Yahoos Freaking Out Over 20% Layoff Rumors

Re:Yahoos Freaking Out Over 20% Layoff Rumors by phlux on Thursday November 11, 2010 @06:28PM (#1895811)

Honest question; what valuable/useful services does Yahoo still offer?

I haven't logged into Yahoo mail in more than 2 years.

I do see that finance.yahoo is still a good site -- but hardly an entire business.

They dont have core technology in search any longer, right?

Ill have to look into what S4 is... ok that looks interesting. Is it competing with such things as DataSift? -- well its OSS - so not a revenue stream for them, yet...

I am seriously trying to understand how they would rebuild a business. Serious pivot is needed it would seem?

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Re:Yahoos Freaking Out Over 20% Layoff Rumors by Encosia on Thursday November 11, 2010 @07:57PM (#1896074)

Unless GMail has overtaken it very recently, Yahoo Mail is still second only to Hotmail in terms of user base. The last I saw, both were ahead of GMail by a fairly large margin.

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Re:Yahoos Freaking Out Over 20% Layoff Rumors by mikebo on Thursday November 11, 2010 @06:46PM (#1895868)

I really like Flickr still. I worry about what will happen to it longterm.

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Re:Yahoos Freaking Out Over 20% Layoff Rumors by Zev on Thursday November 11, 2010 @06:38PM (#1895840)

136 Million unique visitors[1]. Even if its not completely accurate, its still a very, very large number.

I know plenty of people who use Yahoo as their homepage, for email and for search -- even if it isn't powered by Yahoo anymore, it still gets plenty of uses.

1. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/yahoo.com/

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Re:Yahoos Freaking Out Over 20% Layoff Rumors by carbocation on Thursday November 11, 2010 @07:45PM (#1896043)

They actually have great fantasy sports offerings.

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Re:Yahoos Freaking Out Over 20% Layoff Rumors by iampims on Thursday November 11, 2010 @07:38PM (#1896026)

Delicious, Flickr, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News…

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Re:Yahoos Freaking Out Over 20% Layoff Rumors by patorjk on Thursday November 11, 2010 @08:56PM (#1896215)

I use Flickr, Delicious, YUI and Yahoo! Pipes. YQL also looked interesting, but I've never used it.

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Re:Yahoos Freaking Out Over 20% Layoff Rumors by S_A_P on Thursday November 11, 2010 @11:17PM (#1896510)

I actually think that YQL is an awesome tool that has alt of value to developers. I actually scrape a hacker news feed to my personal site with YQL.

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