Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on reviving the web’s homepage

Jim Lanzone is the CEO of Yahoo. It's basically impossible to sum up Yahoo's story over the last 25 years, but the short version is that once upon a time, Yahoo paid Google to run the search box on its website, and everything immediately went sideways. Jim calls it Yahoo's original sin. But after a long series of mergers, spinouts, and a hot, weird minute as part of Verizon Yahoo is once again an independent, privately held company — and it's growing. Yahoo Sports, Finance, and email (yes, really) are all getting bigger. But can Yahoo really take market share from Google? And with so much of both sports and finance turning into straight up gambling, does Jim have any red lines he won’t cross with two of the biggest apps on the internet?

Links: 

• Yahoo sells Engadget to Static Media | The Verge

• Yahoo sells TechCrunch to Regent | The Verge

• Yahoo Finance launches crypto partnership with Coinbase | Yahoo

• Yahoo Scout looks like more web-friendly AI search | The Verge

• Yahoo Finance launches crypto deal with Polymarket | Yahoo Finance

• Yahoo resurrects Artifact inside AI-powered news app | The Verge

• Yahoo Mail adds more AI to simplify desktop email | The Verge

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