Yes, but it's a sign of a company in decline. Research is what keeps you at the forefront of your industry- at this point no-one is expecting Yahoo to do that, but it's still sad.
Not always. It's extremely hard to integrate an internal R&D department into a product pipeline. Id your research organization is detached from the rest of the company, its work will not be as readily integrated into the products other divisions make.
Comments
Yahoo has more pressing issues than research. A shift of focus away from research was to be expected after the last reorg.
Yes, but it's a sign of a company in decline. Research is what keeps you at the forefront of your industry- at this point no-one is expecting Yahoo to do that, but it's still sad.
Not always. It's extremely hard to integrate an internal R&D department into a product pipeline. Id your research organization is detached from the rest of the company, its work will not be as readily integrated into the products other divisions make.