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Yahoo "Loses" $2.7B In Mysterious Mexican Yellow Pages Lawsuit
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."
http://investor.yahoo.net/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=724306/
I want a list of atrocities done in your name - Recoil
Yahoo is more than just a search engine.
"Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time."
"classified directory" vs "classifieds directory"
Someone just sufficiently far removed from the judge made a bet on Yahoo's shares falling just about this time.
Isn't 2.7Bn larger than the combined market value of every yellow pages business in the world combined? Might anyone know how the Judge came up with a figure this large?
You may find that the San Sebastian Data Center has been stripped down to the barest minimum of equipment.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
The government sells marijuana for "profits"? When they're already several trillion dollars in debt and don't seem to give a fuck? Okay.
which is totally what she said
Always seems to be the search behind search spoofing malware I have to clean up from the PCs of family and friends.
Well they pay people to post on anonymous internet forums about how they're more than just a search engine, for one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Japan
http://www.yahoo.co.jp/
Yahoo is actually really big over there. eBay exists, but may as well not: Yahoo! Auctions is overwhelmingly dominant in online auctions. Yahoo! Shopping takes the role of Amazon.com. (Amazon itself has a presence also, and it isn't too shabby.) And Yahoo! Japan is also a broadband provider with a lot of mindshare.
They've diversified. Wisely so.
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.
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
the US Govt and mainstream media blather on about terrorists half-way around the world in the middle-east yet ignore the drug smuggling terrorists just south of the border
And yet I've read dozens and dozens of stories about them from the "mainstream media" for some time now. Maybe you just have blinders on?
"Donde esta el restaurante de pizza?" Oh, fuck me, I'll just Google it.
>> 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...
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Are they sure that's dollars and not pesos?
Began to suspect it was a Ronco product when those riveting Kardashian stories started popping up on my email home page...
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Read the whole thread for context.
And if they ignore the ruling what happens? Just because a court in some country rules against you doesn't necessarily mean that there's any consequence.
From one of the other links posted earlier:
"he 49th Civil Court of the Federal District of Mexico City has entered a non-final judgment of U.S. $2.7 billion against Yahoo! Inc. and Yahoo de Mexico, S.A. de C.V.
I don't exactly know why there needs to be a Yahoo de Mexico, but that puts them on the hook for whatever amount the corrupt Mexican court wants to decide.
Well, of course. If the U.S. were to call off its war on drugs, the extreme profit motive would cease. Remember how the U.S. Col. Oliver North funded several mini-wars by allowing the crack epidemic of the 1980's, while the president and his wife told kids to ''Just say no to drugs'? Drugs are illegal because it is more profitable that way.
It isn't the US... The EU tribunals get bored periodically and rake Google and Microsoft over the coals every so often since it makes good press for them ("evil foreign company gets hauled in for another round of justice".) Same old xenophobic shit the EU has been doing, but just now spread across the pond.
Might be nice if countries cleaned their own house, and this applies to the Yanks as well.
Is yahoo still relevant? I though yahoo had just become a none MS face for bing.When will people learn and just use Google.
Perhaps not relevant in search like they used to be, They do have some other popular products such as Flickr, an instant messaging product, and a few other things.
Not too clear to me why I cannot question the integrity of a foreign court, just because my own court system has done some questionable things.
I can question the integrity of a foreign court, just as I can question the integrity of a domestic court. You dont get to decide what I can question, thanks.
"Why must we peso much?"
In most countries a business is required to establish a local legal entity to operate within it's borders. At a bare minimum most nations require the appointment of a registered agent based in the country. This is intended to protect local citizens and businesses from businesses based in other countries that do business within their borders. It is also important for complying with local laws and regulations, and payment of taxes applicable to business carried out within their borders. If you are harmed by a foreign business you have a much harder time suing them or collecting judgments if they do not have a local presence.
In theory there is some protection for the foreign business in that the national legal entity functions as a subsidiary of the foreign-owned parent company. A litigant might be able to take all assets owned by the national legal entity, but face a much harder time collecting from the parent company based in another country.
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.
This shady yellow pages outfit called Yahoo! and said "We just want to confirm that you want to continue your listing in the Yellow Pages. Now I'm going to get a third party verifier on the phone; don't say anything but yes when I ask the questions"
That's around $208,457 USD.
Because he said so. He has declared himself "King of teh internets".
Therefore you must post as he decrees.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
With a number that high It's hard not to view this as a ploy to fill mexicos pockets. And the corrupt mexican officials of course. Most likely the latter since that wouldnt dent their debt. "Heeeeey yahoo my friend...those are real nicr classifieds...be a shame if something terrible were to happen to them"
I use yahoo local to find businesses and yahoo finance to watch stocks and funds, much better than competitors
Indeed.
History of Google vs Yahoo homepage over the years ...
http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/443/yahoovsgoogle1996to2005ys4.png
Google focused on doing one thing extremely well. Yahoo is a perfect example of the bloated web 2.0 in search of monetization.
Well, yeah, its a civil case between two private companies in a Mexican court. Even if the non-final verdict does become final and Yahoo! fully complies with it, then Mexico won't get that money -- the plaintiffs, Worldwide Directories SA de CV and Ideas Interactivas SA de CV, would get the money.
Yahoo is more than just a search engine.
Yahoo is less than just a search engine
FTFY.
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes" - Winston Churchill
It's also a museum of web design from the "portal era".
0 1 - just my two bits
Bear with me here ...
Japanese syllables generally start with a consonant and end with a vowel, or are a vowel alone. Thus "McDonalds" is something like "ma ku do na ru do" and a Big Mac is a biggu makku.
For some reason, they used the American pronunciation of "Mexico" (meks sih ko) as the basis for their word, which comes out as "may kee shi ko". But the Spanish pronunciation "may hee ko" copies over almost perfectly into Japanese. It's a shame they copied the wrong pronunciation.
I suppose the proper pronunciation could be coming into vogue. It ought to be.
But there's your Japanese Mexico USA connection.
Infuriate left and right
Too late -- several, scratch that, a gazillion people already have the patent on internet patents. Now if they all get busy and start suing each other, they won't have time to sue anybody doing real work.
Infuriate left and right