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...
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Salam! Man Ninet hastam, khoobam, kheili mamnoon. Man kami farsi baladam.. I'm 17 and I've just started learning Persian. I'm Iranian Armenian though. I loveeeeee the language! It's soooo beautiful.. I wish I learned it earlier, being that make parents speak fluently, but I guess I didn't appreciate it as much until now. So far, I've learned some verbs, terms of endearment, and greetings. It's a little difficult, but once you get the hang of it, you can put sentences together on your own. Congujating verbs isn't that hard once you learn pronouns. I started learning towards the beginning of August. If I had more time, I would study it more, but for now learning slowly does it for me :) and to answer your last question, I loveeeeeee the language, love Persian music and that's why I'm learning. If you have any questions, I can try to help you as I'm learning. Good luck!
What are the differences between YHWH (of the Bible) and Allah (of the Quran)?
There are websites, pamphlets, and so forth which treat this question in detail. The first thing that comes to my mind is that one God is said to be unable to tell any untruths..and this is the One we are to imitate in our own actions. The other is known to encourage the use of lies to further the advance of the religion associated with him. I am not a major intellect, nor a logic professor, but it seems to me that they cannot be the same entity...one who says it is fine to tell untruths...and the other who has integrity...His word means what He says and says what He means. Abrogation, is another fancy word for "lies". You may want to find out what this means in terms of interpreting the Koran. Basically, the later verses override the earlier in importance. If peace with the people of the book...jews, christians...is called for in the earlier revelations...yet violent verses come later...guess which are the dominant verses to be followed? The peaceful ones are in the book...but the ones in which necks are struck at...and terror is to be shed abroad in the hearts of unbelievers...and trees will call out that a jew is hiding behind me, come and kill him; these are the ones that rule the day. Sad, but true. Let God be true, and every man a liar.
What made Gmail unique when it was first launched? What are the things that distinguished it from other competitors?
A couple of reasons that made Gmail insanely great at launch were based on how radically different, new or ahead (better) they were when compared to any existing player:Data storage - Hotmail, Yahoo and all other major email providers were still circling the 2-5 MB data storage limit range. Enter Gmail with their 1 GB storage limit - which was a quantum jump over the competition. They took it a step further, where you could save all your mail (like the real world) and not choose what letters you would like to keep and not keep - and when you needed it you could just "search" for it - which was a big deal back then.Significantly faster response - When the team at Google was working on Gmail, like Google's search engine, speed was again key. The interface was light, and had no image/flash based ads keep it quick and easy to load. Simple theory - it was clean; it was simple; it worked!Conversation View - This is probably one of the core gmail experiences that was directly visible to the end-user. Conversation-view let users explore emails that were spread over any time period and still maintain the train of thought connected to a thread.Spam Filtering - Gmail had a significantly better Spam Filter. Hotmail and Yahoo Mail (both used by me at the time) always had relevant mail in the Spam Folder and vice-versa.Invites - This was the one final social boost they got during the launch. Gmail was rolled out to new users in phases for obvious product testing and scalability related reasons. However, in the user world, getting a gmail account was cool. Unlike social networks, your friends didn't need to be on it for them to know you were on it. You could show off your gmail id, and how you have access to all these cool services - "Yeah... Just write down my id... its xyz@gmail.com" :P. Initially, Gmail was invite only. And then you could invite only 5 of your friends - which was later increased to 50 before it was finally removed. This led to a great sense of exclusivity. (They tried to replicate a similar model during the launch of Google Wave and Google+, but didn't quite work out for them.)
What will Allah do with you when you die?
#1: What do you know with absolute certainty that Allah will do with you when you die? I absolutely know that when I die, I will be shrowded and put in the ground. It will be at this time that I will get a good idea of where I will be in the hereafter. When we die we wait for the day of judgement. I know that my good deeds will protect me from the punishment of the grave. That I will be attacked from all directions and that only my deeds will protect me. I know that on the day of judgement my two books will be taken out and all of god deeds and all of my bad deeds will be presented before Allah and the rest of Humanity. I know that with the mercy of Allah I will go to Paradise. And I pray that I don't even spend one second in hellfire. This is absolute knowledge, no one knows whethere they will go to Paradise or hellfire. #2: What did his prophet Muhammad "do" for you to guarantee a desirable outcome for #1? The Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) left his legacy, stories of the way he lived. The lives he touched and struggle he endured, I know that if I follow his example I will have a better chance of the good book outwaying the bad book on the day of judgement, and that is what I am counting on. You don't have to vote for me because surely my reward is with Allah. I hope sincerely you get the answers you are seeking. Peace
Was Nostradamus ever wrong on his predictions?
Can't really answer that since everything he predicted was vague and ambiguous so we can't positively even know what he did predict...that's the nature of the beast with prophecy...hehe...why don't they just say what they mean!
When was the battle of Hastings?
14th October 1066 The Battle of Hastings took place on Saturday, October 14, 1066. Chronicles say it began aprox at 9 am. It ended the same day, around dusk when the English fled to the north in the near woods.