Verizon bought Yahoo in 2017. They sold off portions of it but couldn't find a buyer for Groups. As we all know Groups was quite buggy probably due to ad hoc spaghetti coding. They appeared after they initially couldn't find a buyer spiffied it up but that still didn't help.
I liked Earl Kaplan's alleged experience with visiting India where he learned enlightenment wasn't such a big deal. That's something I also learned on my visit there. The TMO seemed to just kept raising the carrot to get more money. On 10/20/20 8:14 PM, Doug Hamilton dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: > > Within a dysfunctional capitalism evidently this Verizon Corp purchase > of Yahoo! appears as something similar to corporate Reader’s Digest’s > buying Earl Kaplan’s “Reading is Fun” business for 267 million or so > $, letting bean-counters and outside managers come in and destroy what > was an ongoing business. Then, Earl buying the name back for a paltry > few million after a couple of years or so. A stunning devaluation. > (..that was a told as a journalism in the group archive of FFL.) > > > After Verizon corp bought Yahoo! last year, the whole service has > sequentially degraded terribly to this. > > >
