So, engineers and managers leaving and failure to monetize Asian assets.
I didn't know the engineers and managers cared. Ms. Bartz really misunderstood that point.
I'm three letters shy of being an MBA, but it seems to me that Yahoo! is in its straits because it didn't adapt to the 1-2 disruption of Google and mobile. Ms. Bartz's tactical decisions to winnow off experimental but profitless ventures in order to focus on the main profit centers, while popular with Wall Street, was doubling down on past successes.
Which is as easy for me to say as it is for an analyst to say that some buyer can come along and monetize those Asian assets.
Any way, best wishes to all involved. And, how lucky is Ballmer? He almost paid 45 billion for Yahoo! (I think the "!", alone, was going to cost 3.7b), and was nigh-on petulant when people said no to his money.
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