22 pointsby pier258 hours ago3 comments
  • laborcontract3 hours 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.

  • KeplerBoy8 hours ago
    Yahoo? The finance app?

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

    • Larrikin7 hours ago
      They have a finance app? It's heavily used in my circle for fantasy sports.
    • mattl8 hours ago
      They own AOL too.
      • KeplerBoy7 hours 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.
        • flexagoon7 hours ago
          > I guess that asset management corporation is not in the business of losing money

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

          • amhoab6 hours ago
            It's actually Apollo Global Management. Verizon only retained 10% of the company after they sold it.
        • pier257 hours ago
          Last time I checked they were making billions per year in revenue
  • decremental6 hours ago
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