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Yahoo’s Big Question - What Is It?

12 points by mjfern 14y ago

jgrahamc 14y ago
Similar to what my alter ego pointed out: http://doublestealth.blogspot.com/2012/07/some-advice-for-marissa-mayer.html http://doublestealth.blogspot.com/2012/07/some-advice-for-ma...
atarian 14y ago
According to Steve Jobs, it's a tech company: http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/interviews/240000230 http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/interviews/24...
meric 14y ago
1. Define Yahoo as a media company. 2. Negotiate executive compensation based on performance of Yahoo against benchmark group of other media companies (many of these media companies are losing profit as if they are hot potatoes.), such as fairfax media. http://au.finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=FXJ.AX&t=1y http://au.finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=FXJ.AX&t=1y 3. Profit!! There is no ???.
snowwrestler 14y ago
I feel like this question is pointless gotcha journalism. You could apply it to any major tech company and you would get muddled answers. - What is Google? They are a search company. So why do they have an email service and a cell phone operating system? Why are they inventing self-driving cars and buying major hardware companies? Why are they pushing a social network so hard? - What is Apple? They are an electronic device company. But they have by far the most successful retail stores in the world, and they are one of the largest online retailers in the world. - Speaking of retail, what is Amazon? The world's largest online retailer, right? So why are they running a huge cloud computing project? Why are they making tablets? - What is Microsoft? The world's largest software company. So why does their gaming division primarily sell hardware? Why did they just come out with their own tablets?
- meric 14y ago
  Consumers "know" what each of all three of those companies do, more so that with Yahoo (...since we're asking what yahoo is doing).
- czr80 14y ago
  The Apple one doesn't really work, since the stores are primarily to sell their own products. Apple is an outlier when it comes to focus, though. But despite the fact that most of these companies do multiple things, it's clear where their core competitive advantage lies: Google is search, Amazon is online retail, Microsoft is Windows/Office, Yahoo is ?

12 points by mjfern 14y ago

Similar to what my alter ego pointed out: http://doublestealth.blogspot.com/2012/07/some-advice-for-marissa-mayer.html http://doublestealth.blogspot.com/2012/07/some-advice-for-ma...

atarian 14y ago

According to Steve Jobs, it's a tech company: http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/interviews/240000230 http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/interviews/24...

meric 14y ago

1. Define Yahoo as a media company. 2. Negotiate executive compensation based on performance of Yahoo against benchmark group of other media companies (many of these media companies are losing profit as if they are hot potatoes.), such as fairfax media. http://au.finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=FXJ.AX&t=1y http://au.finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=FXJ.AX&t=1y 3. Profit!! There is no ???.

snowwrestler 14y ago

I feel like this question is pointless gotcha journalism. You could apply it to any major tech company and you would get muddled answers. - What is Google? They are a search company. So why do they have an email service and a cell phone operating system? Why are they inventing self-driving cars and buying major hardware companies? Why are they pushing a social network so hard? - What is Apple? They are an electronic device company. But they have by far the most successful retail stores in the world, and they are one of the largest online retailers in the world. - Speaking of retail, what is Amazon? The world's largest online retailer, right? So why are they running a huge cloud computing project? Why are they making tablets? - What is Microsoft? The world's largest software company. So why does their gaming division primarily sell hardware? Why did they just come out with their own tablets?

meric 14y ago
Consumers "know" what each of all three of those companies do, more so that with Yahoo (...since we're asking what yahoo is doing).
czr80 14y ago
The Apple one doesn't really work, since the stores are primarily to sell their own products. Apple is an outlier when it comes to focus, though. But despite the fact that most of these companies do multiple things, it's clear where their core competitive advantage lies: Google is search, Amazon is online retail, Microsoft is Windows/Office, Yahoo is ?