Comments on: How Did Yahoo Lose its Way? http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/06/19/how-did-yahoo-lose-its-way/ Insight and Analysis from North of the Border Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:09:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Kevin Restivo http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/06/19/how-did-yahoo-lose-its-way/#comment-71904 Kevin Restivo Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:24:27 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/?p=3526#comment-71904 Well said. It's amazing to watch a company wither away in spite of itself - it still maintains a number of valuable assets which don't need to be enumerated. Perhaps the company's greatest blunder was its inability to foresee the importance of search to the world. This is also probably the reason why Yahoo passed on an opportunity to buy Google earlier this decade. Well said.
It’s amazing to watch a company wither away in spite of itself - it still maintains a number of valuable assets which don’t need to be enumerated.
Perhaps the company’s greatest blunder was its inability to foresee the importance of search to the world. This is also probably the reason why Yahoo passed on an opportunity to buy Google earlier this decade.

]]> By: srini kumar http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/06/19/how-did-yahoo-lose-its-way/#comment-71765 srini kumar Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:01:26 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/?p=3526#comment-71765 i had hoped that yang had something cooking in the apps space that he just fervently believed in and didn't want to sell it out cheap. the departure of all of these apps people, man, there's another theory shot right to hell! that said - doesn't yahoo, like, make MONEY ? it doesn't seem that the end can ever come to an entity that makes actual money. the current executive staff did not override Semel's ignorant stewardship, although props to Garlinghouse for at least seeing the writing on the wall. However, it doesn't seem as if they were powerful or motivated enough to do anything about it while they had a chance. So the departures could maybe be a good thing. i had hoped that yang had something cooking in the apps space that he just fervently believed in and didn’t want to sell it out cheap.

the departure of all of these apps people, man, there’s another theory shot right to hell!

that said - doesn’t yahoo, like, make MONEY ? it doesn’t seem that the end can ever come to an entity that makes actual money. the current executive staff did not override Semel’s ignorant stewardship, although props to Garlinghouse for at least seeing the writing on the wall. However, it doesn’t seem as if they were powerful or motivated enough to do anything about it while they had a chance. So the departures could maybe be a good thing.

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