Yahoo Wants to Buy Chrome

(theverge.com)

25 points | by pier25 a day ago ago

14 comments

  • laborcontract 21 hours ago

    Yahoo throwing its name into the conversation throws me right back to the bad old days of web browsers, when Yahoo’s hideous toolbar was a staple of the ‘helping your grandparents with their computer and wondering what the hell all these things are doing on the screen’ era.

    It’s also making me wonder if we know what we’re really getting into with the chrome divestiture. A Yahoo chrome would make the web a worse place.

    • Doxin 13 hours ago

      Still better than OpenAI buying it though.

  • KeplerBoy a day ago

    Yahoo? The finance app?

    What are they up to these days, how are they still paying thousands of employees?

    • jimt1234 7 hours ago
    • TowerTall 14 hours ago

      The majority of my (small) group of japanese friends are using yahoo as search enigne

      • KeplerBoy 6 hours ago

        Interesting, I guess yahoo is especially irrelevant here in continental europe and less so in other markets.

    • mvid 11 hours ago

      I thought it was the fantasy football app

    • Larrikin a day ago

      They have a finance app? It's heavily used in my circle for fantasy sports.

    • mattl a day ago

      They own AOL too.

      • KeplerBoy a day ago

        And yahoo itself is owned by some asset management corporation. I guess that asset management corporation is not in the business of losing money, so somehow yahoo must still have some good income sources.

        • pier25 a day ago

          Last time I checked they were making billions per year in revenue

        • flexagoon a day ago

          > I guess that asset management corporation is not in the business of losing money

          Yeah, the "some asset management corporation" is Verizon Media.

          • amhoab a day ago

            It's actually Apollo Global Management. Verizon only retained 10% of the company after they sold it.

  • decremental a day ago

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