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Re:Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarante... by hnzix on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @05:55PM (#19619353)
I wonder what Yahoo would look like now if Jerry had accepted the Microsoft acquisition. Yahoo was already in troubled waters at the time, in hindsight it looks like a missed opportunity.
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Re:Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarante... by cududa on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @06:01PM (#19619408)
Probably completely non-existent and shut down. Both Ballmer and Gates have commented that it would’ve been a monumental mistake
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Re:Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarante... by hangonhn on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @06:22PM (#19619570)
But that's part of doing business. The shareholders and employees (many of whom are also shareholders) might be in a lot better shape had the deal gone through. I'm skeptical that those people are better off with the Verizon deal.
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Re:Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarante... by duxup on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @06:10PM (#19619491)
Microsoft got some search tech out of them later.... that's all that would be left I imagine.
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