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Feb
Yahoo Accounting is one of the most sought after products in the industry. .5 6.5 years I had the privilege of working in it. Recently, I engaged in an interesting StackOverflow debate over Yahoo Finance's APIs "down" or "changed". Now, admittedly, on the surface, this sounds like a bad move for Yahoo. In fact, people have theories around the time of Yahoo's acquisition and the API's being shut down (or changed). These are certainly not. Yahoo accounting replaced the old API with a new one that requires a certain amount of authentication. The explanation for this change is quite simple…