Friday , 22 November 2024

Yahoo’s 20-Year Roller Coaster Ride Finally Ends – What Happened?

The saga surrounding one of the world’s most recognizable internet stocks has come to a close. Yahoo has finally sold its operating business to…Verizon – and the price was [only] $4.8 billion…What happened?

The comments above and below are excerpts from an article by Jeff Desjardins (VisualCapitalist.org) which has been edited ([ ]) and abridged (…) to provide a faster and easier read.

The executives running Yahoo have a rough track record in reading industry tea leaves. [As the infographic below illustrates] it’s not just about the deals they made, but it’s also the deals they failed to make. In the end, a lack of execution with acquisitions proved to be the company’s Achilles’ Heel.

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