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by hc91 2434 days ago
Is there any value left in Yahoo!'s services at this point? This is a genuine question.
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Yahoo missed the boat in terms of their real asset, which was identity.

Microsoft, Google and Facebook ran with it. The rest of Yahoo is just an irrelevant husk.

They also had a friend network in Yahoo! Messenger, but no one was able to turn that into a true social network.