Yahoo Dodges Questions On Hacking, Verizon Deal By Canceling Earnings Call (huffingtonpost.com)

Verizon has been growing wary of their pending $4.83 billion acquisition deal of Yahoo ever since the technology company revealed a massive data breach affecting at least 500 million of its users. Today, Yahoo canceled their earnings call to avoid talking about the incident. Huffington Post reports: The internet company announced Friday that it will not hold the customary conference call after it released its third-quarter earnings next week "due to the pending transaction with Verizon." Verizon announced in July that it had agreed to buy Yahoo for $4.8 billion. The New York Post reported last week that Verizon wanted to cut $1 billion off the acquisition price due to the hack. Verizon denied the report. Yahoo's announcement reads in part: "Due to the pending transaction with Verizon, Yahoo will not have an earnings call or webcast for its third quarter results. Concurrently with release of its financial results, supplemental financial information will also be posted on the Company's Investor Relations website at investor.yahoo.net.

Comments

She's fleeing the interview!

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

I can see Marissa running out the door of the ramshackle Yahoo HQ and another middle-aged midwestern woman running after her shouting "she's fleeing the interview!"

And yes, there's a woodchipper scene later.

IT'S A TRAP!!!

[ELCouz]

Get out of there....fast!

Investor confidence restored!

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

If the situation is so bad that they can't even maintain an air of forced cheer for the duration of an earnings call; it must be really, really, grim. Denying the seriousness of the situation is a basic managerial skill.

Re:Investor confidence restored!

[rtb61]

When you hire an M&M you are not hiring skill but a well marketed illusion, of course once you have hired the illusion, their skill becomes all too apparent in it's total lack. Apparantly the one and only plan, force all the staff into the office, get them talking, steal their ideas and call them mine (apparently the M&Ms practice at Google, hence the demotion).

Re:Marissa meyer, lol

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear Slashdot, when I clicked the link it said there were 7 comments. When I got in and loaded all comments (browsing at -1) I see 5 comments. Are you deleting comments.

Re:Ignore the Press: The Hillary Clinton Strategy

[Archangel Michael]

Haven't you been paying attention to the Wikileaks? The press is part of the Hillary Campaign staff.

Hey, three more Clinton supporters said Trump groped them. Are you tired of Hillary and Donald yet?

Vote Gary Johnson.

Heh.

[ZenShadow]

And nobody noticed.

Active User Stats

[cdxta]

Maybe they are busy updating their active user statistics that Verizon probably requested just before the hack news came out. Look at all these active accounts... :)

Re:Active User Stats

[naughtynaughty]

They keep accounts active by letting hackers use them

Yoga balls don't count

[mschaffer]

Dont' confuse "balls" for sheer incompetence.

Re: Marissa meyer, lol

[sittingnut]

obviously somebody at /. does not get the humor on g@y nigg@r comments that has littered the threads. bet they never heard of the movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt02... either.
even this non lame comment about a real movie and comments encountered a lameness filter and i had to use @.

hehehe

[nikkipolya]

Why isn't this being covered on Yahoo news? This is why the Yahoo portal sucks...

Re:LOL Gary

[Archangel Michael]

Who you gonna vote for? Criminal or the other Criminal?