Comments on: Mark Cuban Weighs In on Yahoo (aka, a Jerry Yang Nightmare)

By: erdem ela

erdem ela — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:42:17 +0000

It was delightful to see Bill and Steve sharing a stage and reminiscing about their stuff, but I was surprised that Bill (gadgets) and Steve (widgets) didn’t settle the debate about the original inventor of the widget. One can never have too many widgets. Somebody codes something you never even dreamed of wanting - suddenly everybody lig tv izle bedava ligtv izle garibim deyimler şiir türleri çet chat sohbet needs a whole bunch of widgets because they don’t impinge too much on the screen/template real estate.

By: Robert Freeman

Robert Freeman — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:45:18 +0000

yahoo has not been relevant for years. when is the last time anyone went there for anything except to play games? its the biggest fraud on the net.

By: Mac Beach

Mac Beach — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:05:56 +0000

Yahoo was built, during its mid-life (in Internet years) on acquiring technologies and monetizing them.

Problem is that starting with overpriced acquisition of Broadcast.com and the failure to acquire the underpriced (hindsight etc.) Google, combined with numerous smaller deals where useful (to some) products were bought, then abandoned. Finally, simple infrastructure products such as e-mail were allowed to stagnate, not for months, but for years after better alternatives came along (both Google and Microsoft).

The old saying about shooting yourself in the foot would come in handy here, except you’d have to substitute a machine gun.

Problem is that technology long ago became unimportant to those running the company (and some are no doubt blissfully ignorant of it). It’s amazing how soon you lose your job skills once you no longer have to work for a living.

By: bill brout

bill brout — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:34:56 +0000

Mark Cuban seems to have been savvy enough to do at least one thing right in his life(creating and selling his money losing Broadcast.com and hedging the YHOO stock sales).That said, he’s been given a platform to opine on just about anything. I’m not aware of ANY publicly available information that would indicate he’s made any meaningful returns in the aggregate on capital employed. I’d love to hear about his numbers,annualized and audited.