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Verizon spent about $9 billion buying AOL and Yahoo over two years starting in 2015, hoping to jump-start a digital media business that would compete with Google and Facebook. It didn’t work — those brands were already fading even then — as Google and Facebook and, increasingly, Amazon dominate the U.S. digital ad market. The year after buying Yahoo, Verizon wrote down the value of the combined operation, called “Oath,” by roughly the value of the $4.5 billion it had spent on Yahoo. Source link

When Baio was at the company, Yahoo Answers was one of the biggest things it had going. “The volume of activity was extraordinary,” he told me. “This doesn’t mean it was good quality; a lot of it was always questionable.” But deleting it still means scrapping a huge archive of the ways that people look for and try to provide knowledge. Baio had already watched a website that he’d made and sold to Yahoo, called Upcoming, get marked for death with less than two weeks’ warning in… Source link

A new proposal by Republican lawmakers to overhaul a critical law that protects online platforms already looks dead in the water, according to one legal expert, though another prominent legal scholar believes it could fuel bipartisan reform for tech regulation. The proposal, laid out by Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday, is meant to serve as a foundation to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a law that provides liability protection… Source link

Russian internet giant Yandex says it will start delivering groceries across Paris and London by the end of the year, after the service gained massive popularity in Russia during lockdowns imposed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The grocery delivery in the French and British capitals will be run by Yango, an international arm of Yandex Go, which is in cha   rge of the company’s taxi aggregator and food tech business. Last year, the subsidiary launched the grocery service in… Source link

Yahoo! Answers is shutting down in May. From sex education to homework help, users of the forum remember how it shaped early Internet culture. Source link

The Q&A board Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4. When I heard the news, my first sympathetic thought was for the podcast My Brother, My Brother and Me; I wasn’t the only person to think of it. This 11-year-old show hosted by brothers Justin, Travis, and Griffin McElroy took the weirdest stuff Yahoo Answers had to offer and riffed on it; the resulting show, which interspersed “Yahoos” (as they called them) with listener questions, has been in the top comedy podcasts… Source link

T-Mobile (TMUS) made headlines on Wednesday announcing it’s giving away 5G phones in exchange for any mobile phone, but it’s the company’s new 5G home internet service that really deserves attention. Called T-Mobile Home Internet, available in parts of 49 states, the service takes direct aim at the Comcasts (CMCSA), Coxes, and Charters (CHTR) of the world, promising in-home network speeds averaging 100 megabits per second with unlimited data and no caps. “There’s 30 million homes that… Source link

After more than 15 years, Yahoo is closing down its Yahoo Answers questions and response platform, marking the end of an internet era. Yahoo Answers, a staple of the web for so long, is shutting down, with Yahoo planning to focus on other products in its ecosystem. For more than a decade-and-a-half, Answers has enjoyed some of the spotlight in internet culture. However, in recent years, the platform dropped from the public consciousness like many before it… Source link

“Who do you blame for Yahoo Answers getting shut down?” reads one of the final queries ever submitted to the venerable advice service. As of press time, it has garnered more than 250 responses, all from those who’ve regularly doled out their imperfect observations to countless eighth-graders, chronic hypochondriacs, political firebrands, and curious stoners throughout the 15-year life span of the site. The premise of Yahoo Answers was simple: ask any question you want and receive… Source link

Tricor Group (Tricor), Asia’s leading business expansion specialist providing integrated business, corporate, investor, human resources and payroll, corporate trust and debt services and strategic business advisory, operating in 21 countries and jurisdictions with over 2,700 associates globally. In October 2020, we hired a Chief Digital Officer to accelerate efforts to advance our external customer facing platform and technology. In 2021, Tricor Group is continuing to make further investments… Source link