SLOWLY BUT SURELY: Yahoo! has been struggling to regain lost ground in Internet search to Google, and has been aiming for new niches under Mayer
LOS ANGELES: You've heard a lot about Yahoo's failed media ambitions – how it couldn't monetise a show like "Community," how it had to sell ads for its NFL live stream on the cheap and how even Katie Couric didn't turn things around for the struggling company.
But there's another part to the story about Yahoo's decline from Internet juggernaut to cheap acquisition target for Verizon that's just as important: Yahoo didn't just fail as a media company, but also as a tech innovator – despite at one point having all the right people working on all the right projects.
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