• fpslem@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Like, two owners ago. Wordpress took Tumblr off Verizon’s hands for $3 million USD, ~six years after Yahoo! bought it for $1.1 billion.

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      2 months ago

      Where the fuck does yahoo even get money from to do this kind of shit at this point?

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          2 months ago

          The people can, but companies still need some kind of income to exist. The owners/ceos will just golden parachute away from the corpse

          In order to tangibly pay employees/rent/servers a company needs either profits, subsidies, or a ponzi scheme inflated stocks.

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        2 months ago

        yahoo

        Nowadays, I don’t know that they could, but more than a decade ago they still had enough mail and search users to be somewhat relevant, and Marissa Meyer had just taken over after she left Google. There was a real thought that Yahoo! could so something new. It obviously didn’t pan out, but for a hot minute, people really talked about Yahoo!