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"Selling off the worthwhile parts of the company in order to make stacks of cash" is just how capitalists work.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 12y ago
"Selling off the worthwhile parts of the company in order to make stacks of cash" is just how capitalists work.
- charlesdm 12y agoNot always a bad thing. In this case, I'd say it makes a lot of sense. Do Yahoo at this point still even own any interesting assets? Not counting passive investments, such as BABA or Yahoo Japan stock
- skuhn 12y agoTwo things come to mind that a potential acquirer might be interested in: 1. The sheer volume of traffic, available pretty cheaply. While their sites are largely in decline and the focus is still all over the map, I could see their sites carved up among parties interested in a unique views bump (however temporary) -- point news.yahoo.com to Huffington Post, sports.yahoo.com to ESPN, etc. The brand and site content itself is probably of no real value at this point, with a few notable exceptions like Flickr and Tumblr (and other missing-e sites). 2. All of the user data waiting to be mined. Yahoo Mail has a ton of e-mails sitting around, maybe you'd like to do something with those? Yahoo has been mostly benevolent when it comes to their trove of information, but as an acquisition target this becomes an asset to be exploited. Anyone buying Yahoo isn't buying them to run it as an on-going concern for another 20 years.