28 pointsby pier259 months ago3 comments
  • laborcontract9 months ago
    Yahoo throwing its name into the conversation throws me right back to the bad old days of web browsers, when Yahoo’s hideous toolbar was a staple of the ‘helping your grandparents with their computer and wondering what the hell all these things are doing on the screen’ era.

    It’s also making me wonder if we know what we’re really getting into with the chrome divestiture. A Yahoo chrome would make the web a worse place.

    • Doxin9 months ago
      Still better than OpenAI buying it though.
  • KeplerBoy9 months ago
    Yahoo? The finance app?

    What are they up to these days, how are they still paying thousands of employees?

    • TowerTall9 months ago
      The majority of my (small) group of japanese friends are using yahoo as search enigne
      • KeplerBoy9 months ago
        Interesting, I guess yahoo is especially irrelevant here in continental europe and less so in other markets.
    • Larrikin9 months ago
      They have a finance app? It's heavily used in my circle for fantasy sports.
    • mvid9 months ago
      I thought it was the fantasy football app
    • mattl9 months ago
      They own AOL too.
      • KeplerBoy9 months ago
        And yahoo itself is owned by some asset management corporation. I guess that asset management corporation is not in the business of losing money, so somehow yahoo must still have some good income sources.
        • pier259 months ago
          Last time I checked they were making billions per year in revenue
        • flexagoon9 months ago
          > I guess that asset management corporation is not in the business of losing money

          Yeah, the "some asset management corporation" is Verizon Media.

          • amhoab9 months ago
            It's actually Apollo Global Management. Verizon only retained 10% of the company after they sold it.
  • decremental9 months ago
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