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Yahoo planning a 180 on Yahoo 360

Yahoo co-founder David Filo, who rarely gets in front of a conference crowd, chatted with John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Summit, aided by Bradley Horowitz, Yahoo vice president of product strategy. Filo is the product focused half of the founding duo. The other founder, Jerry Yang, focuses on the...

Tags: General, Personal Technology, Web Technology, web2con, Yahoo! Inc., David Filo

Blog posts 2006-11-09

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Yahoo: Does Jerry have to go?

Yahoo got its wish. Microsoft is no longer a possibility as a purchaser. The company improves short-term results by partnering on search with Google. Carl Icahn may give up on his proxy war. And the company lives to fight another day--or at least until Aug. 1 when shareholders unleash their...

Tags: Google Inc., Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Construction, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-13

What Yahoo doesn't want you to know about the Microsoft deal

After fighting against its disclosure for weeks, lawyers for Yahoo! have finally lost their battle to keep the details of a shareholder lawsuit hidden. They had released a public version on May 15th, but most of the interesting parts were deleted. Exactly what were they trying to hide? ...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Compensation, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Benefits, Human Resources, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-03

Yahoo says no to Microsoft: what's next?

News of this has just come down, less than 1/2 hour ago: that the Yahoo! Board of Directors (that's CEO Jerry Yang) has voted to reject Microsoft's $31 a share bid as inadequate. Seems as though they would take nothing under $40. The...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Terry Semel, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Corporate Governance, Internet, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-09

Jerry Yang offers sneak peak of Yahoo's future: Life!

Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang made his inaugural CES appearance, outlining how he plans to evolve his company ahead of the curve and to become an indispensable starting point for consumers' Web experience, which has become richer and more complex over the last decade. "We call this Life with...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Advertising & Promotion, E-mail, Marketing, Online Communications, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-01-07

Yahoo's Yang faces daunting to-do list; perception problems

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has a daunting to-do list and his first mission may be convincing people he's the right guy for the job. Just because investors and Yahoo observers may be happy to see Terry Semel go doesn't mean Yang is the right person for the job despite his...

Tags: Yahoo, Web Technology, Search

Blog posts 2007-06-18

Yahoo vs. Google: Why Panama is the wrong destination

Do the marketers rule at Yahoo, while the engineers rule at Google? Fred Vogelstein believes he has “empirical evidence” that such is the case.Vogelstein begins his Wired magazine piece: “Terry Semel was pissed,” in bold for emphasis.Vogelstein looks back to Yahoo vs. Google in 2002, and apparently has a pictorial...

Tags: Advertising, Search, Google, Yahoo, Google Software Applications, Yahoo! Inc.

Blog posts 2007-01-17

Yahoo's MyBlogLog purchase by the numbers

Yahoos acquisition of MyBlogLog.com is getting a lot of play in the blogosphere, perhaps too much for an acquisition reportedly valued at $10 million.Perhaps, it was Om Maliks man on the spot coverage for GigaOM that gives the story some heft. It was a nice account. Or maybe its the...

Tags: General, Web Technology, Yahoo, MyBlogLog

Blog posts 2007-01-09

Can a 'Peanut Butter manifesto' save Yahoo?

Can a 'Peanut Butter manifesto' save Yahoo?An Open Letter to Jerry Yang and David FiloCan Garlinghouse's Memo change Yahoo!? I hope so.However, there are some additional steps which must be followed in addition to the ones he mentioned. I summarize these here in an open letter to Jerry...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Peanut Butter Manifesto

Discussion threads 2006-11-18

Calacanis' AOL resignation: A new era of brutal candor for big companies?

Calacanis' AOL resignation: A new era of brutal candor for big companies?Big company managementYou don't understand the nature of big organizations. The Internet is not going to change how big organizations such as Time-Warner operate. Top management will never show candor about anything, certainly not about major personnel decisions, certainly...

Tags: Transparency, Garlinghouse, Calacanis, America Online Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-11-17

Web 2.0 Summit: The players and the products

The Web 2.0 Conference/Summit gets underway today in San Francisco, and I will be posting from there. John Battelle and Tim OReilly are hosting the pricey invitation only event, which will feature interviews with some of the high and mighty players in the Web 2.0 kingdom, such as Marc Benioff...

Tags: General, Personal Technology, Web Technology, web2con

Blog posts 2006-11-07

Google: Happy Birthday to us!

Google's homepage today features a special Google logo incoporating a birthday cake and an oversized number eight designed to celebrate "Google 8th Birthday!"According to Google's FAQ:When is Google's birthday? Google opened its doors in September 1998. The exact date when we celebrate our birthday has moved around over the years,...

Tags: Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-09-27

Why email and vacations are incompatible and always will be

Why email and vacations are incompatible and always will bePrimarily a workflow problem not a technology problemUsing RSS won't solve many of the most important problems you describe. Yes, it could relieve you of storage and subscription hassles, but it does nothing to alleviate the essential problem you describe: while...

Tags: mailbox, Sounds like people, e-mail

Discussion threads 2006-09-05