What went wrong with Yahoo? It was once worth almost $125 billion, but today sold to Verizon for $5 billion.
There is no one single reason that Yahoo "went wrong", which I assume means that they aren't seen as one of the top couple of internet companies like they once were. There are product reasons, strategic reasons, and cultural reasons. Some top of mind examples though:Focusing so much for years on Panama (Google Adwords competitor) and search in general, when they ended up losing to Google and eventually outsourcing this to Microsoft.Becoming too unfocused. Yahoo tried to do everything and triggered the famous Peanut Butter Manifesto from Brad Garlinghouse that summarized this problem well.The shift from a desktop world where everyone used home pages to a mobile and social world. Yahoo failed to build their own successful mobile and social products or to acquire any. Yahoo got too bloated, and nobody would ever make the cuts needed to both headcount and its products/properties.Buying Flickr, then letting it languish. Buying Flickr for $35 million was a bargain when you see how huge social photos are today. They could have turned Flickr into the next Facebook or Instagram and instead didn't invest properly in it.Failing to acquire Google and then Facebook. Yahoo had opportunities to buy both of these companies when it was clear they were going to be big successes and instead wouldn't pay what was needed. For example, they had a deal to buy Facebook for $1.1 billion pretty much accepted, then Yahoo's earnings came out and the value of the deal dropped to 800M due to stock compensation and Zuckerberg balked when Yahoo wouldn't change the deal to put the price back up. Think about the value of Facebook today and that Yahoo didn't acquire them over a $300M difference.Leadership changes. Looking at companies like Google and Facebook you'll see that the same leadership has essentially been in place the whole time. Yahoo has had a shifting cast of CEOs and executive teams that has never provided a longer term vision and execution path to take shape.Acceptance of lower quality employees. By the time I worked at Yahoo from 2007-2010, there were still a ton of great A-quality people there, but there were also a lot of B or C-quality people who were not outstanding at their work. This starts to eat away at the company and make the A-players go work elsewhere.There are more reasons, but these provide a good summary...
Where did you write before you found Quora?
Before finding Quora, for three years, I was the most prolific contributor to the Hindi/English Dictionary site http://shabdkosh.comI have posted 15361 times and helped totally anonymous users with translations between Hindi and English.My user handle there was gvshwnthIt’s just my name G Vishwanath, with all vowels removed.While I enjoyed helping out, I finally opted out when I found Quora.I last visited that site a year ago.I found that everyone’s anonymity at that site was not encouraging me to stay. I had publicly declared my identity and requested those who sought my help to at least tell me their names, ages, location and occupation and be a little informal with me, but even this basic information was not forthcoming.After I became one of the top contributors and earned a five star badge and was also made a moderator some bad experiences with trolls on that forum, coupled with the accidental discovery of Quora, made me gradually withdraw from that forum and become active here on Quora.I still like that site very much and use the online dictionary available at that site. But I have quit contributing to the discussions and helping others with translations. I do that here on Quora as and when I am asked. Some of the old members there have moved here to Quora along with me and they still ask me for help via private messages. I still help those old friends provided they have revealed their real names and location to me.I also quit for another reason. That forum concentrated only on languages. I wanted a more general forum for discussing any subject under the sun.All the members there were Indians. Here I interact with people all over the world and I know their real names and also their identities.Before Shabdkosh I was active in some discussion forums, yahoo groups, and was a frequent visitor and commenter on the blogs of some successful and well known bloggers, most notable of them were Gyan Dutt Pandey in Hindi and The Life and Times of an Indian Homemaker in English. I used to be well known as vishwanaathjee at the former and GV in the latter.After discovering Quora, I have withdrawn from all other forums. I have found my niche here and it will take something really extraordinary to make me quit from here and go elsewhere.—
Online typewriter generator? (text animation)?
Online text generator that gives text a typing effect? Like you know how in video games where the text types out? I know I can take a sentence and individually do each letter in animation shop that would take forever! Is there an online generator type thing that takes a sentence and then animates it as if it is being typed out? Make sense? Kind of like this: http://wigflip.com/screedbot/ But with a better looking font. xD ~
Where can I get WhatsApp group links?
On Internet there are many whatsappgroup sharing blogs but all of them do have same groups links. Because they copy each others groups and post the content.Here we are sharing a blog Join Latest WhatsApp Group Links 2019 - Latest WhatsApp Group Links where you can find latest and updated groups links.Advantages-100% Genuine GroupsNo Repeated GroupsYou can also ask them to update your groups on their whatsapp pages. This is the main benefit.Users can find their group easily.
What does the latin saying "Post Proelia Praemia" translate into in English?
What does the anciant latin saying "Post Proelia Praemia" translate into in english and also does Anciant Latin have its own style off font? thanks in advance everyone :)
Arabic Language: How to write Wallahu'alam bissawab?
والله أعلمُ بالـصـواب if what it means ''and Allah knows the right"
If I am making a website, is it legal to copy news from other sites and post them to my own, whether they are cited or not?
While news aggregators exist, there are many legal implications surrounding the practice. Google was recently embroiled in a legal battle with AFP for their aggregation of AFP content for Google News, while other content aggregators are facing similar circumstances.At the heart of the matter is the fact that a content creator (i.e. magazines, newspapers, bloggers, etc) own the copyright to the content they create. When an aggregator comes along and scrapes the content, it is in essence a breach of copyright. In other cases, content is licensed for use on other sites (like a newspaper that pays a licensing fee to use AFP content, etc). So if an aggregator pulls licensed content without paying for it, there are problems that will arise, etc. There are also other issues at play, like Search Engine Optimisation. A website that has a good piece of content will want to get the benefit of the SEO for that piece. If an aggregator copies it in its entirety, then there is always a chance that the aggregated piece will get better SEO than the original piece. So content creators are guarding their good content, and will get upset if others are stealing it. That said, if an aggregator copies only the abstract (or excerpt/lede/dek, etc), and then provides a link that directs readers to the original story, then it is usually ok. This is, in essence, how RSS Feeds work, and many websites are happy for a site to display the RSS feed.Long story short - there aren't any firm laws in place at the moment (none that I know of, anyway), but it's not going to be smooth sailing, either.There is a good whitepaper on the topic:http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pape...Hope this helps