First, there were rumblings about internet buyers/shoppers having troubles. Then the online merchants became aware of the problem. On one of the busiest internet shopping days - a day that could add substantially to the final quarter profit picture - Yahoo stumbled:

“SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Yahoo Inc.’s hosted shopping service experienced outages Monday, preventing consumers from making purchases on what’s reputed to be one of the busiest days of the year for Internet commerce.”

link: Yahoo sees outages on heavy online shopping day

It does not inspire confidence when Yahoo cannot handle the “heavy holiday traffic”. Some merchants who use the Yahoo service are said to be re-thinking their online affiliations. There are too many dollars lost on a stumble of this magnitude.

Catherine Forsythe

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