Yahoo Decline and Acquisitions
Comments discuss Yahoo's business decline, poor acquisition decisions like Tumblr, over-reliance on its Alibaba stake for value, and speculation about selling the company to Microsoft, Google, or others amid its irrelevance.
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From Yahoo's perspective, was the investment worth it?
I'm guessing you're referencing Google beating out Yahoo? Could you elaborate more? Is Yahoo still a viable business minus their acquisitions?
Seriously just buy the company already. Yahoo is dead anyway.
We might want to consider that Yahoo is corrupted from the inside and is using its large range of financial assets to spread its wealth via various sidesteps and investment networks. Unless they will release some massive product or actually intergrate all services into their core, what else is it for that they are spending such amounts of financial assets on these companies. To please the eye for a rehash of the Yahoo brand? One could argue that it would be more wise to _move_ the core to the Tu
Yahoo has been downhill for years. They should have acquired Google, YouTube & Facebook.
The more Yahoo wait less they will get. Just sell it to MS now!
Google itself: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/remember-yahoo-turned-down-1-...
Trying to think of explanations for this. First thing that comes to mind is a Dilbert cartoon where the new CEO takes over to run the company into the ground. While Yahoo's news, shopping, maps and search traffic is probably only a fraction of Google's it's still worth something. Why not install an insider at Yahoo and slowly help the traffic move over?
Yahoo could have been society’s loss leader.
It doesn't turn like Yahoo.Yahoo made the super wise decision to buy part of Alibaba a few years ago, and now the whole Yahoo is worth nothing more than its share of Alibaba!