Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo (2008)

Re:Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo (2008) by Javimoya on Monday May 03, 2021 @09:26AM (#27024770)

Back in 2000, Telefonica bought Lycos for 12,5B$... A few years later were sold again for a few millions

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Re:Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo (2008) by mrweasel on Monday May 03, 2021 @09:31AM (#27024841)

The owners of the Danish Yahoo clone Jubii got rich by selling to Lycos, who sold it back to a Danish media company. It’s now owned by a Norweigen company. With each sale the site loses value.

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Re:Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo (2008) by Nition on Monday May 03, 2021 @04:21PM (#27030162)

2013: Yahoo buys Tumblr for $1.1B.

2017: Verizon buys Yahoo for $4.8B.

2019: Verizon sells Tumblr to Automattic for reportedly <$3M.

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