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So let me get this straight. Yahoo! is getting rid of the only successful asset it has left?

Until right now, Yahoo! had two things going for it: its asian operations (Alibaba, Yahoo! Japan, etc.), and the Hadoop project. Now, it only has one.

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If they are to keep the asian assets, they may as well become an investment bank because right now, asset management is the only thing that seems to be working for them. If they still wanna be a technology company they really have to get rid of the stuff that's getting in the way of them doing what they're really supposed to do, which is tech.

Yahoo! doesn't have Hadoop anymore. Key people moved on and formed an independent company Hortonworks.

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