Ex-yahoo here (Quit in 2022, at the height of salary boom :)
Yahoo is a profitable company with atleast 5B $ in revenue. Search and Mail are extremely profitable businesses. When was the last time you changed your mail id? Search is atleast 2B $ plus in revenue. Mail is 1B $ plus in revenue. Yahoo Finance, Yahoo sports, yahoo news are all highly trafficked websites although I dont know the revenue numbers. I do wager that if yahoo is put on stock market, its valuation will be around $10B although private equity has spent only 4B$ on acquiring them. Who knows what went into the discussions.
Why did I leave? Because I figured my career growth is elsewhere.
One thing I learnt at yahoo is that large companies take a very long time to die . You can have a profitable career in them, even if YoY growth is slowing.
I get this sentiment, but I don't know anyone in my age group (late 20s/early 30s) that use yahoo mail either. My dad did use yahoo mail, but i'm guessing it has about 20 years left.
Interesting point but makes me wonder whether it's meaningful. There are plenty of local Chinese email providers, why would anyone choose Yahoo specifically?
Good. Similarly there are people who are happy with Yahoo and stuck with it since a long time. Overtime, all the most important/common features in Gmail are also in Yahoo.
Yahoo home page is actually very engaging (in a car wreck kind of way), and they haven't updated it much in years. I definitely believe they are doing well.
I don't think the Japanese entity and US entity have any relation to each other anymore. I think US entity divested itself of Yahoo Japan completely in 2018 or so. Yahoo Japan is now collectively owned by Softbank and Naver under some holding company (it was big news in Japan when the merger happened).
Legally being placed under the same corporate entity was a while ago. As is normal for big acquisitions, actually merging the businesses is a much slower process (allegedly part of the reasons BA's first days of operating at Heathrow Terminal 5 were a mess is that it was the first time BEA and BOAC were actually working together).
My point is just, from what I've heard the switch to Line Yahoo reflects a real integration of the businesses, not just a change of brand.
No relation to Yahoo in the US. Spun off from a previous incarnation of Yahoo in that doesn't exist anymore. In practice, they're two companies that confusingly share the same name.
