Mozilla could walk away from Yahoo deal and get more than $1B

Re:Mozilla could walk away from Yahoo deal and get more than... by aphextron on Thursday July 07, 2016 @02:40PM (#12051268)

To be fair this is generally the last acts of any dying company. Try to buy/hire your way out of irrelevance only to burn up the last bits of liquidity your investors could hope to get back.

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Re:Mozilla could walk away from Yahoo deal and get more than... by cscurmudgeon on Thursday July 07, 2016 @07:44PM (#12052783)

What would you call Google's billion dollar payout to Apple to be the default search engine?

Or Google's other traffic buying programs.

Last acts of a dying company?

Google is light years ahead of Yahoo in PR.

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Re:Mozilla could walk away from Yahoo deal and get more than... by SeanBoocock on Thursday July 07, 2016 @09:15PM (#12053078)

I would call it roughly 5% of Alphabet's Q1 2016 revenue.

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Re:Mozilla could walk away from Yahoo deal and get more than... by cscurmudgeon on Thursday July 07, 2016 @11:23PM (#12053411)

So yay monopoly and cartels?

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Re:Mozilla could walk away from Yahoo deal and get more than... by BinaryIdiot on Thursday July 07, 2016 @02:45PM (#12051297)

Maybe? At least anecdotely I almost always see spending cuts over and over until the workforce is dwindling with no promises of job security. This seems bizarre to me but I don't have data to say how common it is. Maybe it's different with a more media focused company?

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