Re:Yahoo Stabs Facebook In The Back
by atarian on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @04:24AM
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This is a sensationalist article that reeks of pre-meditated biases. Yes the Facebook open-graph protocol has helped bring more traffic to Yahoo, but that wasn't an exclusive alliance. In fact nowhere in the Facebook press release does Facebook "congratulate" Yahoo.
If you read the NYT article, Yahoo merely warned Facebook about potential patent violations. There is no back-stabbing, this is business as usual. I wish Techcrunch would quit with the drama already.
Re:Yahoo Stabs Facebook In The Back
by RichardPrice on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @01:37AM
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I am amazed that Yahoo is resorting to patent trolling tactics. Almost everyone in the Valley hates software patents, and only builds patent portfolios defensively, but they don't expect to have to defend themselves against each other. It seems very un-Silicon Valley of Yahoo to do this.
I think their brand will take a hit in the Valley. It's not the freshest and shiniest brand anyway, but still there is a long way down for it to go, and I think this will send it down some notches.
Re:Yahoo Stabs Facebook In The Back
by sriramk on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @02:19AM
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This is very sad. I worked at Yahoo until a few weeks ago; I have great respect for what Yahoo can build, the company and it's people.
This is such a sad turn of events. It's also very weird given how much Yahoo has been talking up the success of the partnership with Facebook around the open graph.
Re:Yahoo Stabs Facebook In The Back
by RexRollman on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @06:21AM
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Really? Yahoo ruins just about everything it touches, with the possible exception of Flickr, and then they actually had the nerve to refuse Microsoft purchase offer? Their company logo should be next to the word "mismanagement" in the dictionary.
Re:Yahoo Stabs Facebook In The Back
by hrktb on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @10:23AM
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> When a technology company starts suing on patents
Except when it's apple. Or microsoft. or anytime there is big profit to be done, or negociations breaks on contending points. it's just business as usual.
If true, one interesting point in the article is that yahoo has 2,661 pending patents in the pipe. Regardless of if these are "good" patents or not, it sounds like a non neglictable number for a company that doesn't get the spotlight so much these days.
Re:Yahoo Stabs Facebook In The Back
by shingen on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @01:50AM
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Yahoo's new management in action. They must be really desperate.
Yahoo refuses to innovate their way out of ten years of stagnation, despite the opportunities. So they're going for the fast profits. In reality, this kind of thing will destroy whatever relationships Yahoo has, isolate them, and make their situation worse.
Facebook was no threat to Yahoo, and they could have benefited eachother long term. Instead, Yahoo just got unfriended.
If you read the NYT article, Yahoo merely warned Facebook about potential patent violations. There is no back-stabbing, this is business as usual. I wish Techcrunch would quit with the drama already.
I think their brand will take a hit in the Valley. It's not the freshest and shiniest brand anyway, but still there is a long way down for it to go, and I think this will send it down some notches.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group
It's really sad to see Yahoo! becoming the SCO of social networking.
Except when it's apple. Or microsoft. or anytime there is big profit to be done, or negociations breaks on contending points. it's just business as usual.
If true, one interesting point in the article is that yahoo has 2,661 pending patents in the pipe. Regardless of if these are "good" patents or not, it sounds like a non neglictable number for a company that doesn't get the spotlight so much these days.
Yahoo refuses to innovate their way out of ten years of stagnation, despite the opportunities. So they're going for the fast profits. In reality, this kind of thing will destroy whatever relationships Yahoo has, isolate them, and make their situation worse.
Facebook was no threat to Yahoo, and they could have benefited eachother long term. Instead, Yahoo just got unfriended.