoo thinks they're worth $37 with their own execs, the general public thinks they're worth... uh... well before the msft news broke, around $19. either yahoo execs have huge egos and think they're worth 2x as much, or the rest of the world is dumber than the yahoo execs. there's a lot of smart people out there (i.e. all the analysts) and there is no way the yahoo execs are 2x as smart as everybody else. maybe yahoo has something up their sleeves. like a new social network or something. but then again, they've had very little innovation come out of there in the last few years, so i'd put my bets at $20-22 / share when the market closes on monday.

ovi256 18y ago
> maybe yahoo has something up their sleeves. like a new social network or something Hahaahaaha... OMG you are a blast. A new social network? And that would help them how? Is that what they really need? Please stop drinking the koolaid. Oh, and they do have Yahoo Profiles, kinda of a social network.
- dcurtis 18y ago
  They have a ton of social networks. Yahoo Answers, Flickr, etc... Or would those be classified as "communities"?