Folks, please keep in mind that everyone doesn’t live in America. Yahoo may seem like old news for many of us Americans, but across the world, for many millions of folks, Yahoo is still a significant and well-known brand/website.<p><i>E.g.</i>, I’m originally from Haiti. A really huge percentage of Haitians still use Yahoo for their email (specifically via yahoo.fr) and they even get a lot of their global news via Yahoo. I’ve seen the same thing apply in various African countries.
Is anybody tracking the <i>growth</i> of the staffs of these companies?<p>When I hear “NetCo lays off 10K” I wonder, does that mean they will have fewer employees than a year ago? Or is this just a blip on an overall trend of hiring?<p>This graph[0] makes it look like Microsoft, for example, is laying off far fewer people than they recently hired.<p>I would intuitively expect Yahoo to be the exception, but it would be great to see something like “…representing N% of its yearly hiring average since 2020” in these headlines.<p>[0]: <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/273475/number-of-employees-at-the-microsoft-corporation-since-2005/" rel="nofollow">https://www.statista.com/statistics/273475/number-of-employe...</a>
So many commenters talk about the fact that they never visit Yahoo.com, without realizing that the link shared by OP is from techcrunch.com, a Yahoo.com property. Yahoo is a lot more than services hosted on yahoo.com
I feel like the original “curated links” model of Yahoo search (which was supplanted by Google twenty years ago) is actually prime for a comeback. Has anyone at Yahoo commented on this?
It seems that revenue-wise, Yahoo is growing from ~$5bn circa 2016 (Mayer times) to ~$8bn now. That is impressive.<p>It is also a bit sad to see the Yahoo buildings, which Google bought in 2019, just sitting empty and unutilized.
I hope their business will continue. I have been using my daily Yahoo! Mail account since 1997, and unlike my Gmail account which keeps complaining that I have almost used up the 15GB storage limit, my Yahoo! Mail account keeps quiet and works as usual thanks to its 1TB storage limit!
I'm really curious how this will affect Yahoo. I know it's not used nearly as much these days in America, but in Japan it's still fairly ubiquitous for Yahoo Auctions.
They'll be fine. Their business model can handle this. It's opportunistic to timing, less downside PR because all IT sector worldwide is shedding, because "reasons" and they can avoid opprobrium by being in the same fleet.
The business and finance class is trying to wrestle back control of the spiraling wages of tech workers that threaten the existing power structure. Will be fascinating to watch this play out over the next 10 years.
I love Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Autos.
I use Yahoo email.
I hate Yahoo's news page, which I find too biased politically.<p>I wish them luck. Or maybe I wish for a division of the pie, so I could more easily get at the pieces that I like. Either way, I hope Yahoo stays around.