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Charging Does Help Yahoo Make A Profit

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-duh dept.

Meshach writes "The globe and mail has an article about how yahoo is starting to charge for their email service. Payment is not mandatory but if you don't pay you have many restrictions on your accont. It says that while many are angry about the change enough people are paying that it is helping Yahoo rebound from their slump. This seems like a recent trend in e-business." The conventional wisdom around web stuff that's been free, but converts to pay is that "they die off, no one wants to use it anymore etc etc", but I think what people fail to realize is that for many businesses, less people is *just fine*, if those people are paying.

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  1. Re:Finally by rufo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I still want to find out what the underwear gnomes do for step two.

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  2. No longer just spelling by lelitsch · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Hemos, please get a quintuple espresso, read the following sentence out loud, see if you can understand it yourself, and rewrite in something approximating English:

    "The conventional wisdom around web stuff that's been free, but converts to much pay is that "they die off, no one wants to use it anymore etc etc", but I think what people fail to realize is that for many business, less people is *just fine*, if those people are paying. "

  3. Re:Slightly Offtopic: What does a /. sub get you? by jasonditz · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Anyone know what percentage of the $20,000,000+ that VA had in revenue in the past year comes from slashdot donations?