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Re:Verizon Sells AOL and Yahoo to Apollo for $5B by basch on Monday May 03, 2021 @02:04PM (#27028529)
I actually think their real opportunity is reviving Yahoo Messenger / AIM over the top of web sites. Similar to facebook chat functioning at the bottom/side of the screen while browsing facebook, if you are on Yahoo Finance, Fantasy, or any of the news sites, having chat overlayed. Opening Yahoo News to get to chat. It creates this cyclical feedback loop of opening news to get to chat, and opening chat to get to news.

Obviously with desktop no longer being the dominant market, this might not work everywhere, but Yahoo Finance + Yahoo Messenger was at one point the intercom of Wall Street.

And if there was ANYTHING worth reviving from this entire blob, it would be Yahoo Pipes!

I'm also shocked Microsoft wouldnt want a hand in cleaning this up. Migrate Yahoo Mail and AOL Mail into exchange like they did Hotmail. Another stab at the Adtech market, of which they are already partners with this beast. Buy this company and sell the news/dialup divisions. Relaunch AIM and Yahoo Messenger as Skype clients with Yellow / Purple skins, and cross communication. It's not uncommon to sell identical products under different brand badges.

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Re:Verizon Sells AOL and Yahoo to Apollo for $5B by oblio on Monday May 03, 2021 @02:40PM (#27028998)
> I actually think their real opportunity is reviving Yahoo Messenger / AIM over the top of web sites.

YM! at least has been killed. They've migrated the service and one day I received a notification that all my contacts and the message archive would be deleted.

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Re:Verizon Sells AOL and Yahoo to Apollo for $5B by basch on Monday May 03, 2021 @02:59PM (#27029250)
AIM was killed as well.
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Re:Verizon Sells AOL and Yahoo to Apollo for $5B by jijji on Monday May 03, 2021 @09:08PM (#27032956)
Verizon killed commenting on the news section last year, so I doubt they would be interested in revising the instant messaging functionality of YIM... Maybe the new owners might take this route, it remains to be seen.
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