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by velodrome 3005 days ago
Yahoo could not decide whether it was a technology company or media company...
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StevePerkins 3005 days ago
The same could be said for most current tech titans. Some are just at different points along their lifecycle than others.
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cmrdporcupine 3005 days ago
Well, really, Google deliberately kept out of content provision for years in a way that Yahoo didn't. Google was only interested in being the gateway or the platform, not the publisher. That seems to have worked for them.
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azinman2 3005 days ago
I could say the same about Facebook today.
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