im none too aware when it comes to big business and all its drama;...but that said, thanks to wamu , i did learn to create a sort-of "prick-ur-ears" personal-filter for anysuch news.. which may directly impact me.. and so of Yahoo... I am not REALLY following the recent accounts of the apparent faltering of the interent icon, except for the fact that yahoo owns flickr - whom hosts a shit load of my images - some of which im pretty sure don't exist anywhere else except on flickr servers..