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Services offered by yahoo are similarly to its competitors so product differentiation is difficult. 3. Yahoo faces the problem of low growth in various products which it offered. 4. Offering so many products that cause diversion in attention. Opportunities 1. Strong internet based platform. 2. Opportunity to increase in market share through merger or partnership with other companies like yahoo. 3. Global expansion especially in Asian countries to reduce its operational expenses. 4. Need to capture high growth market Threat 1. Flat economics conditions 2.

Yahoo should adopt such technologies that it can create innovative products. 3. Google have surpassed yahoo in term of revenues and cash flow 4. Changing market trend and consumer preferences.. Financial analysis. From 2008 to 2009 revenue increased to 3. 4 to 7. 2 billion however the net income is decreased by 36%. This is due to the increase in administrative and product development expenses. Furthermore in the opening quarter of 2009 the company wows heavy down fall in profits which lead to eventually downsize of approximately 3300 employees. Which also lead yahoo to close its third video property maven networks. It further plan to close its sides like yahoo 360 degree. Yahoo’s performance reflects low growth. Yahoo revenues come from products that are low growth cash cows. The balance scorecard indicates that there could be troubles ahead for the company. The financial portion of this analysis is the least Yahoo Soot Analysis By historians cline once Yahoo’s cash cow products decline.

Yahoo’s market orientation is below industry standards. Final Recommendations and conclusions If the company continues on its current path Yahoo will fail. To prevent further decline Yahoo must define its core competencies and excise those services that are not core competencies from its business. What is causing Yahoo to decline is not its pursuit a multitude of internet services but Yahoo undisciplined growth and lack of strategic growth Yahoo should reshape itself into a news service provider.

Yahoo Inc. will disclose details this week of a data breach that compromised the data of several hundred million users, technology news site Recode reported on Thursday, citing unnamed sources familiar with the company’s plan.

Reuters was not able to immediately confirm the report.

It was not clear how such a disclosure might affect Yahoo’s plan to sell its email service and other core internet properties to Verizon Communications Inc. for $4.8 billion.

Yahoo might have to force users to reset their passwords, the Recode report said, citing unnamed sources.

The report follows an Aug. 1 story in the technology news site, Motherboard, that said a cyber criminal known as Peace was selling the data of about 200 million Yahoo users, but did not confirm its authenticity.

The Motherboard report was published a week after Verizon announced its deal with Yahoo.

Peace was selling that batch of data on the 200 million Yahoo users for 3 bitcoin, or around $1,860, according to Motherboard. The possibly compromised data includes user names, birth dates, some backup email addresses and scrambled passwords, Motherboard said.

(Reporting by Jim Finkle in Boston and Aishwarya Venugopal in Bengaluru; Editing by Ted Kerr and Bernadette Baum)

Yahoo was found in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, but was incorporated in March 1995. Yahoo Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation with its headquarters in California. “Yahoo Inc. is a leading global Internet communications, commerce and media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services to more than 345 million individuals each month worldwide. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, www.yahoo.com is the leading guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household and business user reach. Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and reaches the largest audience worldwide.

The company also provides online business and enterprise services designed to enhance the productivity and Web presence of Yahoo!’s clients. These services include Corporate Yahoo!, a popular customized enterprise portal solution; audio and video streaming; store hosting and management; and Web site tools and services.” The word “Yahoo” comes from the words, “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle”. Yahoo is provided in more the 20 languages as for a now. Timeline entering China

Yahoo enters the Chinese internet market in the year 1998, three years after Yahoo was incorporated. Its main purposed when entering China was to provide the service of a search engine. It was not very easy, and they had many troubles during these periods, until the year 2005. In October 2005, Yahoo China was acquired by Alibaba, but still running under the name of Yahoo. Yahoo had many troubles entering the Chinese internet due to the fact that internet in China is strictly controlled by the government.

This meant that Yahoo has to restructure many uncensored things that it provided to the public. In November 2005, former CEO of Alibaba Ma Yun, stated that Yahoo China meant in China search engine. This are heavy words to say, because basically what he wanted the people to understand is that Yahoo China was basically going to be the only search engine used in China. Financials in regards of entering China

Yahoo paid U$1 billion to Alibaba for the purposed to be invested in the search engine business. Later on in the year 2012 after Yahoo Inc. was having financial problems, Alibaba acquired one half of stake, with a value of U$7.1 billion. This transaction had the result of the balance ownership structure the gives the chance to Alibaba to take Yahoo to another level of a public company in the future. For Yahoo is has been difficult to make a profit of its investment since Alibaba is not publicity traded, even though it is the largest e-commerce market in China.

The  and  aren’t going to go away no matter how much CEO Marissa Mayer wants them to. For users trying to flee the service, the beleaguered internet company is making it rather difficult. That’s because since the beginning of the month, the company has disabled email forwarding according to . From the sounds of it, though, it’s just for folks who’ve recently tried the feature, not people who’ve had it set up prior.

From : “Automatic forwarding sends a copy of incoming messages from one account to another. This feature is currently under development. While we work to improve it, we’ve temporarily disabled the ability to turn on Mail Forwarding for new forwarding addresses. If you’ve already enabled Mail Forwarding in the past, your email will continue to forward to the address you previously configured.”

Below it is an option to indicate whether or not the help note was indeed helpful. Something tells me there will be an awful lot of “no” votes on this.

AP‘s sources say that the timing is pretty suspicious and that email forwarding has been a “basic concept for 15 years for just about every email provider out there.” What’s more,  that British Telecoms customers (BT uses Yahoo for email) haven’t been able to setup email forwarding or even delete their accounts. The error message there? “Sorry, the delete feature is currently unavailable. This feature will become available by the end of September,” . So, September 2017?

We’ve reached out to Yahoo for more information and will update this post should the company respond.

Verizon Communications is pressing for a $1 billion discount off its pending $4.8 billion agreement to buy Yahoo, the New York Post reported, citing sources.

The Yahoo deal team is pushing back hard against any attempts to negotiate the price down, the paper said. 

Last month Yahoo said at least 500 million of its accounts were hacked in 2014 and in a statement Verizon said it had been made aware of the breach immediately but had limited information about the matter.

U.S. senators accused Yahoo of “unacceptable” delay in discovering the hack and urged the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate whether Yahoo and its senior executives fulfilled obligations to inform investors and the public about the hacking attack.

Verizon and Yahoo both declined to comment.

In July, Verizon agreed to buy Yahoo Inc.’s core internet properties for $4.83 billion in cash, setting the stage for a big new internet push by the telecom giant.

(Reporting by Vishal Sridhar in Bengaluru; Editing by Sandra Maler)