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Edit: I think it’s not worth anything positive for Yahoo to sell. I added the last two paragraphs.

I assume they sold Delicious and Tumblr because of outcries. I can’t recall if I am misremembering, but I believe Delicious was going to be shut down according to an early leaked slide show before being sold to the YouTube founders.

It’s probably not worth selling something for 7 figures. when your parent company is the hugely profitable Verizon, no less, if Yahoo was still an independent $2B company.

I assume the web app can’t be sold for too much when it has to get a new domain name and name.

Then either Yahoo has to untangle the code or only sell the database. The latter could easily become negative PR depending on what the new owner’s site is like. The former doesn’t seem worth it.

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Wasn't del.icio.us sold to Pinboard?

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Eventually as others say. The wiki for it goes over the different selling points. Even with Pinboard it was and still is first frozen in place. I think soon it’ll be working again in some capacity.

And yeah the final sale to Pinboard was for literal 5 figure peanuts. While I think it was 1000x more when YouTube founders bought it.

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Yes, and that was the 5th time it had been sold.

https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious...

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With a detour through the ex-youtube-folks' company (AVOS), and then someone else. Yahoo did not sell it for $30k.