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Re:Yahoo lays off 1,700 and is up for sale by st3v3r on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @01:57PM (#11028703)
"If its not growing, for from many investors, yes, that is a failure."

Then those investors should go invest in something else, and quit trying to push a bunch of shortsighted crap on a company.

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Re:Yahoo lays off 1,700 and is up for sale by billyhoffman on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @02:00PM (#11028735)
I get what you are saying, and even agree to an extent. The fact that Dell had to take itself private to be able to save itself is a good recent example of how the super short term thinking of stock market investors can hurt a company.

That said, if a company doesn't want to be exposed to that sort of investor, then it shouldn't have done IPO and become a publicly traded company.

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Re:Yahoo lays off 1,700 and is up for sale by oldmanjay on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @03:37PM (#11029559)
You understand that "they" in your opinion refers to the people who own yahoo. Why is your opinion more relevant than theirs, precisely?
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Re:Yahoo lays off 1,700 and is up for sale by st3v3r on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @03:47PM (#11029633)
Why is their opinion more relevant than the people that are actually running Yahoo?
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Re:Yahoo lays off 1,700 and is up for sale by kansface on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @04:12PM (#11029803)
The investors (ie, the board) run Yahoo, not the other way around.
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