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Then why not sell it?
by Jeff_Brown 6y ago
Then why not sell it?
- skinnymuch 6y agoEdit: I think it’s not worth anything positive for Yahoo to sell. I added the last two paragraphs. I assume they sold Delicious and Tumblr because of outcries. I can’t recall if I am misremembering, but I believe Delicious was going to be shut down according to an early leaked slide show before being sold to the YouTube founders. It’s probably not worth selling something for 7 figures. when your parent company is the hugely profitable Verizon, no less, if Yahoo was still an independent $2B company. I assume the web app can’t be sold for too much when it has to get a new domain name and name. Then either Yahoo has to untangle the code or only sell the database. The latter could easily become negative PR depending on what the new owner’s site is like. The former doesn’t seem worth it.
- ink_13 6y agoWasn't del.icio.us sold to Pinboard?
- tshaddox 6y agoYes, and that was the 5th time it had been sold. https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious/ https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious...
- x0x0 6y agoWith a detour through the ex-youtube-folks' company (AVOS), and then someone else. Yahoo did not sell it for $30k.
- skinnymuch 6y agoEventually as others say. The wiki for it goes over the different selling points. Even with Pinboard it was and still is first frozen in place. I think soon it’ll be working again in some capacity. And yeah the final sale to Pinboard was for literal 5 figure peanuts. While I think it was 1000x more when YouTube founders bought it.
- criddell 6y agoMaybe what they would get for it is less than the cost of selling it?