A video: Yahoo!: The $125B Company That Burned Itself to the Ground

This video chronicles the dramatic rise and devastating fall of the internet pioneer Yahoo. Starting as a simple web directory created by Stanford students in 1994, Yahoo soared to a $125 billion valuation during the dot-com bubble. However, a crippling identity crisis—failing to decide whether it was a search engine, a media company, or an … Read more

A video: “The rise and fall of Yahoo”

The Rise and Fall of Yahoo chronicles the history of the early internet pioneer, from its origins as a Stanford student project to its staggering $125 billion peak valuation. The video explores how Yahoo lost its dominance through a series of massive missed opportunities—including failing to buy Google and Facebook—and how a fundamental lack of … Read more

EFF presents: The Breachies 2025- The Worst, Weirdest, Most Impactful Data Breaches of the Year

I created a table from their page, but here is the source! Award Name Recipient Breach Details Date Say Something Without Saying Anything Mixpanel Analytics SDK used by apps like Ring and PornHub; breached user data from many apps (exact scope unclear); OpenAI dropped them. eff​ November 2025 We Still Told You So Discord Age … Read more

A video: “Why Yahoo Finance Still Dominates Wall Street”

  Key Insights for Why Yahoo Finance Still Dominates Wall Street by Merlin AI Corporate Decisions and Missed Opportunities – Yahoo’s executives rejected a $1 million offer for Google in 1998, believing search engines were less valuable than web portals. – In 2008, Yahoo turned down Microsoft’s offer of $44.6 billion, claiming it was undervalued, … Read more