Yahoo to lay off more than 20% of staff as it shrinks ad biz

Re:Yahoo to lay off more than 20% of staff as it shrinks ad biz by satvikpendem on Thursday February 09, 2023 @02:21PM (#34729719)

I didn't know Yahoo still had employees. What do they do?

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Re:Yahoo to lay off more than 20% of staff as it shrinks ad biz by cinntaile on Thursday February 09, 2023 @02:51PM (#34730277)

They slowly die.

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Re:Yahoo to lay off more than 20% of staff as it shrinks ad biz by satvikpendem on Thursday February 09, 2023 @04:00PM (#34731368)

Well, don't we all

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Re:Yahoo to lay off more than 20% of staff as it shrinks ad biz by Macha on Thursday February 09, 2023 @03:01PM (#34730453)

Ad Tech, Mail, Finance, Sports (especially fantasy football is big), TechCrunch, Engadget.

Mail is a lot of legacy users, Finance and Sports are actually decently liked in their circles, TechCrunch and Engadget you might not know are owned by Yahoo.

Ad Tech had three major units, two of which are being shut down by this move. They were once third place after Google and Facebook, but I think Amazon and the trade desk have overtaken them since.

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Re:Yahoo to lay off more than 20% of staff as it shrinks ad biz by meese712 on Thursday February 09, 2023 @03:01PM (#34730466)

Yahoo is somehow the ninth most visited website. I guess people still use their (well Microsoft's) search.

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Re:Yahoo to lay off more than 20% of staff as it shrinks ad biz by honkler on Thursday February 09, 2023 @04:03PM (#34731423)

you mean yahoo finance and yahoo sports.

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Re:Yahoo to lay off more than 20% of staff as it shrinks ad biz by orionion on Thursday February 09, 2023 @05:43PM (#34732775)

First they deleted all my old "Yahoo Groups" files.

Then I had a prolonged illness where I couldn't use my old Yahoo e-mail accounts.

They deleted my e-mails. ALL of them.

Now "THEY" are being deleted.

Maybe there is a just universe after all...

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