Alt-Tab-A is the new name to be for Yahoo

[SKORPI0]

I still cant believe Yahoo bought Broadcast.com from Mark Cuban for $5,004,000,000 when the damn company only had a few million in revenue,.

Wait. 1999? Are you fucking serious?

Yes that was another crazy Yahoo acquisition 1999. Valuation at $5.7 billion . 😵
http://www.gurufocus.com/news/138012/mark-cuban-and-broadcastcom-the-multibillion-dollar-coup

When Broadcast.com was taken public it had fewer than $7 million in revenues, $28 million in equity, and an accumulated deficit of of nearly $10 million dollars in its brief history. In reality, the company had little or no chance of achieving profitability in the foreseeable future.

 

[momeNt]

Here's an interesting take from a Quora answerer

https://www.quora.com/Did-Mark-Cuba...illion-because-it-closed-it-down-a-year-later

Yes, Mark Cuban could never have imagined his company being worth some tiny fraction of what it sold for. Here are the dynamics that came together at that time:

Back at that time (pre-Google), Yahoo was the most visited site on the internet. It was worth around $40 billion. The #2 most visited site on the internet was Lycos which was worth about $4 billion — so there was a 10x premium for being #1.

One month before Yahoo bought Broadcast . com, Lycos actually overtook Yahoo and became the #1 most visited site on the internet.

Yahoo saw this coming since Lycos was growing more quickly that Yahoo on a monthly basis. But when Lycos actually surpassed Yahoo, it put their valuation at a huge risk. Arguably if they stayed #2 then Lycos should have the 10x premium over Yahoo. This was the “dot com” era, baby.

Yahoo solved this the next month by buying Broadcast .com for $5.7 billion or approximately $10,000 (TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS) per “active monthly user.” There is hardly any justification that some person who watches a video stream on a site at least once per month would be worth even $10… Think about you watching a video on a website. An advertiser may pay 2 cents or maybe 20 cents to get a message to you… That’s about it. To say you’re worth $10 as a “user” on a free site is a stretch. To say YOU are worth $10,000 as a user on a free site defies all logic. Mind blown.

But the “eyeballs” put Yahoo back into the #1 spot and protected them from the prospect of losing $36 billion in market cap. So, Mark Cuban can thank Lycos for overtaking Yahoo, which meant that Yahoo was DESPERATE to get additional, eyeballs and he happened to have a basic company that could give Yahoo a monthly audience that was incremental. Nothing more. Yahoo closed it down soon afterwards and merged the “eyeballs” into Yahoo. That kept Yahoo at the top of the internet — until this thing called Google came along — but that’s a different story for a different time.

 

[Miramonti]

Yahoo is still my primary email resource. *sigh*

 

[lupi]

Why would you shift all your emails to one of the least secure and worst email providers?

Because my only other email was with my isp.

 

[BudAshes]

Anyone try protonmail.com? Seems interesting.

 

[pontifex]

Altaba sounds like some kind of medication.

Do you suffer from minor headaches? Try Altaba. 9 out of 10 doctors recommend Altaba for minor headache relief.

*side effect include: dizziness, nausea, diarrhea, major headaches, internal bleeding, erectile dysfunction, anal fissures, anal bleeding, blindness, baldness, dry mouth, diabetes, cancer, and minor death.

 

[Imp]

I've said it before... Yahoo is the only email of mine that's ever been hacked and used to send spam out to my contacts.

 

[lxskllr]

Anyone try protonmail.com? Seems interesting.

It's on my short list of mail providers, but I have enough accounts, and don't need another one atm. I wouldn't mind trying them though.

 

[GeekDrew]

For those of you considering changing mail providers, I very strongly recommend FastMail. It's not free, but it's fantastic.

 

[Drako]

Really lame combination of Altavista and Alibaba. Should have called it Altababa or Altavaba. 😀

 

[FeuerFrei]

Altaba - In Spanish it means "goes up"

Also in Spanish altavista means "high view"

 

[Drako]

Altaba - In Spanish it means "goes up"

LOL, no it doesn't.

 

[Charmonium]

LOL, no it doesn't.

And 'puta' in Spanish means faithful wife.

 

[BudAshes]

Altaba sounds like some kind of medication.

Do you suffer from minor headaches? Try Altaba. 9 out of 10 doctors recommend Altaba for minor headache relief.

*side effect include: dizziness, nausea, diarrhea, major headaches, internal bleeding, erectile dysfunction, anal fissures, anal bleeding, blindness, baldness, dry mouth, diabetes, cancer, and minor death.

To be fair to Altaba, death is the cure to all life aches and pains.

 

[Rubycon]

Beats working at one infinite loop. 😉

 

[Imp]

And 'puta' in Spanish means faithful wife.

Then you truly are an hijo de puta...

 

[Ichinisan]

Should have changed their name to ctrl+w.

I think you mean Alt-F4

Or Ctrl+F4.

 

[Ichinisan]

I am just curious to know if my @yahoo.com email will be dead or if everything, archives, contacts, etc will be moved the new system (if they go that way -- same for Yahoo Finance where I track my stocks) .. It would be a real pain to notify all the email newsletters of a change of email. Same for all the personal contacts.

I wouldn't even be slightly concerned about that. Modern data-mining Internet companies see active users as revenue. They wouldn't trash those accounts and email addresses.

 

[Ichinisan]

Altaba sounds like some kind of medication.

Do you suffer from minor headaches? Try Altaba. 9 out of 10 doctors recommend Altaba for minor headache relief.

*side effect include: dizziness, nausea, diarrhea, major headaches, internal bleeding, erectile dysfunction, anal fissures, anal bleeding, blindness, baldness, dry mouth, diabetes, cancer, and minor death.

Sounds like a key combination / sequence to me.

 

[Ichinisan]

It's on my short list of mail providers, but I have enough accounts, and don't need another one atm. I wouldn't mind trying them though.

What's going on with Lavabit?

https://lavabit.com/

"PRIVATE. SECURE. EMAIL.
ARRIVING SOON."

8 days, 17 hours, 38 minutes

Is it re-launching after NSA basically shut them down for being too secure?

 

[lxskllr]

What's going on with Lavabit?

https://lavabit.com/

"PRIVATE. SECURE. EMAIL.
ARRIVING SOON."

8 days, 17 hours, 38 minutes

Is it re-launching after NSA basically shut them down for being too secure?

Yea, it looks like they're relaunching, but I don't know the details. I don't really trust hosting provided by English speaking countries, but it probably doesn't matter. Regardless of how good *your* email is, the people you're writing to have gmail, yahoo, whatever...

I'd at least stay away from companies that use spying as their only way of making money. That way, the bulk of your mail at rest won't be used to profile you. That means paying for service in some form or another, or a business model that relies on some proportion of users paying(greater storage, advanced features...). If rock solid security/privacy is required, email is probably best avoided.

I use openmailbox as my primary mail, and I'm happy enough with it. It's a free service that relies on donations. I buy storage I don't really need to give support.