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Re:What Happened to All 53 of Marissa Mayer's Yahoo Acquisit... by wodenokoto on Thursday June 16, 2016 @07:22AM (#11915379)
She was brought in to stop an ongoing collapse, so I guess you could say she did it after everybody realised that Yahoo was collapsing from the inside out.
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Re:What Happened to All 53 of Marissa Mayer's Yahoo Acquisit... by s_q_b on Thursday June 16, 2016 @08:06AM (#11915537)
Yeah, this is sort of like blaming the fire department for burning down your house.
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Re:What Happened to All 53 of Marissa Mayer's Yahoo Acquisit... by ancientworldnow on Thursday June 16, 2016 @09:09AM (#11915810)
Only if the fire department showed up without water opting instead to spray money at the fire in the hope it would fix itself.
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Re:What Happened to All 53 of Marissa Mayer's Yahoo Acquisit... by pessimizer on Thursday June 16, 2016 @09:33AM (#11915938)
And if the house was Yahoo and the fire was Yahoo circling the drain for years. You're pushing the metaphor to a place where it really doesn't make sense.
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