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Yahoo, Inc is No More

posted by martyb on Wednesday June 14 2017, @03:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the bring-out-your-dead-parrot-jokes dept.

Thexalon writes:

Yahoo Inc, long-standing "other search engine", will be acquired by Verizon for $4.5 billion.

Reports can be found on CNN, CNBC, and Fortune among many other sources.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer will be walking away with $23 million.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Wednesday June 14 2017, @04:48AM (3 children)

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Wednesday June 14 2017, @04:48AM (#525264) Journal

    Verizon going to hold Yahoo email addresses hostage for money, maybe? Maybe kill off that service altogether and nuke everyone's emails, first handing copies over to the FBI?

    And their Instant Messenger, that going to be screwed with too? Sort of like what Microsoft did to Skype?

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday June 14 2017, @05:26AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday June 14 2017, @05:26AM (#525279) Journal

    "email finder" next? ;)

  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday June 14 2017, @01:34PM

    by VLM (445) on Wednesday June 14 2017, @01:34PM (#525410)

    I suspect it'll be the groups, in addition. I was/am on some yahoo groups for small hobby things (ham radio projects, stuff like that) and those people panic'd hard around merger time and considered their options WRT moving to google groups or groups.io or whatever. Some moved, some didn't.

    Mergers are expensive, usually don't improve anything for the end users, generally a net loss for the end users who have to finance it all.

  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday June 14 2017, @02:35PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday June 14 2017, @02:35PM (#525438) Journal

    I really don't care what Verizon does with my many hundreds of Y! email accounts.

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