I think the brand and portal &quot;product&quot; could have been saved, but I agree the brand and portal could not save the current corporate entity.<p>The brand and portal is a much smaller company than Yahoo of today and probably the current spin off should have been the original model along with some very heavy layoffs.<p>My thoughts on saving the portal product, personally were always<p>- Buy tumblr for ad sales potential
 - Buy digg.com and some smaller facebook page style properties to drive traffic and seo to news
 - Buy inside.com and essentially make that yahoo news.
 - Produce high quality streaming video news content, particularly finance.
 - Buy libsyn or podbay. With existing ad data yahoo could do targeted in-audio ads for streaming and download.
 - Double down on fantasy sports as a driver of daily visits.
 - Rebuild mail. Use it as a daily visits driver &#x2F; cross promotion opportunity with minimal or no ads.
 - Spin flickr off to employees or sell it.