So what exactly does Yahoo do these days?
Yahoo is a profitable company with atleast 5B $ in revenue. Search and Mail are extremely profitable businesses. When was the last time you changed your mail id? Search is atleast 2B $ plus in revenue. Mail is 1B $ plus in revenue. Yahoo Finance, Yahoo sports, yahoo news are all highly trafficked websites although I dont know the revenue numbers. I do wager that if yahoo is put on stock market, its valuation will be around $10B although private equity has spent only 4B$ on acquiring them. Who knows what went into the discussions.
Why did I leave? Because I figured my career growth is elsewhere.
One thing I learnt at yahoo is that large companies take a very long time to die . You can have a profitable career in them, even if YoY growth is slowing.
(I worked on Yahoo Search — and search.yahoo.com — from 2007 to 2010)
In 2006, when I moved from Yahoo Mail to Gmail.
I get this sentiment, but I don't know anyone in my age group (late 20s/early 30s) that use yahoo mail either. My dad did use yahoo mail, but i'm guessing it has about 20 years left.
19 years ago, the minute gmail offered a better alternative to Yahoo!
ZHoldings is now Line Yahoo.
The footer of yahoo.co.jp has changed from Yahoo! Japan / ZHoldings to Line Yahoo.
My point is just, from what I've heard the switch to Line Yahoo reflects a real integration of the businesses, not just a change of brand.