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0 pointsmarssaxman10y ago0 comments

What core assets are those? Yahoo seems like Real Networks: a former big name that continues to exist (and get press) for no reason beyond inertia. It's not clear to me that it actually does anything worth paying for at this point.

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drgath10y ago

Just to list a few of the valuable properties off-hand: Homepage, Mail, Search, Tumblr, Flickr, Finance, News, Sports, Fantasy sports (including daily fantasy). Some of the bigger ones are billion+ dollar properties. Others are hundreds of millions.

> It's not clear to me that it actually does anything worth paying for at this point.

Few users of Google and Facebook actually "pay" for those services, they're primarily all advertising funded companies.

marssaxmanOP10y ago

In what sense are they billion dollar properties?

I didn't mean that users would pay for them; I meant that I don't see how one could use them to make money, or at least enough money that it would be worth bothering to acquire them.

kaizendad10y ago

Mail is the #1 e-mail provider.

News is massive.

Sports is massive and has one of the top Fantasy operations, a growing market.

Homepage is still the homepage for people who set homepages.

All are monetized through one of the most effective ad selling operations out there.

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