A company should do what it can to make a return for its shareholders.  If it finds that its original mission is failing, what&#x27;s wrong with switching to something else that they&#x27;ve found, maybe by accident, is highly profitable?<p>If the shareholders don&#x27;t like it, they can sell their shares and try investing in another crappy internet portal that burns money.  Shareholders have no right to complain about their companies&#x27; actions AFAIC; if you don&#x27;t like the way the company is run, sell your shares.  You&#x27;re not the owner of the company when you own 1-millionth or whatever of it.  The only people who have a right to push for a change in the corporate direction are the members of the board of directors.  Everyone else is nothing more than in investor, basically just a gambler.