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Re:Warren Buffett and Dan Gilbert Unite in Bid to Acquire Yahoo by tosseraccount on Monday May 16, 2016 @02:45PM (#11708575)
Check. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/19/yahoo-qua...

Yahoo announced falling revenues and a quarterly loss of $99.2m on Tuesday - from April 19, 2016

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Re:Warren Buffett and Dan Gilbert Unite in Bid to Acquire Yahoo by taylorwc on Monday May 16, 2016 @05:48PM (#11709909)
You zoomed in on a quarter, which is not a good way to look at it. From an annual standpoint, they have been profitable for each of the last 4 years, excluding 2015. 2015 Included a massive impairment of goodwill (which is not a cash expense) at $4.4B[0] and would have otherwise been profitable.

[0] http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1011006/0001193125164...

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Re:Warren Buffett and Dan Gilbert Unite in Bid to Acquire Yahoo by cscurmudgeon on Monday May 16, 2016 @11:52PM (#11711263)
Just one quarter due to accounting. Annually quite profitable. Ugh, I wish the Guardian was more financially literate.
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Re:Warren Buffett and Dan Gilbert Unite in Bid to Acquire Yahoo by easytiger on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @04:11AM (#11711984)
> Ugh, I wish the Guardian was more financially literate.

Then how could it bend the facts to meet their bias?

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