Yahoo "Loses" $2.7B In Mysterious Mexican Yellow Pages Lawsuit

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Yahoo "Loses" $2.7B In Mysterious Mexican Yellow Pages Lawsuit

Posted by Unknown on Monday December 3, 2012 @11:16PM from the send-the-a-team dept.

An anonymous reader writes "CNN reports that a Mexico City court has ordered Yahoo to pay $2.7 billion to Worldwide Directories and Ideas Interactivas. The classified directory publisher sued Yahoo, claiming various losses and breaches involving 'contracts related to a yellow pages listings service.' Yahoo announced its intention to appeal but is saying little else about the case."

7 of 85 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

classified directory? by aneroid · 2012-12-04 00:05 · Score: 3, Funny

"classified directory" vs "classifieds directory"
Re:Well? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-04 00:48 · Score: 5, Funny

Well they pay people to post on anonymous internet forums about how they're more than just a search engine, for one.
Re:Call me a cynic... by Sulphur · 2012-12-04 01:13 · Score: 3, Funny

First the Samsung judgement, now this... its open season with litigation out there.
The information superhighway needs fences to keep the liti-gators off the road.
Re:Well? by RaceProUK · 2012-12-04 01:13 · Score: 4, Funny

Yahoo is more than just a search engine.
Like what?
An exclamation of joy.

--
No colour or religion ever stopped the bullet from a gun
Re:Does Yahoo even still exist? by Anne_Nonymous · 2012-12-04 01:32 · Score: 5, Funny

>> Yahoo is more than just a search engine.
It can also cut through these beer cans, and look, it's still sharp enough to slice these tomatoes...
Statement from Yahoo CEO by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-04 03:07 · Score: 3, Funny

"Why must we peso much?"
It's not going to happen by physlord · 2012-12-04 03:43 · Score: 3, Funny

I don't think that is the last word on the subject. Yahoo seems to be too little worried about this.

An off topic comment:
As a Mexican it's funny to read slashdoters opinions about my country. If you come here you would be surprised that there are a bunch of us with high speed internet, cars, smartphones, etc. We are not involved in shootings every day around each corner and we don't speak the same Spanish than the "mexican-americans", actually our culture is quite different. Believing in what the TV says about a country and establish prejudices based on that is simply wrong. Based on what I have seen about US citizens on the news I would assume they like to drink a lot and show their parts to strangers, they start shooting people randomly at schools, theaters or workplaces, most of them are ignorant. Do you know what makes the US different from yogurt? If you leave them both 300 years unattended, the yogurt will grow a culture.
You see?, prejudices are wrong.