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by LarrySDonald 4862 days ago
Yahoo has been in it's death throes for quite a while. I'm sure they'll survive in a sort of AOL sense, but they are quite desperate to stay relevant. News is likely their last outpost and even that is starting to slip very fast.

It's sad to see, what used to be a crack directory, social hub (besides AOL one of the first true social networks), email, map and IM providers is now barely an afterthought and throwing the next cool "stand back I got this" manager to the wolves. But I can understand the frustration. Google and Apple both would have been happy to snap it up at one point, but it's too late and there is zero value left in the company besides the really nice Yahoo! name, and there's no big name to sell it to beyond perhaps AT&T or someone else that may want the infrastructure for something.