It's probably more along the lines of just getting the userbase and connecting it to some of Verizon's "media"-like undertakings like go90.
You are almost certainly right, but I don't see that succeeding.
It's probably more along the lines of just getting the userbase and connecting it to some of Verizon's "media"-like undertakings like go90.
Agreed, Yahoo is a dumpster fire, and there's really nothing that I can see that would be a good fit for Apple.
It was no secret that Yahoo was shopping itself around, so presumably, Apple doing its due diligence may have looked at what was being offered. I'm actually surprised by Verizon and what they hope to accomplish - I don't see this as a logical fit for what they do
I'm genuinely intrigued as to what yahoo services you're referring to - as far as I'm aware, I don't have any on my phone apart from stocks which is only there because I can't remove it
Services like Finance and Sports are where YHOO are second to none. If you look at the size of VZ, combining this deal with the takeover of AOL means that VZ is now #1 for unique visitors per month to their websites. AAPL's online presence has missed the last chance to be amongst the internet's top tier content providers.
Services like Finance and Sports are where YHOO are second to none. If you look at the size of VZ, combining this deal with the takeover of AOL means that VZ is now #1 for unique visitors per month to their websites. AAPL's online presence has missed the last chance to be amongst the internet's top tier content providers.
Thanks for the reply, although I think they're not as big outside the USA, particularly with sports news in the small corner of the world where I live (uk) which is why I wasn't aware of their importance: when I think of yahoo I just think of a failed search engine and lots of strange company acquisitions
I think you are confusing what Apple wants to be with what you want Apple to be
There's certainly a lot that would go against it all, but seems like Verizon is hoping that won't be the case: http://deadline.com/2016/07/verizon...a-player-yahoo-deal-lowell-mcadam-1201792740/You are almost certainly right, but I don't see that succeeding.
This was Yahoo's and maybe the world's worst investment of all time- $5.7B in 1999!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast.com what were they thinking!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Yahoo!
.....but it was April Fools day!
Another crazy dot-com bubble times...
MicroSoft should have bought them (for say $20B) - Steve Ballmer error.
Google must be over the moon.
SB tried to get them to sell to Microsoft for 45b. Yahoo said no.
yes 45B was too much, 20B but yahoo were blinded
My point was more that there was no real way for Microsoft to buy them for 20b when Ballmer was in charge. They didn't want to sell because they were stupid.