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So what exactly does Yahoo do these days?

• supportengineer 3y ago
  Mail and Finance
• fermentation 3y ago
  Seems really popular in Japan for some reason.
  • toddmorey 3y ago
    NTT investment/ partnership
  • ilickpoolalgae 3y ago
    I don't think the Japanese entity and US entity have any relation to each other anymore. I think US entity divested itself of Yahoo Japan completely in 2018 or so. Yahoo Japan is now collectively owned by Softbank and Naver under some holding company (it was big news in Japan when the merger happened).
    • mathrawka 3y ago
      They actually rebranded from "Yahoo! Japan" to "Line Yahoo" https://www.lycorp.co.jp/ja/ https://www.lycorp.co.jp/ja/
      • lmm 3y ago
        It's not just a rebranding, they've merged with Line.
        • mathrawka 3y ago
          It's a bit more nuanced than that. The merger was awhile ago, ZHoldings was the parent company of Yahoo! JP and Line. ZHoldings is now Line Yahoo. The footer of yahoo.co.jp has changed from Yahoo! Japan / ZHoldings to Line Yahoo.
          • lmm 3y ago
            Legally being placed under the same corporate entity was a while ago. As is normal for big acquisitions, actually merging the businesses is a much slower process (allegedly part of the reasons BA's first days of operating at Heathrow Terminal 5 were a mess is that it was the first time BEA and BOAC were actually working together). My point is just, from what I've heard the switch to Line Yahoo reflects a real integration of the businesses, not just a change of brand.
  • jfax 3y ago
    No relation to Yahoo in the US. Spun off from a previous incarnation of Yahoo in that doesn't exist anymore. In practice, they're two companies that confusingly share the same name.
• throwaway280383 3y ago
  Ex-yahoo here (Quit in 2022, at the height of salary boom :) Yahoo is a profitable company with atleast 5B $ in revenue. Search and Mail are extremely profitable businesses. When was the last time you changed your mail id? Search is atleast 2B $ plus in revenue. Mail is 1B $ plus in revenue. Yahoo Finance, Yahoo sports, yahoo news are all highly trafficked websites although I dont know the revenue numbers. I do wager that if yahoo is put on stock market, its valuation will be around $10B although private equity has spent only 4B$ on acquiring them. Who knows what went into the discussions. Why did I leave? Because I figured my career growth is elsewhere. One thing I learnt at yahoo is that large companies take a very long time to die . You can have a profitable career in them, even if YoY growth is slowing.
  • slimsag 3y ago
    Wow, search.yahoo.com actually looks kind of nice/snappy
    • febeling 3y ago
      indeed. Shows again the milliseconds really count
    • rgrove 3y ago
      It always has! This is one of Yahoo's best-kept secrets, sadly. (I worked on Yahoo Search — and search.yahoo.com — from 2007 to 2010)
    • dathinab 3y ago
      and in difference to google you don't get swamped by ads that much, I mean the search results seem seriously better then 2023 google...
    • gardenhedge 3y ago
      search results page isn't even responsive. Because I am using vertical tabs I need to scroll sideways..
    • nashashmi 3y ago
• owlninja 3y ago
  It feels like their fantasy sports platforms are pretty popular.