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Yang was a pioneer at the head of an exciting part of Internet history. Yang worked the helm for over a decade and the company did lots of amazing things, but i
by trickjarrett 18y ago
Yang was a pioneer at the head of an exciting part of Internet history. Yang worked the helm for over a decade and the company did lots of amazing things, but in this economy and combined with Yahoo's problems before the economic issues, it really was an impossible task for Yang to keep his job.
I don't think Microsoft will come in on this one. I really think Murdoch is much more likely, no one is saying it but a Yahoo/MySpace merger is something that scares me.
Could Yahoo and Facebook join forces? Maybe but I don't see a company which is yet to be profitable as being able to buy a financially struggling behemoth.
And Google + Yahoo = anti-trust suit.
So we're left with who can replace Yang? To be honest, I fully expect it to be someone I've /never/ heard of.
- olefoo 18y agoI cringe at the thought of hearing a radio ad along the lines of "You've got flickr in your myspace/You've got myspace in your flickr.", like it's a good thing.
- Brushfire 18y ago+1. The ridiculous string of names that you could get from any of the possible mergers is definitely weird. AOL -"Bebo", "TMZ", "Truveo", YAHOO - "Del.icio.us", "Yahoo", "Flickr", "OneSearch", "alibaba" News Corp - "Myspace", "Sky", "FX" Microsoft - Actually, most of these sound semi normal. However, the fact that I also cant think of any of their brands is an entirely different problem.
- netcan 18y agoA few more bad news days & Yahoo could become attractive as an all out buy.
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