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Re:Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit from Yahoo Deal by x0x0 on Thursday December 15, 2016 @05:33PM (#13189247)
First assumption, other costs are negligible: no, I'm not. Every dollar spent on salary is a dollar that doesn't go to profit.

Second assumption: letting 80% of staff go won't hurt. For that, I simply have to describe what I've heard from friends / coworkers / scuttlebutt about working at yahoo. But there are a lot of eng doing maybe a couple hours of work per day.

from

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/YHOO/financials?p=YHOO

under opex it looks like there's plenty of fat to cut.

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Re:Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit from Yahoo Deal by bduerst on Thursday December 15, 2016 @05:57PM (#13189464)
By that logic, businesses would never employ people because it's a cost that doesn't go to profit.

And the fat on that OPEX you linked is the writeoff from the Tumblr purchase.

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Re:Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit from Yahoo Deal by x0x0 on Thursday December 15, 2016 @06:06PM (#13189531)
For companies where employees add little/no value (yahoo!), then yes.
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