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Four Dying Silicon Valley Companies

Well said.


On Dec 21 01:31 PM Teutonic Knight wrote:

> I disagree with the author on his assessment about Yahoo. Yahoo has
> no debt and if you log onto their site you would still see a steaming
> crowd of blogs, answers to posted questions, advertisers alike.<br/>
>
> In other words, the old rule of thumb is the traffic -- the party
> is still on. Check onto Aol. Over there advertisements are scanty,
> the financial site is till "Beta" and had been "Beta" for months,
> if not years. AOL's barn door been open and the best brains been
> gone for years.
>
> And what is this Crap that Microsoft is the White Knight of sorts?
> In my view, and come back in a couple of years to prove that I am
> wrong, Microsoft is already a "Yesterday's Company". Recall AOL was
> a $250B company a few years ago? Look at Microsoft's equity market
> value today, $200B+, right? It has the same look and feel as a Christmas
> turkey ready to be carved down.
>
> Sorry for being heuristic. I am not scholar and academician. I left
> the articulation and polishing to them.
>