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Two things come to mind that a potential acquirer might be interested in:

1. The sheer volume of traffic, available pretty cheaply. While their sites are largely in decline and the focus is still all over the map, I could see their sites carved up among parties interested in a unique views bump (however temporary) -- point news.yahoo.com to Huffington Post, sports.yahoo.com to ESPN, etc.

The brand and site content itself is probably of no real value at this point, with a few notable exceptions like Flickr and Tumblr (and other missing-e sites).

2. All of the user data waiting to be mined. Yahoo Mail has a ton of e-mails sitting around, maybe you'd like to do something with those? Yahoo has been mostly benevolent when it comes to their trove of information, but as an acquisition target this becomes an asset to be exploited. Anyone buying Yahoo isn't buying them to run it as an on-going concern for another 20 years.



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