@JaredBusch said in Verizon cuts 10,000 jobs and admits its Yahoo/AOL division is a failure:

@Dashrender said in Verizon cuts 10,000 jobs and admits its Yahoo/AOL division is a failure:

@bnrstnr said in Verizon cuts 10,000 jobs and admits its Yahoo/AOL division is a failure:

Hasn't AOL been a failure since dial-up internet was dead? like mid-1990s?

nah - really more like early 2000's, but man I sure thought so - I guess they held on because they were some sort of advertising company.

AOL was solid well into the mid 00's

It was around 2004 when I worked for the fed and they were using it for communicating in the senate.

Glad I never cared about my yahoo accounts, I let two lapse that I know of, and the third....who the hell knows....Meh, I knew they were weaksause.

LOL That company just needs to turn off all of it's servers, sell off everything and divy up the money to the shareholders!

@Dashrender said in Yahoo Caught Giving Email Contents to Government Agencies:

Can't gmail act like a Pop3 client and go get the mail? So this really doesn't keep people from using another service like gmail.

O365 does too. And any client like Thunderbird or Outlook would fix this too.

@scottalanmiller said in Yahoo Breach Hit Half Billion Users:

Attack on Yahoo hit 500 million users
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-37447016

I was wondering when it was going to be confirmed. Yahoo kept wiping their brow and saying "Man, this is going to lower our value to Verizon... how do we spin this?"

@scottalanmiller It must be regional, as it's fine here in southern Idaho. Yahoo could be down for a month and the only way I'd know, is from seeing it in news articles. lol