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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20102379-93/revisiting-yahoos-blown-$44.6-billion-sale-to-microsoft
Today Yahoo!'s board of directors fired it's CEO over the phone. Ouch. But not surprising, those are the same Yahoos that declined a $45 billion purchase bid from Microsoft. A deal I think most thought was way too much for Yahoo and yet amazingly Yahoo declined anyway (they wanted even more money). Since then Yahoo's shares have lost half it's value and nobody loves them anymore.
Nobody can save Yahoo. We can just watch it wither up and die slowly.
I still use their movie search though to check out movies and trailers. I guess I better look around for alternatives with the way they are going.
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yahoo has a movie search? 
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http://movies.yahoo.com/
I love it. 
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Nobody can save Yahoo. We can just watch it wither up and die slowly.
They are slowly killing themselves....I keep sending them feedback to stop F'ning with their main page features and stop forcing people to use the NEW YAHOO MAIL! but they havent listened the last two times.
Their users are getting OLDER, with age, change is not taken lightly or willingly. So, in the last month, I have had to go around and put 10 people back on Yahoo Classic despite Yahoo telling me that it does not exist anymore.
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Ravynmagi posted:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20102379-93/revisiting-yahoos-blown-$44.6-billion-sale-to-microsoft
Today Yahoo!'s board of directors fired it's CEO over the phone. Ouch. But not surprising, those are the same Yahoos that declined a $45 billion purchase bid from Microsoft. A deal I think most thought was way too much for Yahoo and yet amazingly Yahoo declined anyway (they wanted even more money). Since then Yahoo's shares have lost half it's value and nobody loves them anymore.
Nobody can save Yahoo. We can just watch it wither up and die slowly.
I still use their movie search though to check out movies and trailers. I guess I better look around for alternatives with the way they are going.
Yea, when I saw that Yahoo! declined that MS purchase I was like "WTF?". That company is ultimately doomed unless they pull a figurative rabbit out of a hat. They have nothing anyone wants.
And the ex CEO will be fine. Bartz is wealthy already, once ran Autodesk, and was outted for basically not being happy that the company was stagnant (which is what everyone else thinks, too). This was probably a blessing in disguise for her.
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Being fired is probably even better for her, I bet this way she got a nice severance package.
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Looks like about 10 million in severance (ballpark). Wish I got paid so well for getting fired without cause (after causing / participating in the company losing half of its value...)
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AOL would like for Yahoo to buy it and name AOL's CEO as the new CEO of Yahoo.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-09/aol-said-to-discuss-deal-with-yahoo-advisers.html
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i use yahoo finance.
only because i like having boards where people can talk about certain stocks. it's a crappy message board system though but no one else has one worth a damn.
i also use flickr. picasa has a better setup but flickr has the communities and doesnt have that 1 gb cap.
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Greybear1andonly posted:
Ravynmagi posted:
Nobody can save Yahoo. We can just watch it wither up and die slowly.
They are slowly killing themselves....I keep sending them feedback to stop F'ning with their main page features and stop forcing people to use the NEW YAHOO MAIL! but they havent listened the last two times.
Their users are getting OLDER, with age, change is not taken lightly or willingly. So, in the last month, I have had to go around and put 10 people back on Yahoo Classic despite Yahoo telling me that it does not exist anymore.
i've done the same (repeatedly sent feedback)...and have since stopped using their site. I couldn't figure out how to get my classic page back...and didn't care enough to fight with them.
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Your gonna love this.....DL Kaspersky's Rescue CD or any other Linux Live CD. Burn the ISO. Boot to the CD. Use the browser. Access your Account.
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You know, i wouldn't be surprised to see Microsoft doing another bid (really cheaper than the last one) once Yahoo hit the bottom of the barrel or is near to.
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Greybear...why does that cause yahoo to deliver a "classic page" ? Missing java...or something else?
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Pretty much missing alot of things But yeah it looks to me like Java.
Something stupidier about that new Yahoo Mail page. If you access 2 or more Yahoo accounts on the same computer, youll notice that ALL of them are not new. So, you have to use the same as above on all Affected accounts.
My wifes account on her computer has never even started the stupid string of pages attempting to switch her.
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