The Loop: Ya-Who?

Posted: January 29, 2008

Yahoo! may be in trouble. Though it has all of the name recognition in the world and was once the destination for the best stuff that the web had to offer, the search engine is hardly as popular today as Google and is being outclassed when it comes to features like free web mail. Furthermore, the company is likely to lay off a great number of its employees this year.

That doesn’t mean the Yahoo! story has reached its final chapter, but the company might not see a storybook ending. Is Yahoo! on the road to a new beginning or a slow death of irrelevancy?

To answer that question, we’ll welcome the Executive Editor for PC Magazine, Jeremy Kaplan and Dan Ackerman, Senior Editor for Cnet.

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