alt.hn

4/24/2025 at 9:46:01 PM

Yahoo Wants to Buy Chrome

 https://www.theverge.com/policy/655975/yahoo-search-web-browser-prototype-google-trial-antitrust-chrome

by pier25

4/25/2025 at 3:13:57 AM

Yahoo throwing its name into the conversation throws me right back to the bad old days of web browsers, when Yahoo’s hideous toolbar was a staple of the ‘helping your grandparents with their computer and wondering what the hell all these things are doing on the screen’ era.

It’s also making me wonder if we know what we’re really getting into with the chrome divestiture. A Yahoo chrome would make the web a worse place.

by laborcontract

4/25/2025 at 11:04:02 AM

Still better than OpenAI buying it though.

by Doxin

4/24/2025 at 9:53:03 PM

Yahoo? The finance app?

What are they up to these days, how are they still paying thousands of employees?

by KeplerBoy

4/25/2025 at 9:42:09 AM

The majority of my (small) group of japanese friends are using yahoo as search enigne

by TowerTall

4/25/2025 at 5:17:32 PM

Interesting, I guess yahoo is especially irrelevant here in continental europe and less so in other markets.

by KeplerBoy

4/24/2025 at 11:08:49 PM

They have a finance app? It's heavily used in my circle for fantasy sports.

by Larrikin

4/25/2025 at 12:18:27 PM

I thought it was the fantasy football app

by mvid

4/24/2025 at 10:14:49 PM

They own AOL too.

by mattl

4/24/2025 at 10:28:22 PM

And yahoo itself is owned by some asset management corporation. I guess that asset management corporation is not in the business of losing money, so somehow yahoo must still have some good income sources.

by KeplerBoy

4/24/2025 at 10:32:44 PM

Last time I checked they were making billions per year in revenue

by pier25

4/24/2025 at 11:20:07 PM

> I guess that asset management corporation is not in the business of losing money

Yeah, the "some asset management corporation" is Verizon Media.

by flexagoon

4/24/2025 at 11:38:33 PM

It's actually Apollo Global Management. Verizon only retained 10% of the company after they sold it.

by amhoab

4/24/2025 at 11:54:42 PM

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by decremental