Is yahoo shutting down?

Question

HI IS YAHOO SHUTTING DOWN

Answer 1

no.

Answer 2

This has been an ongoing news since April of 2001. Here is an excerpt from about.com article regarding the closure of Yahoo:

"New Internet rumors get started every day. This is just the latest one."

A similar rumor turned up in Usenet discussions in March but apparently wasn't timely enough to capture the public's fancy. This newer version, first sighted on April 27, 2001 has shot from modem to modem faster than a speeding bullet:

A quoted material described as a "memo" doesn't read like a memo at all, but rather like an excerpt from a news story — a news story that never existed. Plenty of recent articles have referred to Yahoo's financial woes and intention to move in the direction of fee-based services  to generate more revenue, but none have forecast the closure of existing parts of the service to cut costs. (UPDATE: It has been discovered that part of the quoted text — excluding the final sentence, "They will be closed" — came from a New York Times article dated April 12, 2001. The addition of the final, ersatz sentence by the unknown author of this email rumor made the passage appear to say the opposite of what it actually said.)

In short, Yahoo's future plans revolve around taking better advantage of existing traffic, not eliminating it. Anything you hear to the contrary is folklore.

So to ease your mind, Yahoo is not ever going to close.  They are as solid as the Rock of Gibraltar. They are financially stable. They have so much revenue coming from advertisers.Time Spent Per Website Favors Yahoo Over Google. With the company so far out in front of Google in terms of time spent on Yahoo properties, it comes down to monetization -- Yahoo has the audience

Answer 3

I'm not sure ... with all the unfixed problems I (and many others from what I am seeing) have been having with their buggy software .... something seems to be wrong .....  are they drifting into Enron territory ???

Answer 4

NO -- you must have gotten that fake email, right?

Answer 5

Doubt it, actually it looks more like yahoo is expanding.

Answer 6

No, Yahoo is not shutting down. They are expanding there news division..and in May, your email will be unlimited, in other words, you will be able to leave emails on your account, and will not have to delete any of them. You can store stuff on your email account, it will be unlimited..Story about expanding there news division...Good Luck>>

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