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mpouraryan
mpouraryan
12/16/2016 4:52:13 PM
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Re: Fishy things still...
@Yahoo has a rich IP, no question--but the question is how far Verizon is willing to go--at some stage, there needs to be some major decisions made.   Time will tell.   

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mpouraryan
mpouraryan
12/16/2016 4:51:25 PM
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Re: Yahoo!
Yahoo is just a tragedy that is kind of tough to be witness to--As for the Trump Tech Meeting, I would remind all that Jack Dorsey was not there--and this takeaway on the summit was also quite striking:

https://bothsidesofthetable.com/let-me-point-out-to-you-how-ridiculous-the-trump-tech-meeting-was-14c318986244#.pfmus2vvw

Beyond the summit itself, there is Yahoo.   Yahoo, at this stage, is another "me too"--and unfortunately it is stuck--although the stock price seems to "somehow" be steady although the vultures law firms are are playing prey on Yahoo.  The drama is yet to play itself out--no doubt. 

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mhhf1ve
mhhf1ve
12/16/2016 3:23:25 PM
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Re: Yahoo!
The fact that Yahoo didn't have a seat with president-elect Trump at the tech meeting, also indicates that Yahoo is just dead, but no one has officially written the obit just yet.

I think Verizon will still acquire Yahoo for a few billion, because Yahoo's ad tech is still worth something and Verizon simply can't just rebuild what Yahoo has from scratch. Yahoo has customer relationships in addition to its ad tech.

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mhhf1ve
mhhf1ve
12/16/2016 2:13:45 PM
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Re: Fishy things still...
> "What does Verizon truly benefit from gaining Yahoo?"

Verizon wants Yahoo's ad technology and the eyeball traffic to Yahoo.com. Verizon can leverage its network abilities to make Yahoo's advertising systems better and more attractive to marketing folks (and force Verizon's users to see more ads along the way). 

There's a reason why Google and Facebook are looking into building telco-like abilities.. And telcos are approaching the same strategy from the other direction, having the telco infrastructure and adding ad tech (instead of having ad tech and adding telco).

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srufolo1
srufolo1
12/16/2016 12:55:23 PM
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Re: Yahoo!
@Ariella Either the company is incredibly naive, or had the worst security measure in place ever. Or it could be that it just doesn't care! And I would hate to think that a company of that size and standing does not care about security!

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Ariella
Ariella
12/16/2016 10:32:46 AM
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Re: Yahoo!
@srufolo1 I've seen a lot of my connections say exactly the same thing. It's not even like Yahoo has an excuse of saying they had no way of knowing. It's not the first or even just second time it's been found to be breached.

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elizabethv
elizabethv
12/16/2016 2:21:19 AM
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Re: Fishy things still...
@mhhf1ve - I completely agree, doing nothing not only shows their intentions moving forward, but also a complete lack of concern for their users. I know it isn't quite the same, but other corporations after finding themselves hacked have also been offering a year of free credit monitoriing. I think at some point last year I had 3 different agencies monitoring my credit because of various hacks. 

 

The weird thing is that I read in a different article, on a different site, that Verizon wasn't considering changing the merger just because of these hacks. Though I believe this far more than the mainstream media article I'd read. It also makes a lot more sense, Verizon is big and they can take a hit a lot better than Yahoo can, but why put yourself in that position if you don't have to? What does Verizon truly benefit from gaining Yahoo? 

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clrmoney
clrmoney
12/16/2016 12:55:19 AM
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Verizon and yahoo deal on hold
I understand if Verizon wants to postpone their deal with Yahoo because of Email hacking. They could probably do the same to Verizon if they get involved now.So this needs to be taken care of in order to do business with them.

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srufolo1
srufolo1
12/15/2016 11:41:01 PM
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Yahoo!
More than 3 years later, Yahoo! is just uncovering a hack of this proportion? Billions of users' data was hacked, including 150,000 government employees. It seems that Yahoo! could care less that their customers' data has been sold, and it's scary to think what is being done with it and by whom. Verizon should try to distance itself from this deal or get Yahoo! to lower the price. Anyone with a Yahoo! account should not just merely change their password, but cancel it altogether.

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afwriter
afwriter
12/15/2016 11:07:53 PM
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Re: Yahoo!
At this point Yahoo should be willing to take any deal, their reputation is shot.  I wonder what Verizon's take over would mean for Yahoo security. 

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