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- It's still #5 in the Alexa website ranks. That's HUGE. Huge huge huge.

- Trumblr is still huge (arguably mismanaged but still huge)

- Their fantasy football is the largest in the world as far as I can tell. Huge user base.

- Yahoo mail is also huge.

Their core strength is their hugely popular front page and their web applications. Sorta similar to Google in a way. Or even Microsoft and some of its properties. Arguably they could focus on these web products and continue making cash though they'd likely need to downsize a bit.



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